INDUSTRIE-CONTACT - Key Persons


Andreas Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Head of Digital / Art Director
Andreas Meyer is Head of Digital and Art Director at Industrie-Contact. His core competences are classic PR, online PR, SEO as well as web development and web design for various customers and projects, both national and international. His skills range from situation analysis to application and optimization of target-audience-oriented communication strategies. Andreas Meyer has been working for Industrie-Contact since 1998. Alongside graphic design for classic press work, his work mainly consists in planning and implementing digital marketing strategies. He has crucial insight on target groups, media and content in the development of analog and digital communication. Designing advertisements, brochures, flyers and posters is part of his day-to-day work, as is creating web design, mailings and newsletters. Use of numerous content management systems (CMS) as well as HTML raw coding are part of his key skills, which he uses for SEO, for example.

Carolin Bragula

Job Titles:
  • Assistant PR
  • Team Member at IC
Carolin Bragula has been a team member at IC since October 2023 as a trainee in the Public Relations department.

Christiane Knudt

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Commercial Assistant
  • Member of the Magnet Board
Christiane Knudt works as commercial assistant offering a long track record of experience. Christiane has been working for Industrie-Contact since the early 1990's. Her professional knowledge is huge. She is a perfect organizer, fast worker and ready to resist high pressure situations. Hier field of activities covers commercial assistance, office management, accounting and real estate management. Christiane Knudt joined Industrie-Contact (IC) in 1992. Before she worked for the customer service of Deutsche Telekom. At IC she completed her vocational training as office manager and took over the office management that she holds until today.

Eleonora Hertz

Job Titles:
  • PR Consultant
  • Health Care PR Consultant
Eleonora Hertz is a very experienced PR consultant with focus on healthcare and medicine.

Erik Biewendt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant
  • Senior Consultant PR / Project Manager

Gerhard Fuchs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Board of Industrie - Contact since 2011
Gerhard Fuchs worked for the Hamburg administration, most recently as State Council of the Authority for Urban Development and the Environment. His diverse professional experience on supervisory boards and his numerical certainty make him the ideal controller. Until the end of 2016, Gerhard Fuchs was responsible for traffic coordination for the overdecking of the A7.

Jonathan Klimke - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman of the Management Board
  • Managing Partner

Jürgen Klimke

Job Titles:
  • Co - Owner
Jürgen Klimke joined Industrie-Contact in 1984 and focused on the expansion of the German clientele. In 1988, the growth initiated by him led to the agency's move to larger premises, today's offices in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. In the 1990s, he divided up the German business with his business partner Uwe Schmidt. From 2002 to 2017, Jürgen, who is a member of the CDU, has been elected as a member of the German Bundestag where he had focused on development cooperation, foreign policy (especially South and Southeast Asia), the OSCE, economic development and the development of the greater Elbe region. Jürgen Klimke is married and has four adult children. At home, he likes to cook for his family or even for the whole agency, specially good traditional Northern German fare cuisine.

Klaus Francke

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board ( 1999 - 2008 )
  • Supervisory Board

Lena Skazel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant PR

Lilly Kies

Job Titles:
  • Assistant PR
Lilly completed a four-month internship at IC in 2022. She then joined the PR department as a student trainee.

Mats Schilling

Job Titles:
  • Accountant
  • Member of the Magnet Board
Mats Schilling is accountant and very thorough with numbers. Mats has been working since 2016 for Industrie-Contact as external accountant. Numbers are his passion. Only after all numbers are correct, he feels happy.

Michael Bruhns

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • COB
  • COB / Head of the Board

Sabine Harms-Karla

Job Titles:
  • Beauty, Health Care, Lifestyle & Food Communications Consultant

Uwe Schmidt - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Member of the Magnet Board

Werner Bruhns

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Head of the Board