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词条 Thomas Rabe (manager)
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Other activities

  4. Personal life

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use American English|date=March 2017}}{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}}Thomas Rabe (born August 6, 1965, in Luxembourg) is a German manager.[1] In 2006, he was appointed to the Bertelsmann executive board, of which he has been chairman and chief executive officer since 2012.[2][3] Under his leadership, the Group has become more international, more digital and more diversified.[4][5] In particular, he has advanced the business with music rights and the educational division.[6] Additionally, Rabe was appointed chief executive officer of RTL Group in 2019.[7]

Early life and education

Rabe was born in 1965 in Luxembourg and grew up in Brussels,[8][9] where his father worked as a civil servant in the European Coal and Steel Community from 1968.[10] He attended the European School and as a youth was a bass player in a punk band.[11] After completing his German baccalaureate (Abitur), Rabe studied Business and Economics at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Cologne.[11] After earning a degree in business administration in 1989, he obtained his doctorate in economics, with a doctoral thesis on "Liberalization and Deregulation in the European Single Market for Insurance" in 1995.[12]

In addition to his native language German, Rabe speaks English, French, Dutch and Spanish.[13]

Career

Rabe began his career at the European Commission in Brussels. At the Commission, from 1989 he worked in the Directorate-General for Financial Institutions and Corporate Law.[10] One year later, he joined his supervisor in moving to the law firm Forrester, Norall & Sutton,[14] which today belongs to White & Case.[15] There he managed client accounts from the European Union, the United States and Japan.[14] In 1991, Rabe was employed by the Treuhand agency in Berlin.[16] In this capacity, among other responsibilities, he was in charge of the privatization of the assets of the Ministry for State Security and the National People's Army of the former GDR.[17] In 1993, he was promoted to head of the Controlling Department.[11] Subsequently, Rabe was involved as head of acquisitions at the Beteiligungsgesellschaft Neue Länder investment agency of the Association of German Banks (BdB),[12] in investing DM 400 million in East German companies.[17] After earning his Ph.D., in 1996 Rabe was hired as office head of the CEO of the Luxembourg financial service provider, Cedel International.[14][17] He held additional positions there before being appointed chief financial officer in 1998.[18] In subsequent years, he prepared the merger of Cedel International with Deutsche Börse Clearing into Clearstream.[17]

In 2000, Rabe joined RTL Group as CFO.[12] Here, he was additionally responsible for strategy and the Luxembourg television and radio business.[19] Five years later, Bertelsmann brought him back to Gütersloh.[20][21][22] Rabe was appointed as the Group's CFO on January 1, 2006.[23] At the same time, he was responsible for the Bertelsmann Music Group until 2008.[12] Among other activities, Rabe also negotiated the buyback of shares from Groupe Bruxelles Lambert to prevent Bertelsmann from going public.[24][25] In addition, the Group established its own investment fund in Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.[26] Later, Rabe organized the return of Bertelsmann into the music business.[27] His recruitment of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. as an investor in BMG Rights Management was seen as a key decision for the music company's future development.[1]

Around 2009 Rabe was reportedly considered as future CEO of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group and of the Franz Haniel & Cie. investment holding,[28] but Rabe ultimately stayed with Bertelsmann.[29][30]

CEO of Bertelsmann, 2012–present

After Hartmut Ostrowski announced his retirement as chairman and CEO in 2011,[31] Rabe was declared his successor, effective January 1, 2012.[32][33] With Rabe's appointment, Bertelsmann ushered in a strategy change towards stronger growth.[34][35][36] Under his leadership, Bertelsmann experienced increased growth into Brazil, China, and India, and consolidated this development by bundling these activities in the Bertelsmann Investments division.[37][38] Also, Rabe managed to complete the merger of Penguin Books with Random House to create the world's largest trade book publisher, and the purchase of the remaining shares in Gruner + Jahr.[39][40] He built the education division into an additional pillar of the business,[41][42] which today operates as the Bertelsmann Education Group.[43] He consolidated the printing operations into the Bertelsmann Printing Group.[44] Thus, by 2016, he had expanded the number of corporate divisions to eight.[45][46]

Rabe's contract as chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann's executive board runs until 2021.[47][48] As CEO of RTL Group, he oversees the company's TV unit;[49] he is a member of the board of directors of Penguin Random House, among others.[50]

Other activities

Corporate boards
  • Adidas, Member of the Supervisory Board (subject to Adidas annual general meeting in May 2019)[51]
  • Penguin Random House, Chairman of the Supervisory Board (since 2018)
  • Gruner + Jahr, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2012)
  • RTL Group, Chief Executive Officer (since 2019) and Member of the Board of Directors (since 2012)[49]
  • Symrise, Chairman of the Supervisory Board (since 2011)[52][53]
  • Springer Science+Business Media, Member of Supervisory Board (since 2010)
Non-profit boards
  • Federation of German Industries (BDI), Member of the Presidium (2017-2018)[54]
  • Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche (BBUG), Member of the Board of Trustees[55]

