About Us
Julius Mittenzwei
CEO
responsible for:
the advancement of Open Publishing and technical innovations. He is the one who is on a par with every CIO on our clients´ side, and he is also able to comprehend what is going on in the engine room of the publishing houses.
in his former life:
former life? Julius founded Open Publishing 20 years ago. Well in fact, there has been a former life in which Julius received a PhD in law.
gets up in the morning for:
the development of a modern and high-performance software for publishers that enables them to control and manage their technical processes.
Barbara Hedtstück
Assistant to the CEO and HR
responsible for:
all HR-related topics, everything concerning our office organization, contact person for all departments and all the big and small questions that no one else has an answer to.
in her former life:
Barbara has always attended to organization and coordination as well as the optimization of structures and processes. Formerly, in other companies – nowadays fortunately at Open Publishing!
gets up in the morning for:
a fair and harmonic working atmosphere and an outcome-oriented approach to every challenge in our daily jobs. Barbara´s guiding principle is “do it with passion or not at all” – and she takes care that everyone in our team is content and enjoying himself.
Veronica Maidl
Director Account Management
responsible for:
our customers. Additionally, Veronica leads and develops our account management team and is responsible for technical product management.
in her former life:
Veronica was a sociologist which is very helpful with regard to comprehending our target groups. Before joining Open Publishing in 2014, she worked in the editorial team of GRIN.
gets up in the morning for:
us, the team at Open Publishing. Veronica wants to support the publishing houses in their digital transformation and thus make the book industry, and maybe even the world, a better place.
Claudia Lampe
Director Business Relations
responsible for:
the strategic development of new sales and business models.
in her former life:
Claudia was Head of Content & Operations at tolino media, and Account Manager at Amazon and Audible. In her former, former life, Claudia also had a stab at radio and TV.
gets up in the morning for:
supporting publishing companies with the implementation of new strategies and the common discovery of new sales channels and options.
Sibylle Bauschinger
Director Sales & Marketing at Bilandia
responsible for:
customers and their campaigns.
in her former life:
Sibylle was an editor for topics regarding climate protection and digitalization.
gets up in the morning for:
the optimal presentation of our customers´ products and the detection of the suitable target group for every book.
Albrecht Mangler
Head of Marketing Services
responsible for:
both creative and data-driven ideas in order to achieve more visibility for our clients and market their products to the fitting target groups just in time.
in his former life:
Albrecht was the very same as today – curious.
gets up in the morning for:
the opportunity to help shaping the digital world with all its changes and options.
Marianne Kraus
Senior Account Manager
responsible for:
support of publishing houses and retail marketing. Takes care of new members in our team and makes everyone feel at home. Her favourite project: retro digitalization of the complete works of Heinz G. Konsalik.
in her former life:
Marianne studied German and English literature at LMU München, she is actually fluent in Middle High German! Work experience at Herbert Utz Verlag, joined our team in 2014.
gets up in the morning for:
her love for literature, which she can foster at Open Publishing. Makes sure, that both current and old literature finds a way to the heart of readers – on analog as well as on digital ways.
Gina Kacher
Senior Account Manager
responsible for:
a lot of things – as Gina loves new challenges. She helps our customers with a focus on production and marketing. And she takes care of expanding our distribution of audio books.
in her former life:
Gina studied Egyptology, and she considered the deciphering of ancient hieroglyphics just as fascinating as today´s HTML. After quick stopovers at Droemer Knaur and Holtzbrinck Digital, Gina finally found her desired workplace at Open Publishing.
gets up in the morning for:
the first coffee – and good books for which she wants to find new readers both on traditional as on innovative channels.
Leonie Schobert
Account Manager
responsible for:
support of publishing houses as well as print-on-demand. Leonie knows exactly what it takes to sell books successfully on Amazon – and she has a weakness for the production of e-books.
in her former life:
Leonie studied cultural studies and book science in Tuebingen and Munich. Subsequently, Leonie worked for several publishing companies such as Kosmos Verlag, Dorling Kindersley, and Random House.
gets up in the morning for:
the big and small challenges of the day to which she always finds a solution.