Oliver Stumm, 42, has joined the management of Business Network Marketing and Verlagsgesellschaft as managing partner. His task at this specialist consulting firm for business communication will be to expand the area of real estate and finance business, and to boost the company's strategic development. This will, among other things, include the expansion of the regional business publications and the corporate media sector.

Oliver Stumm, 42, has joined the management of Business Network Marketing and Verlagsgesellschaft as managing partner. His task at this specialist consulting firm for business communication will be to expand the area of real estate and finance business, and to boost the company's strategic development. This will, among other things, include the expansion of the regional business publications and the corporate media sector.

Stumm started his public relations career in politics, working as press spokesman for the economics minister of Baden-Württemberg, Walter Doning. Between 2000 and 2006, he worked for Hochtief Development, serving as head of corporate communications. Most recently, Stumm headed the Corporate Communications division of Corestate, a private equity investor based in Zug, Switzerland.