Koelnmesse names CEO

-- Casual Living, 3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Gerald Böse, 46, was named CEO of the Koelnmesse executive board during a Feb. 7 meeting of the supervisory board and shareholders. Now executive director at Karlsruher Messe- and Kongress-GmbH, Böse will begin work in his new post in Cologne by April 1.

Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma, chairman of the committees, thanked Herbert Marner, who has led the company since April 2007, his management colleagues and the entire Koelnmesse team, which sponsors the Spoga+Gafa tradeshow among others. As a member of the Koelnmesse GmbH executive board, Marner will once again concentrate on the company’s finances.