Cornelius Koelblin

At Amazon Ads, we help Brands to connect to their customers across all Amazon properties from Amazon Marketplace, twitch, Prime Music, Fire TV, freevee and many many more.

At BBDO, I was responsible for 300 talents from 40 nationalities speaking 27 languages, work for clients such as WhatsApp, Porsche, Dr. Oetker, Ford, Allianz, SAP, Amazon, Lidl, Unilever and others.

From 2020 to 2022, I was Chief Client Officer of Proximity Germany - part of the BBDO Group. Managing an agency with 160 people and working with clients such as Porsche, Amazon, Unilever and BUGATTI.

From 2018 to 2020 I was the managing director of BBDO Düsseldorf - Germany‘s founding and biggest BBDO office. Serving a multitude of global and international clients such as e.g. Ford, MARS, Bayer, Continental Tires, SAP, Vivo, Dr. Oetker, Telefónica and Postbank across various marketing and communication disciplines.

From 2014-2018, I managed all groupwide sales and marketing activities for the leading agency network in Germany with more than 8,500 experts from all marketing and communications disciplines. My team and I coordinated all new business activities, developed new business fields, managed partnerships with leading tech companies as well as created an internal collaboration and knowledge platform. During this time, the team and I helped continually growing the group’s business, making it the most successful agency network in Germany in 2016.

Before joining BBDO, I was responsible for developing the marketing and branding strategy for the yet to be founded brand BMW i - the electric car and mobility services brand of BMW. From the first concept in 2010 to the successful launch of the cars in 2014, I oversaw the global brand management. From 2006 to 2007 and 2009 to 2010, I worked in different roles as brand and communication strategist at BMW – both in the HQ as well as in China.

From 2007 to 2009, I managed a non-profit start-up building private and company kindergartens. The NGO was awarded “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Schwab Foundation and had built 19 kindergartens across Germany in just 18 months.