Ute Lauermann serves as the Foundation Manager of the Günter Thiele Foundation for Communication and Management. She is also a team assistant at the Academic Society for Corporate Management and Communication. Since 2020, she has been responsible for accounting, office organization, and client relation management. With a background as an academic librarian, Ute has spent almost her entire professional life working in various areas of the specialist book trade. Until 2018, she headed the customer service team at Schweitzer Fachinformationen Hamburg, where her duties included key accounts from the corporate sector.