As Man­aging Dir­ect­or Thomas Rützel leads Fielmann Ven­tures jointly with the Fielmann Group’s Dir­ect­or Mar­ket­ing & Digit­al, the Group’s CFO and the Group’s CEO. Thomas pre­vi­ously worked as Glob­al Head of Busi­ness Intel­li­gence of the West­wing Group and as busi­ness tech­no­logy con­sult­ant at McKin­sey. He holds a gradu­ate degree in phys­ics from the Uni­ver­sity of Ham­burg and master’s degrees in Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion and Pub­lic Policy from the Columbia Uni­ver­sity in New York and the Her­tie School of Gov­ernance in Ber­lin.