FTI GROUP
Lars Creutzmann has extensive experience in finance and leadership roles. Lars is currently serving as the Group Chief Financial Officer / Managing Director at FTI GROUP. Previously, they worked as the Group Chief Financial Officer Germany at Europcar Mobility Group and held the position of Vice President at Volkswagen Financial Services AG. Lars has also held executive positions at MAN Rental Group and MAN Truck & Bus, both in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Their earlier career includes roles at MAN Truck & Bus AG and Daimler AG, where they served as the Financial Director for smart-BRABUS GmbH and worked in controlling for associated companies.
Lars Creutzmann attended Kiel, where they obtained a Dipl. Kfm. degree in controlling and financial accounting.
FTI GROUP
With its brands, the FTI GROUP is the fourth largest travel operator in Europe. FTI Touristik, as well as the last minute operator 5vorFlug, the rental car broker driveFTI, the online portal fly.de, the largest German language tour operator LAL Sprachreisen, the Destination Management Company Meeting Point International, which is active in over 40 destinations worldwide, and the operator for promotional products BigXtra, belong to the FTI GROUP. Under the umbrella of the hospitality company Meeting Point Hotels the hotel brands LABRANDA Hotels & Resorts, Design Plus Hotels, Kairaba Hotels & Resorts, Club Sei and Lemon & Soul are bundled. The consolidator FTI Ticketshop is responsible for scheduled flight ticket sales while FTI Cruises bundles the cruise business. Around 10,000 travel agencies sell FTI products throughout Germany. The FTI GROUP has consolidated its franchise systems in its subsidiary Touristik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH (TVG). Under the TVG the Group brings together its franchise systems with the brands sonnenklar.TV Reisebüro, 5vorFlug and Flugbörse. Other important distribution channels are the travel shopping channel sonnenklar.TV and the British online B2B provider for hotel bookings, Youtravel. In Austria FTI is represented by a subsidiary in Linz, while FTI Touristik AG is located in Basel, Switzerland. The French tour operator FTI Voyages has been part of the FTI Group since 2012. With FTI Reizen the Group is also active in the Netherlands since 2016. The service center erf24 and travianet and touristic24handle bookings from the FTI GROUP and external customers. Headquartered in Munich, the FTI GROUP employs 10,000 staff worldwide and achieved sales volumes of 3,6 billion euros in the fiscal year 2017/18