Marc Al-Hames will join the Hubert Burda Media Management Board on January 1, 2023. In personal union, he will remain CEO of the Holidaycheck Group until further notice.
Marc Al-Hames (44) will join the Hubert Burda Media Management Board on January 1, 2023. His area of responsibility includes BurdaCommerce (currently including Cyberport, Computeruniverse), BurdaNext, which holds majority stakes in digital platform companies (currently Nebenan.de), and the service provider Burda Digital Systems.
“In the last eleven years, I have seen how diverse and how successful Burda is. I am all the happier to be able to help shape the company even more as a member of the Management Board. I would like to thank the Board of Directors and Martin Weiss for their trust,” said Marc Al-Hames.
Marc Al-Hames, who has been with Burda since 2011, will remain CEO of the Holidaycheck Group until further notice. Marc Al-Hames has been running the travel platform since 2020 and, together with his team, has made it profitable in the long term after Corona by diversifying the business models and significantly reducing the cost basis.
As Managing Director of Cliqz GmbH, together with Jean-Paul Schmetz, he launched a new type of browser and search offering that gave people excellent internet experiences with full control over their own data. In 2021, Cliqz search technology was incorporated into the US browser Brave. Cliqz owned Ghostery (USA), My Offrz (personalized internet advertising, today at BurdaForward) and the stake in the Vietnamese search technology provider Coccoc.
Note: BurdaForward, to which FOCUS Online also belongs, is part of the Hubert Burda Media group.
Activists of the climate protection protest group “Last Generation” have carried out an attack on a valuable painting by the French impressionist Claude Monet in Potsdam’s Barberini Museum. A picture from the series “Les Meules” (grainstacks) was sprayed with a viscous mass on Sunday, reported museum spokeswoman Carolin Stranz.
The way is clear for the controversial Chinese participation in a container terminal in the port of Hamburg. As the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reports, the six ministries that had previously rejected the deal have given up their resistance and agreed on a compromise. Experts warn of the deal.
On Friday evening, a plane carrying five German passengers en route from Mexico to Limón province crashed. McFit founder Rainer Schaller and his family were probably on board. The family is said to have been fully conscious when the crash occurred, according to a media report. In addition, the machine had been on the ground three months earlier.
