Oliver Niedermaier, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer

Oliver Niedermaier is President and Chief Executive Officer of King Worldwide. Most recently, Oliver was Chief Executive Officer of Georgeson, a subsidiary of Computershare, a world-leading provider of strategic solutions to corporations and shareholder groups. Oliver joined the Computershare group executive committee following its 2004 acquisition of Pepper Technologies AG, an international CRM software and consultancy business which he founded in 1998. He was responsible for corporate strategic development during an active period in Computershare’s international expansion.

In 2007, Oliver co-founded with The Riverside Company, Sage Holdings - now DF King Worldwide. Oliver is currently a non-executive director for UK-based Equiniti (formerly Lloyds TSB registrar, acquired by Advent International in 2007) and non-executive board member of the LMU Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Munich.

Oliver graduated from Ludwig Maxmilians University, Munich, with a Masters in Business Administration. While teaching Strategic Management at the University of Munich, Oliver completed his coursework for a PhD and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Oliver was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2010 Young Global Leader. Oliver is based in New York.