Overview

Gender

male

Jan Bayer is the President of BILD and WELT Group at Axel Springer SE since April 2014.

Jan, born in 1970, read media studies and law, as well as business administration in Hanover and Madison, Wisconsin. Jan began his career in 1995 as a trainee at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. Jan worked there from 1996–1999 in advertising sales. Following a stint as Publishing Manager of the Volksstimme in Magdeburg, he returned to the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2002 as Head of Controlling, becoming Publishing Manager in 2004.

In 2006 Jan became the Head of the Executive Office for Newspapers at Axel Springer SE, where he became Publishing Director of the Hamburg Regional Newspaper Group from 2007 and Chairman of the management board of the WELT GROUP / BERLINER MORGENPOST / HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT from 2008.

In January 2012 Jan took over as President WELT Group and Printing, since April 2014 he is President BILD and WELT Group.

Jan is a Member of the Supervisory Board at Allesklar.com AG.