Kai Hattendorf
Managing Director / CEO
- Company:
- UFI
- Country:
- France
- Biography:
- Kai is responsible for UFI activities and events globally, as well as the operation of its Paris headquarters as well as the offices and presences in Bogota, Brussels, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
From 2017 to 2024, Kai served on the Board of the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC), a global Council of international and global associations serving the Business Events Industry, which he chaired as President from 2019 to 2021.
Prior to his current role, Kai worked in the exhibition industry for numerous years in senior management positions at Messe Frankfurt’s global headquarters, focusing on transformational issues ranging from digitisation to marketing and communications. His previous career also includes leadership positions in marketing/strategic communications as well as in strategy and product development in the ITC and Media Industry for the Deutsche Telekom Group, the dpa Group (the German Press Agency), and a fintech start-up.
A journalist by education, Kai has internationally reported and worked for the WDR and Radio Bremen broadcasters in Germany, at Euronews in France, the BBC in the UK, and the Voice of America. He holds a Master’s degree from the American University, Washington, DC. He also studied in Dortmund and Edinburgh.
- Company website:
- https://www.ufi.org/