Dr. Matthias Kirschenhofer has been Managing Director of Sport1 Medien GmbH (until January 2025: Sport1 Medien AG) and previously Co-CEO and Board Member of Sport1 Medien AG (formerly Constantin Medien AG) since 2017. In his function he is responsible, amongst others, for the areas of Legal, Compliance, Finance and Investor Relations. In parallel, he continues to be Managing Director of Sport1 GmbH and Jackpot50 GmbH.

Following his law studies at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Dr Matthias Kirschenhofer worked as an attorney at an accounting and public law firm from 1998 to 2000. In 2001, he joined the former DSF Deutsches SportFernsehen GmbH (today Sport1 GmbH) as a legal adviser and was appointed Head of the Legal Department of the TV broadcaster in 2002. Parallel to this, he was Managing Director of DSF SportMarketing GmbH from 2002 until 2003. Since 2007, Dr Kirschenhofer, as General Counsel, was responsible for the areas Law, Regulations and Distribution and starting in 2010 also for the executive office of Constantin Medien AG (today Sport1 Medien GmbH). Since 2013, Dr Matthias Kirschenhofer has been acting as Managing Director of Sport1 GmbH (until the integration of marketing and sales in Sport1 GmbH in December 2019 as Managing Director of the former Sport1 Media GmbH).