Michael Oschmann is a media and digital-ventures leader with deep expertise spanning local business directories, broadcasting, publishing, and internet businesses. He has led müller x net (formerly Müller Medien), a fourth-generation, Nuremberg-based family media group, since 2000 together with his sister Constanze Oschmann, and earlier founded and chaired ad pepper media, an internet company that listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2000. He sits on the economic advisory boards of BayernLB and Sparkasse Nürnberg, and in recognition of his contributions to the Bavarian economy has received both the state's Staatsmedaille and its Finanzmedaille.