Management of the Leipziger Messe

Martin Buhl-Wagner was appointed Managing Director of Leipziger Messe GmbH and its subsidiaries FAIRNET GmbH and Leipziger Messe Gastveranstaltungen GmbH in 2008. He has been spokesman for the executive board at Leipziger Messe and CEO of the subsidiary fairgourmet GmbH since 2010.

Mr Buhl-Wagner holds a degree in industrial engineering from the TU Berlin. After working as a teacher, he took up project management for the Leipziger Messe Group of Companies in 1995. From 2000 he served as head of administration at the MEDICA Clinic for Outpatient Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Leipzig, and from 2002 to 2008 served as authorised signatory for the operational management of Leipziger Messe's subsidiary FAIRNET Gesellschaft für Messe-, Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsservice mbH.

Martin Buhl-Wagner is a board member of the AUMA Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (Ausstellungs- und Messe-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft) and a member of the executive committee of the Leipzig Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK). He is also Chairman of the Friends and Sponsors of the University of Leipzig (Universitätsgesellschaft Freunde und Förderer der Universität Leipzig) and a member of the Supervisory Board of Leipzig Tourist Service in addition to further business commitments.

Martin Buhl-Wagner was born in Annaberg-Buchholz in 1966. He is married and father to one daughter.

Photos of Martin Buhl-Wagner are available for download from the Leipzig Trade Fair photo service .

Markus Geisenberger has been Managing Director of Leipziger Messe GmbH since 2010. He is also Managing Director of the subsidiaries LMI Leipziger Messe International GmbH, MAXiCOM GmbH and MT-Messe & Event GmbH.

Geisenberger graduated from the universities of Passau and Angers (France) with a degree in cultural economics and holds an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Business School. He got to know the trade fair and congress industry in Bavarian export promotion and with international event organisers. There he initially worked in business development and carried out trade fair projects worldwide. He subsequently held various management positions and was responsible for new business as well as for several leading international trade fairs in Germany and abroad, including in the construction industry, beverage technology, mechanical engineering and the automation and electronics industry.

Markus Geisenberger is spokesman of the Board of Trustees of Industrieverein Sachsen 1828 e.V., member of the Supervisory Board of Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland Management GmbH, member of the Advisory Board of Marketing Club Leipzig e.V. and representative of German trade fair companies on the Association Committee of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry UFI. He is also active in other business and scientific associations.

Markus Geisenberger was born in Grafenau in 1967. He is married and has two children.

Photos of Markus Geisenberger are available for download from the Leipzig Trade Fair photo service.