Executive Board

Thomas Rabe

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bertelsmann and Chief Executive Officer of RTL Group

* August 06, 1965

Career Milestones

Since April 2019
Chief Executive Officer
RTL Group, Luxembourg

Since January 2012
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Bertelsmann, Gütersloh

January 2006
Chief Financial Officer
Bertelsmann AG, Gütersloh, until 2008 also Head of Bertelsmann Music Group

2000
Chief Financial Officer
RTL Group, Luxembourg

1996
Clearstream International
after 1998: Member of the Board of Directors,
Chief Financial Officer

1993
Head of Acquisitions
Beteiligungsgesellschaft Neue Länder, Berlin

1993
Director Controlling
Treuhandanstalt, Berlin

1991
Treuhandanstalt, Berlin

1990
Associate at the Forrester Norall & Sutton law firm (now White & Case), Brussels

1989
Directorate-General for Financial Institutions and Corporate Law
European Commission, Brussels

Education

University of Cologne
Doctoral Studies
Doctor of Economics (Dr. rer. pol.)

RWTH Aachen / University of Cologne
Economics Department
Diplom-Kaufmann (MBA)

Ecole Européenne, Brussels