Position: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brandinsider GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Nationality: German
Date of Birth: December 21, 1947
Degree: Ph.D. Economics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Other
Memberships:
Member of the Board, Ruckstuhl AG, Langenthal, Switzerland
Member of the Board, Charles Vögele Holding AG, Pfäffikon/SZ, Switzerland
Member of the Advisory Board, Nijenrode University, The Netherlands
Member of the Harvard University Art Museum’s Visiting Committee, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA
Career:
Peter Littmann is Chairman and CEO of Brandinsider GmbH, a strategic brand-consulting firm in Hamburg,
Germany.
From 1997 until 1999, Peter Littmann was Chairman and CEO of Wünsche AG, a Hamburg based company,
which at that time was holding brands like Joop! and Cinque. From 1993 to 1997, he was Chairman and
CEO of Hugo Boss AG, a men’s fashion design company based in Metzingen, Germany.
Prior to that, Peter Littmann spent 12 years with Vorwerk & Co., in Wuppertal, Germany, holding various
positions, including Member of the Executive Board, General Partner and President. From 1978 to 1981
Peter Littman was Executive Director at Rosenthal AG, Selb, Germany. Prior to that, Peter Littman served as
President of the Carpet Division at Girmes Ltd., in Grefrath, Germany, for two years.
Born in Prague in 1947, Peter Littmann studied engineering, graduating in 1967 from the University of
Bratislava in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1968, he moved to Germany, where he studied Business
Management at the University of Cologne, graduating in 1975 with a doctorate.
Peter Littmann is Professor of Marketing at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, as well as author of
numerous publications and books. The latest one on New Economy called Oszillodox. Virtualisierung - die
permanente Neuerfindung der Organisation received the prize of Bestes Deutsches Wirtschaftbuch des
Jahres 2000 by Ernst & Young Cap Gemini. |