He is supported by the Corporate Marketing & Communications staff department and the Product Marketing & Communications central department. Carola Hesse will continue to head the Corporate Marketing & Communications staff department. She focuses on the strategy of corporate communication, crisis and sustainability communication, as well as internal communication. In his new function, Willi Bock reports directly to the dual CEO Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer and Stefan Rummel.

From 2014 to the end of 2018, Willi Bock was Head of Corporate PR and Press Spokesman at Messe München. Before that, he worked for more than 20 years as a senior editor and responsible for local politics at the Münchner Merkur and the Abendzeitung.