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Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels

Chief Financial Officer, Discovery, Inc., New York City, New York, USA

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Audit and Compliance Committee, Finance and Investment Committee, Nomination Committee (Chairperson)

Qualification  
2003 Diploma in Business Informatics (Wirtschaftsinformatik), University of Mannheim (Universität Mannheim), Germany
2008 Doctor’s degree, University of Aachen (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule), Germany 
Career  
2004 – 2009 McKinsey & Company, Frankfurt/Hamburg, Germany – Management Consultant
2009 – 2010 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Munich, Germany – Senior Manager PMO
2010 – 2011 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Munich, Germany – Deputy Group Controller
2011 – 2013 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Munich, Germany – CFO National
2013 – 2014 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Munich, Germany – CFO National & Chief Group Controller
2014 – 2015 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, respectively, Munich, Germany – Deputy CFO and CFO National & Chief Group Controller
2015 – 2017 ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Munich, Germany – Member of the Executive Board, CFO
2017 – 2022 Discovery, Inc., New York City, New York, USA – CFO
Since 2022 Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., New York City, New York, USA – CFO
Other board memberships

Membership of supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies of publicly listed companies:​

  • None

Membership of supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies of non-public companies:

  • Board of Directors of OWN LLC, West Hollywood, California, USA (This membership is a group-internal mandate within the Discovery group).
  • Board of Directors of Speechagain, Inc., New York, USA

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