The world’s leading classical music management company, HarrisonParrott Group, is delighted to welcome Markus Klimmer to its Board as a Non-Executive Director, effective 1 July 2024. Markus has had an impressive career in business, government and the arts. As a Partner at McKinsey, he was the co-founder and co-leader of their global Public Sector business. He later joined Accenture as a Senior Partner for Public Sector Strategy Consulting. Markus has served governments and international public sector organisations in more than 40 countries. He served in government twice – first as the chief economic advisor and campaign strategist for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his then-capacity as German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor, and later as policy and campaign strategist for Austria’s Federal Chancellor Christian Kern. As an entrepreneur, he is co-founder of HH2E, the fast-growing German green hydrogen company, and Daluma, the Berlin-based cult brand for health and lifestyle, amongst others. Markus is the Chairman of the Bauhaus Museum and Archive, Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House Los Angeles (Artist’s and Scientist’s Residence Programme of Germany), and a Komische Oper Berlin Board Member. In 2019, he was appointed Artistic Advisor of the Opera Houses in Prague (extended to 2028), where he led ​‘Musica non grata’, a programme to rediscover and celebrate the Czech-Jewish-German musical world between the wars. Markus is an Austrian citizen and lives in Berlin and London with his partner.

HarrisonParrott Group thanks outgoing Non-Executive Director Steven Fogel for his important contribution, advice, and support over the last two years in the company’s transition to becoming an Employee Ownership Trust.