Christian Herkel new CEO at GRÜN software media

Endingen, February 27.08.2025th, XNUMX. The GRÜN Software Media GmbH, a market-leading software provider for media companies such as publishing houses, corporate publishers and bookstores, has Dipl.-Ing. Christian Herkel appointed a new managing director in August 2025.

Christian Herkel succeeds Rainer Heckmann, who has successfully developed the company over the past five years and is leaving at the end of August at his own request. As an engineer, the new CEO brings with him extensive experience in managing software companies and has led a Karlsruhe-based software company with 80 employees in recent years. "It is with great enthusiasm that I continue the success story of GRÜN Software Media. I want to continue to consistently optimize our software solutions so that they become even more valuable to our customers through improved benefits," says the new CEO Christian Herkel.

Matthias Meier, who has served as authorized signatory for many years, will also remain on the management team as CTO, thus ensuring continuity. "I look forward to working with Christian Herkel in the newly formed management team."

The GRÜN Software Medien has specialized in industry software for publishers and bookstores for decades and operates in the GRÜN Software Group as a platform for Software in media companies“It is a great pleasure for me to welcome Christian Herkel to GRÜN Software Medien. As a skilled and experienced expert, he will support the successful digitalization and growth strategy of GRÜN “Continue software media sustainably” says Oliver Grün, PhD., CEO of GRÜN Software Group.

The GRÜN Software Group is a constantly growing group of industry software manufacturers. GRÜN With 350 employees, offers specialized industry software for institutions and companies from media, trade and industry, which is available in four GRÜN-Platforms for these target groups are bundled. The group of companies follows the maxim "Industry needs specialists" and always focuses on industry software with individual subsidiaries. This means that the solutions are always tailored to one industry – how GRÜN Software Media in the publishing and bookstore sector – and provide users and customers with a competitive edge in digitalization compared to the use of monolithic and generalist enterprise software. By bundling different industry solutions under one roof, numerous synergy effects are created in the areas of development, marketing, and also in the creation of a digital ecosystem with interfaces between all industry solutions of the GRÜN Group.