Dr. Michael Sturm (41) has been Head of Marketing Communication, Technical Fairs, at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH since 1 April 2006. In this position, he is responsible for the national and international PR, ...

... advertising and online communication activities for the Light+Building, ISH, The Design Annual, IFFA, Texcare International, Material Vision, Fireprotec and Automechanika fairs.

Sturm succeeds Iris Jeglitza-Moshage who has been Vice President, Technical Fairs, since the beginning of the year following a period in an acting capacity.

A graduate in political science and a trained business journalist, Sturm joined Messe Frankfurt at the end of 1999 and, most recently, worked in the Corporate Communication Department as a press officer and online journalist. Before joining Messe Frankfurt, he was a member of the editorial staff of 'Horizont' magazine (Deutscher Fachverlag).