Personal life

Rabe lives in Gütersloh and Berlin and is married to a neurologist.[56][57] The couple collects modern art and, in 2015, purchased a Henry van de Velde-designed villa in Tervuren near Brussels.[58]

Rabe is a member of the Catholic fraternity AV Hansea-Berlin zu Köln.[59]

References

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11. ^1 {{cite web|language=de|url=http://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000028906|title=Thomas Rabe|website=Internationales Biographisches Archiv|publisher=Munzinger|date={{date|2015-02-10|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-02-17|mdy}}}}
12. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.bertelsmann.com/company/management/executive-board/|title=Thomas Rabe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bertelsmann|publisher=Bertelsmann|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
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27. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article4083341/Bertelsmann-kehrt-zurueck-ins-Musikgeschaeft.html|title=Bertelsmann kehrt zurück ins Musikgeschäft|website=Die Welt|date={{date|2009-07-08|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
28. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Dünne Luft|newspaper=WirtschaftsWoche|date={{date|2009-06-15|mdy}}}}
29. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/finanzvorstand-thomas-rabe-der-scharf-rechnende-musiker-bleibt-bei-bertelsmann-1572206.html|title=Der scharf rechnende Musiker bleibt bei Bertelsmann|website=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|date={{date|2011-01-22|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
30. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=http://www.zeit.de/2014/09/bertelsmann-chef-thomas-rabe|title=Ich bin nicht auf der Durchreise|website=Die Zeit|date={{date|2014-02-20|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
31. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Ostrowski macht Platz|newspaper=Neue Westfälische|date={{date|2011-10-11|mdy}}}}
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33. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Voll auf Angriff|date={{date|2011-10-17|mdy}}|newspaper=Der Spiegel|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-81015468.html|access-date={{date|2017-01-17|mdy}}}}
34. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Thomas Rabe sucht das Filet|newspaper=Die Zeit|date={{date|2012-09-06|mdy}}}}
35. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Zurück zu alter Größe|newspaper=Horizont|date={{date|2011-10-13|mdy}}}}
36. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Der Hoffnungsträger|newspaper=Welt am Sonntag|date={{date|2011-10-16|mdy}}}}
37. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Globales Wachstum als Ziel|newspaper=Westfalen-Blatt|date={{date|2012-02-13|mdy}}}}
38. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Shobhna Mohn sorgt für Wachstum|newspaper=Neue Westfälische|date={{date|2016-12-03|mdy}}}}
39. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/buchverlag-bertelsmann-fusioniert-random-house-mit-penguin-a-863940.html|title=Bertelsmann schmiedet weltgrößten Buchverlag|website=Spiegel Online|date={{date|2012-10-29|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
40. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Bertelsmann übernimmt Gruner + Jahr komplett|newspaper=Die Welt|date={{date|2014-10-07|mdy}}}}
41. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/wirtschaft_nt/article126228347/Bertelsmann-setzt-auf-Bildung.html|title=Bertelsmann setzt auf Bildung|website=Die Welt|date={{date|2014-03-26|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
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43. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-neue_unternehmenseinheit_gegruendet.1024973.html|title=Bertelsmann Education Group bündelt Bildungsgeschäfte|website=Börsenblatt|date={{date|2015-09-10|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
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46. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=http://www.zeit.de/2016/27/bertelsmann-konzern-thomas-rabe/komplettansicht|title=Bertelsmann: Endlich wieder fit?|website=Die Zeit|date={{date|2016-07-07|mdy}}|access-date={{date|2017-01-16|mdy}}}}
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48. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Thomas Rabe führt Bertelsmann bis 2021|newspaper=Rheinische Post|date={{date|2016-01-27|mdy}}}}
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51. ^[https://www.bertelsmann.com/news-and-media/news/kasper-rorsted-resigns-from-bertelsmann-supervisory-board.jsp Kasper Rorsted Resigns from Bertelsmann Supervisory Board] Bertelsmann, press release of March 19, 2019.
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55. ^{{cite web|language=de|url=https://www.bbug.de/de/ueber-uns/der-verein.php|title=Board of Trustees|publisher=Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche (BBUG)|access-date={{date|2019-04-01|mdy}}}}
56. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Punk à la Gütersloh|newspaper=WirtschaftsWoche|date={{date|2011-10-17|mdy}}}}
57. ^{{cite news|language=de|title=Gütersloh reloaded|newspaper=Manager Magazin|date={{date|2011-11-18|mdy}}}}
58. ^Jan Hauser (December 9, 2018), [https://blogs.faz.net/medienwirtschaft/2018/12/09/birgit-und-thomas-rabe-helfen-der-bauhaus-universitaet-in-weimar-1524/ Birgit und Thomas Rabe helfen der Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
59. ^{{cite book|language=de|title=Gesamtverzeichnis des Cartellverbands der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen|date=2015}}

External links

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  • [https://www.bertelsmann.com/company/management/executive-board/ Curriculum Vitae of Thomas Rabe] on the official Bertelsmann website
  • [https://www.ft.com/content/8411d7b0-caf0-11e3-9c6a-00144feabdc0 Thomas Rabe, Bertelsmann CEO: From punk rock to family values] (Financial Times)
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