About

Bertelsmann is a media, services and education company that operates in about 50 countries around the world. The company has 117,000 employees and generated revenues of €17.7bn in the 2018 financial year. Heading the legal department of Bertelsmann, general counsel, Dr Thomas Götz is a highly experienced lawyer who joined the company in 1998 and assumed his current role in 2014. In 2018, Dr Götz advised on the formation of Majorel, ‘where Bertelsmann and Saham Group bundled their worldwide CRM activities’, he says. Götz also serves as a supervisory board member of Majorel. In addition, during the past few years, he has been a member of the board of directors at the broadcaster RTL Group (a listed company) and the leading trade book publisher Penguin Random House.