Carsten Coesfeld

Chief Executive Officer of Bertelsmann Investments

Coesfeld began his tenure at Bertelsmann in 2011 working as a management associate for the Chief Executive Officer. In 2012, he moved to New York City to join Penguin Random House where he held a variety of business development and strategy roles throughout the newly founded, globally active book publishing group. Carsten Coesfeld earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. He started his career in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in London in October 2009.

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