Ulrich Heckenberger has been managing Valiton since 2012 and was previously responsible for e-commerce at Burda Digital Systems. Before this, he spent many years at Accenture working for the telecommunications and media industry, most recently as partner.

Gerhard Thomas joined Burda Digital Systems GmbH, the internal IT service provider of the Hubert Burda Media, as managing director in January 2005. In addition, he founded the IT service provider Valiton in 2008 with a focus on e-commerce.

Gerhard Thomas previously held management positions at Ploenzke Informatik (1987-1992) and SerCon (1992-1994). In his last position at Accenture (1995-2005), he was responsible for the development of market entry strategies as partner (media and entertainment).