Mr. Riess, who was appointed CEO following the merger of the World Association of Newspapers with the research and technology organisation IFRA, was responsible for the successful re-organisation and strategy of the global organisation of the world’s news publishing industry. Christoph has fulfilled his assigned role to the expectations of WAN-IFRA and during his term has succeeded in putting the financial matters on track from negative to a positive situation, says WAN-IFRA.
“Christoph has done well in the best interest of WAN-IFRA during his tenure and we are grateful to him for his services and wish him all success in the future”, said Jacob Mathew, President of WAN-IFRA.
Mr. Mathew said the Board would soon begin the recruitment process for a new CEO. In the interim, the three Deputy CEOs – Manfred Werfel in Darmstadt, Larry Kilman in Paris and Thomas Jacob in Singapore – supported by Chief Financial Officer Andreas Musielak, would function as the executive management of WAN-IFRA. During the interim period, Mr. Manfred Werfel, the most senior Deputy CEO, will be the interim CEO to coordinate the routine.
