On November 27, 2023, the Board of European Entrepreneurs CEA-PME approved Mr. Christoph Ahlhaus as the new President of our confederation.
Mr Ahlhaus is the Executive Chairman of the Federal Management Board of our German Member BVMW. A trained banker and lawyer who graduated from LMU Munich, he has been a member of the state parliament, state councillor, internal affairs senator and first mayor of Hamburg. As chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers in 2010, Ahlhaus earned cross-party respect as a close advisor to the federal government in the field of internal security.
Mr Jorge Portugal, General Manager of our Portuguese Member COTEC Portugal, is now Co-President of our confederation.
Previously, he accumulated extensive corporate management experience and transformation in the retail, banking and information technology sectors.
Jorge served as an advisor on innovation and entrepreneurship at the office of the President of the Portuguese Republic and to the Portuguese Government.
On the same occasion, our board also welcomed two new members of our confederation: the European DIGITAL SME Alliance as a full member and the Central Asia Business Council as an associated member.
