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Carsten Coesfeld

Chief Executive Officer of Bertelsmann Investments and member of the Bertelsmann Management SE Executive Board

Carsten Coesfeld, born in 1987, earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. He started his career in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in London in 2009.

In 2011, he began his tenure at Bertelsmann as a management associate for the Chief Executive Officer. In 2012, he moved to New York City to join Penguin Random House, where he held a variety of business development and strategy roles throughout the globally active book publishing group.

At the beginning of 2016, Carsten Coesfeld was appointed President Telecommunications and Managing Director at Arvato Supply Chain Solutions.

Carsten Coesfeld became CEO of the London-based global nonfiction publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK) in March 2020.

On 1 June 2022, Carsten Coesfeld was named CEO of Bertelsmann Investments.

In November 2023, Carsten Coesfeld was appointed to the Bertelsmann Executive Board with effect from 1 January 2024. As Executive Board Member he oversees Bertelsmann Investments, Riverty as well as the Bertelsmann Education Group.

Nationality: German
First appointed: 26 April 2023
Re-elected: 24 April 2024

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