Thomas Rudin joined the management team at schalk&friends in August 2021. The 43-year-old comes from the network agency diva-e and will be primarily responsible for the technological development and expansion of the service portfolio. Alex Reinhold has also been promoted to Head of Development.

Platform expert Thomas Rudin is now responsible for the further development of digital services, technological orientation and new customer business at schalk&friends. The computer science graduate previously managed the business of the diva-e agency in Berlin, where he looked after numerous major clients such as Edeka, LBS Bausparen, Talanx and Hertha BSC. Alex Reinhold will also be joining the management team; the computer science graduate will further expand the 30-strong development team in terms of content and personnel. By strengthening its management team, which also consists of founder Tobias Schalkhaußer and the two managing directors Matthias Bierich and Sven Maier, the digital agency is responding to the continuously positive business development and increasing customer demand for digital solutions.

schalk&friends founder Tobias Schalkhaußer: “Our aim is to fully meet the full-service requirements of our customers in the areas of digital strategy, creative consulting, performance-orientated online marketing and comprehensive technological support. To this end, we have consistently developed our organisation, expertise and technological offerings in the recent past and now have the appropriate reinforcements in Thomas and Alex. We are therefore ideally positioned to successfully continue the excellent development of recent years.”

Thomas Rudin, Managing Director of schalk&friends: “schalk&friends attaches great importance to supporting SMEs with technical innovations and taking a very personalised approach to customer advice. I find both of these features very exciting and I will continue to successfully drive this positioning forward with my expertise.”