Coming from a business background, Alexander Mitteräcker has been with DER STANDARD for 27 years. He established the paper’s online business from a very early stage and pushed the platform ‘derstandard.at’ from a start up to the company’s most important asset. In 2000 he became managing director and then member of the management board of derstandard.at. Since 2017 he is the sole managing director of STANDARD Medien AG.