New executive board member at Hornbach

The supervisory board of Hornbach-Baumarkt-AG has appointed Dr Andreas Schobert to the executive board with effect from 1 January 2015. The 41-year-old business administration graduate will assume responsibility for the technology portfolio, which brings together the aspects of group-wide IT and e-business. Schobert’s appointment increases the size of the executive board from six to seven members. Schobert has been in charge of e-business since 2012 and was responsible for building up the online business of Hornbach-Baumarkt-AG internationally and developing it. Before that he spent five years in charge of marketing innovation, focusing on the development of new business fields among other things. Schobert began his career at Hornbach in 2004 as assistant to executive board chairman Steffen Hornbach.