From CMOs for CMOs: Next step for CMO of the Year award

The CMO of the Year award is the highest honour for chief marketing officer in Germany. From this year onwards the motto will be “From CMOs for CMOs”: the jury will consist of an additional nine influential CMOs – all members of the CMO of the Year Council. The original jury members, the media partners of the Innovation Day, Capital, n-tv and Horizont and the Institute for Marketing of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), will remain in post. The previous year's winner, Hans-Christian Schwingen, Brand Manager at Deutsche Telekom, will also be taking up an honorary position on the jury.

The fourth CMO of the Year award will be handed out on the evening of the Innovation Day, on 28 September 2017 as part of a gala event attended by the German economic and marketing elite in Munich. 

Munich, July 13 2017 — With the direct involvement of well-known and respected Chief Marketing Officers in the awards process for CMO of the Year, the award is taking on a new dimension in line with the motto "From CMOs for CMOs". All the nominations this year will be made by the CMO of the Year Council, currently consisting of 50 members. Those with multiple nominations will be included automatically in the shortlist, from which the Council will identify the top 5. A jury of 20 people, with a balance of CMOs and marketing and media experts, will then attend a meeting over several hours to discuss the nominees and decide who will be awarded the title CMO of the Year 2017.

The award is intended to send out a clear signal in the sector, as Prof. Dr. Anton Meyer, Head of the Institute for Marketing at LMU and Chairman of the CMO of the Year jury, explains: "We see the Chief Marketing Officer as the real pacemaker for business transformation. He or she is responsible for dealing with the constantly growing complexity and fragmentation of the markets and must be able to coordinate a wide range of different communication and marketing disciplines in a precise way while also focusing on the respective company's objectives. The CMO of the Year award is a significant accolade, particularly given the ongoing discussion of the importance of marketing."
The 2017 award will be presented on the evening of 28 September as part of a gala event attended by the German economic and marketing elite at Alte Bayerische Staatsbank in Munich.

The 2017 jury consists of the following people:

• Horst von Buttlar, Editor-in-Chief of Capital
• Matthias Dang, Managing Director of IP Deutschland
• Hans Demmel, Managing Director of n-tv
• Ronald Focken, Managing Director of the Serviceplan Group
• Florian Haller, CEO of the Serviceplan Group
• Sascha Lekic, Director of IM B2B Samsung Electronics
• Thomas Lindner, CEO of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Prof. Dr. Anton Meyer, Chairman of the Institute for Marketing at LMU (jury spokesperson)
• Ingo Müller, Head of Advertising Markets and Media Solutions at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Frank Vogel, Managing Director of G+J Media Sales