Name: Franz Prenner
Title: Chief Executive Officer of Mediaprint Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenverlag, Austria

After studying commerce and international trade Franz landed his first job as product manager at ITT Austria in 1976. In 1980 he moved to Moulinex Austria as marketing manager, and has then spent 8 years as client service director and head of new business from 1987 to 1995 at Publicis, Vienna.

In 1995 he moved to ORF, Austria's state broadcaster, as CEO of ORF-Enterprise, company's profit arm. Within this capacity he was a senior head of corporation's ad sales.

From January to November 2002 he was based in London as CEO of the International Advertising Festival, the “Cannes Lions”, and from early 2003 to 2007 the CEO of Austria's first private TV station ATV Privat.

Since November 2007 heh has been CEO of newspaper and magazine publishing house Mediaprint, and his direct responsibilities include all ad sales.