Bernd Förtsch founded the predecessor company of today's flatexDEGIRO AG in 1999. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of flatexDEGIRO AG and its predecessor companies intermittently since 2011, during which time he also served as Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Board. The 2025 Annual General Meeting re-elected him for a four-year term until 2029.
In 1989, Bernd founded Börsenbuchverlag, from which Börsenmedien AG emerged in 1998 - which he developed into one of the leading business publishers in Germany. Featuring four stock market magazines, over a dozen stock market newsletters, special reports, and specialist and non-fiction books, Börsenmedien offers the most comprehensive range of publications for retail investors in the German-speaking world. Bernd also holds various investments, including a majority stake in the listed company Heliad AG, one of Germany's leading venture capitalists.
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