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Management
Matthias Schmidt is Partner and Executive Board Member of Scholz & Friends Group as well as Creative Managing Director at Scholz & Friends Hamburg.

Matthias Schmidt was born in Frankfurt in 1970. He studied social and economic communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin and obtained his degree in communication in 1998. He launched his career in 1998 as a junior copywriter at Scholz & Friends Berlin, where he became a senior copywriter one year later and, in 2001, Creative Director and Family Head. In 2005, Schmidt, who has received numerous national and international awards, was appointed to the Management Board of Scholz & Friends Hamburg. In this function, he is responsible for the creative performance of the agency, in particular for renowned clients like Holsten, Honda, Commerzbank, Siemens, Zimbo or Tchibo. In April 2008, he was appointed Executive Board Member of the Scholz & Friends Group.

Schmidt has been a member of the Art Directors Club Deutschland since 2001. His works scooped prizes, among others, in Cannes, at the ADC Deutschland and in New York, at the Clio awards and at the London International Advertising Award.

Stefan Setzkorn is Creative Managing Director at Scholz & Friends Hamburg. In this function, he is responsible for the creative performance of the agency, in particular for renowned clients like Siemens, TUI, Honda and Holsten.

 

Setzkorn was born in Stuttgart in 1968. He studied communication design at the Technical University of Düsseldorf. He launched his career as a junior art director at the Serviceplan agency in Munich, subsequently working as an Art Director at Euro RSCG Düsseldorf and DDB Worldwide. In 1998, Setzkorn moved to Scholz & Friends Hamburg, where he was promoted to Creative Director two years later. In 2004, the creative head, who has won numerous national and international awards, was appointed to the Management Board of Scholz & Friends Hamburg.

 

Setzkorn has been a member of the Art Directors Club Deutschland since 2003. His works were successful, among others, in Cannes, at the ADC Deutschland and in New York, at the London International Advertising Award, at the Clio and Effie awards.

 

Wolfgang Steinhaus has been Managing Director and Managing Director of Consulting at Scholz & Friends Hamburg since October 2003. In this function, he is responsible for agency management and customer liaison.

 

Wolfgang Steinhaus studied business sciences at the University of Hanover. He launched his career in 1985 at Michael Conrad & Leo Burnett Frankfurt, where he attended to the clients Philip Morris and the Marlboro brand for eight years. From 1992 to 1994 he was responsible for numerous Unilever accounts at Lintas Hamburg.

 

In 1995, Wolfgang Steinhaus took over key account management for Kraft Foods, Nestlé and Müller at J. Walter Thompson, and, from 1999 as Office Manager also the responsibility for the entire client and agency management of the Frankfurt head office of J. Walter Thompson. Prior to becoming Managing Director at Scholz & Friends Hamburg in 2003, he was Managing Director of the McCann-Erickson-Communication-House M.E.C.H. in Berlin.

 

 




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