Marc Al-Hames' appointment to the Board of Hubert Burda Media takes effect from January 1, 2023. His areas of responsibility include BurdaCommerce (e.g. Cyberport, Computeruniverse and Silkes Weinkeller), HolidayCheck, New Work SE, BurdaNext, which manages majority shareholdings in digital platform companies (e.g. Nebenan.de and Cliqz), and investment arm BurdaPrincipal Investments. Since June 1, 2025, he acts as CEO of Burda Equity.

Al-Hames joined Burda in 2011, as Head of Corporate Development and Member of the Management Board at Tomorrow Focus AG, now HolidayCheck Group AG. From 2013, he was managing director of Cliqz GmbH, a majority-owned subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media, for seven years. From 2020 to 2024, he was CEO of the Group subsidiary HolidayCheck Group AG. Before joining Burda, he was project manager at McKinsey & Company.

Holger Eckstein studied economics at the University of Duisburg. He then obtained his Master of Business Administration from Indiana University, Pennsylvania (USA). He also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.

From 1990 to 1995, Eckstein worked in Corporate Controlling/Mergers & Acquisitions at the chemicals and pharmaceutical company Hoechst AG. He then joined Hubert Burda Media as Director Corporate Controlling. Six years later, he became managing director of Burda Services. Eckstein was appointed to the Executive Board of Hubert Burda Media in 2009 and has been CFO of Burda Equity and Burda Media since 1 June 2025.

Philipp Welte was born in 1962 and trained as a newspaper journalist. After studying political science and empirical cultural studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, he became a freelance journalist. In 1992, he moved to Leipzig to work at MDR, a public service broadcaster that was being developed as part of the ARD network.

He joined Hubert Burda Media in 1994 as head of communications. In late 1998, as managing director, he assumed responsibility for Bunte magazine. It was in this capacity that he launched the German edition of InStyle in 1999, the world’s first franchise of the successful US brand. He also founded the Burda People Group, which encompassed the STARnetONE entertainment unit in Berlin – the unit that produces Bambi, Europe’s most important media award.

In late 2006, Welte moved to Axel Springer, where he was appointed CEO of Bild T-Online AG in 2007 and became responsible for what is now Bild.de. In early 2008, he was named Chief Marketing Officer and managed Axel Springer Media Impact, the emerging multi-channel marketer. At the end of 2008, he was appointed to the Hubert Burda Media management board and has been in charge of the corporation’s national publishing business ever since. With the division of the Group into two strategic pillars as of June 1, 2025, Philipp Welte remains operationally responsible for the publishing business, which will be merged into Burda Media, until his appointment to the Board of Directors.