Marcus Dauck

Head Publishing Technologies & Services, Ringier AG, Switzerland

Biography

Marcus Dauck holds the position of Head Publishing Technologies & Services since April 2019. Since 2010 he was Chief Information Officer at Ringier Axel Springer Media AG responsible for the CEE activities and board member of Dreamlab the technology company of ONET.pl in Krakow, Poland, furthermore from 2014 on Chief Information Officer at Ringier AG the leading international Swiss media company.

Marcus has developed a profound media, innovative IT, organisational and intercultural background over the last 25 years being active in the media industry. He started his career at Axel Springer in Hamburg, Germany in 1988 and was responsible for implementations of mainly commercial and finance IT systems until 2000.

He then joined Siemens as Management Consultant and program manager for large restructuring and process optimization projects in India, including the top 3 media houses and newspapers in India. With stops in Dubai and Cyprus he rejoined Axel Springer as an IT division manager for editorial systems as well as print production, marketing and sales and Customer Relationship Management.

Marcus was also heading the IT Digital department at Axel Springer, which launched some of the largest news sites in Germany. Moreover he was responsible for positioning the IT department as central service unit and innovation leader.

Marcus is chairman of the Digital Economy Award, member of the board of the Swiss IT Leadership Forum, as well as member of the Swiss Advisory Board of SwissCognitive the global AI hub.

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