Jeanette Loos Named Global Head Of ISPO Group

Jeanette Loos has assumed the newly created position of Global Head of ISPO Group at Messe München.

Her areas of responsibility include the strategic refinement of the entire ISPO portfolio, increased synergies among the individual stationary and digital platforms of ISPO and the optimization of processes at the ISPO Group. In her function, she reports directly to Tobias Gröber, executive director of the business unit consumer goods at Messe München.

Loos (pictured left), who earned a doctorate in communications studies, has a broad range of experience in the areas of digital transformation, organization development, process optimization and change management. In her most recent position, she was a senior manager/principal at Goetzpartners Management Consultants. Previous positions included Techem Energy Services and the University of Hohenheim. Loos has also spent a considerable amount of time abroad, working in Brazil, China and Japan. As a former youth athlete in fistball, sport is still one of her passions.

Loos is now heading the entire ISPO cluster. The exhibition directors of ISPO Munich, ISPO Beijing and ISPO Shanghai as well as OutDoor by ISPO report to her. Her areas of responsibility also include the ISPO Business Solutions, which comprises the online news portal ISPO.com, ISPO Digitize, ISPO Brandnew, ISPO Open Innovation, ISPO Award, ISPO Academy, ISPO Textrends, ISPO Job Market and ISPO Shop.

Tobias Gröber, executive director of the business unit consumer goods at Messe München, said: “I am really happy that we could attract Jeanette Loos, an experienced strategist who can draw on her experience and management skills to fuel our effort to refine the ISPO Cluster.”