Dr. Ferdinand Bartl

• freelance journalist from 1973 onwards
• 1981-1991 Girozentrale: senior executive Marketing and Corporate Communication; responsible for the press relations of Austria´s second largest bank
• 1983: co-founder of GESCO (company for corporate communication)
• 1991 CEO of GESCO (32 employees) and CEO of GESCO Medien
• 1998 Communico plc.
• since 1 June 2005 sole owner and CEO of fb communications

Skills

• Longtime experience in elaborating and implementing PR and advertising activities for organisations and companies in all kinds of business areas
• Managing experience in elaborating and implementing communication measures in the course of IPOs and capital increases
• Supervision of press relations of numerous Austrian and international companies in the industry as well as in the service sector
• Design and production of high-quality corporate publications, as business and quarterly reports, image brochures, customer newspapers
• Consultancy of well-known domestic and international managers in the course of mergers, reorganisations or corporate crises