On July 1, 2021, Björn Radu (52) was appointed vice president of technical event organisation at Koelnmesse, with responsibility for the customer and market-orientated technical implementation of events on the exhibition grounds. Radu joins Koelnmesse from Messe Leipzig, where most recently he held the position of head of Technical Services and Infrastructure.
Radu succeeds Georg Klumpe, who after 18 years of service has left the company at his own wish to take up a managerial post at the Cologne public transport authorities.