Thomas Hermann Rabe is a German businessperson who has been at the head of 17 different companies and currently holds the position of Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Bertelsmann Management SE, Chairman-Supervisory Board for adidas AG and Chief Executive Officer for Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, Non-Executive Chairman of Prinovis GmbH & Co. KG, Chairman of Penguin Random House LLC, Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at RTL Group SA and Chairman and CEO at Bertelsmann Corporate Services India Pvt Ltd. (which are all subsidiaries of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA). Thomas Hermann Rabe is also on the board of Bertelsmann Digital Média Investments SA (former President), Penguin Random House Ltd. and Advanced Customer Relation S à R L.

In his past career Dr. Rabe was Member-Supervisory Board at Symrise AG, Chairman at Ricordi & C SpA, Chairman for Arist Education System LLC, Chief Financial Officer for Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA Chairman-Supervisory Board at arvato AG, Chairman of Bertelsmann, Inc. Chairman of Relias LLC, Chairman-Supervisory Board for Gruner + Jahr GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board for BMG Rights Management GmbH and Chief Executive Officer for Bertelsmann Publishing Group, Inc. (which are all subsidiaries of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA), Chairman-Supervisory Board for Druck- & Verlagshaus Hüpke & Sohn Weserland-Verlag GmbH, Chief Financial Officer & Director at Clearstream International SA, Director-Controlling at Treuhandanstalt, Head-Acquisitions at Beteiligungsgesellschaft Neue Zeitung mbH & Co. KG and Associate at White & Case LLP (Belgium).

He received a doctorate from Universität zu Köln and an MBA from RWTH Aachen University.