CTS EVENTIM and Kapsch TrafficCom appointed experienced management team to head their joint venture. Dr. Michael Blum and Volker Schneble will manage the operating company that will collect Germany's infrastructure charge for passenger vehicles ('car toll'). They were appointed by the company's shareholders, CTS EVENTIM and Kapsch TrafficCom.

Both Managing Directors have extensive management experience in toll and traffic telematics projects. Dr. Michael Blum has worked for over 20 years on innovative solutions in various companies in the mobility, infrastructure, consulting, and IT sectors. Until mid-April, he worked for Toll Collect for seven years, where he was head of corporate and product strategy, sales, and public affairs.

Between 2007 and 2011, he headed the Berlin office of Dornier Consulting, a consultancy specializing in mobility, before which he had worked as a management consultant, and as managing partner of a medium-sized family-owned business. Volker Schneble began his career at international technology and consulting companies in Switzerland and the U.S. Since 2005, the commercial lawyer and economics graduate has been working on intelligent transport solutions, initially as a research assistant in the German Bundestag. In 2012, he moved to Kapsch TrafficCom where he was head of sales in Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and was most recently Managing Director in charge of the German market.