Management Board

Dr Helmut Becker is CEO of ZEAL since 1 September 2015, after being Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for more than two years. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL since mid 2011 and Chief Commercial Officer of XING AG since September 2009. In this capacity he was responsible for Product, Marketing and Revenues divisions. Before taking up this position at XING AG, Helmut Becker was Senior Director Advertising and Internet Marketing of eBay Germany and Managing Director of eBay Advertising AG. Prior to these posts he was Managing Director of the eBay subsidiary Shopping.com Deutschland and Director Strategy and Corporate Development for eBay. He began his career as a consultant at McKinsey. Dr. Helmut Becker studied physics at the University of Hamburg and the University of Cambridge, where gained his PhD.

Andrea Behrendt, born in 1981, is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at ZEAL and responsible for Finance and Investor Relations. Prior to this, she had already been responsible for the business management of all organizational units of ZEAL and its subsidiary LOTTO24 AG as VP Group Controlling since 2018. Overall, she has already held various positions in the finance department of the ZEAL Group since 2012.

With a degree in business administration, her professional focus is on looking after and safeguarding all financial matters at ZEAL, as well as on financial management and financial reporting. In addition, she is responsible for the counseling and acquisition of investors.

Prior to her career at ZEAL, Andrea Behrendt held various management positions in controlling at well-known groups such as VTG and the Hofmeister Group.

 

Paul Dingwitz is member of the ZEAL Management Board since 5 June 2021, after being in charge for Technology Operations, Security and Engineering at ZEAL for more than five years. He has more than 20 years working in the technology sector and more than ten of those years holding executive leadership positions. Prior to joining ZEAL, he was Vice President of Technology for Rue La La in Boston as well as CTO of ONE Media Corp in Atlanta. He also held a senior engineering role at CNN where he helped develop and deploy the first online live video portal for the network. His background and expertise is diverse – across operations, security and engineering – all starting 1997 with Military service early in his career. He studied Technology Management at the American Military University (AMU/APU).