Hermann is a digital-publishing expert with many years of experience within the publishing industry. Having studied German and history, he held a number of sales positions at the sheet-music publisher Baerenreiter and and Oxford University Press before acting as managing director at the renowned music publisher C. F. Peters from 2010 to 2106. After an interim period at the Medienforen Leipzig, Hermann led tolino media as managing director from 2017 to 2022. In that role, he was primarily responsible for significantly expanding tolino’s self-publishing business. Since late 2022, he has worked as a self-employed consultant, trainer, lecturer and speaker, supporting publishing companies and bookdealers in the various dimensions of their digital transformation. Continuing this freelance work, in September 2024 Hermann also took over as Chief Digital Officer at ArchiTangle, a young publisher for books on architecture that is also developing digital-publishing solutions based on blockchain technology. Besides that he has been heavily engaged in voluntarily work as co-spokesperson of the digital work group within the German book-trade association, driving digital change within the industry in this role, too.