The Supervisory Board of Bastei Lübbe AG appointed Soheil Dastyari as a member of the Executive Board as of 1 March 2022 and at the same time appoints him as Chairman of the Executive Board of the Cologne-based publishing group. The aim of the appointment is to further advance the company's successful growth course. The previous executive board team had stabilized the group's economic earning power and optimized the portfolio earlier than expected.

Chief Financial Officer Joachim Herbst, who most recently served as Spokesman of the Executive Board, Simon Decot (Programme) as well as Sandra Dittert (Marketing and Sales) will form the future Executive Board together with Soheil Dastyari. Soheil Dastyari has many years of experience in various management positions in the media sector, including leading positions in the Bertelsmann Group and in the media company Gruner + Jahr.