Petra Scharner-Wolff has been a new CEO and CEO of Otto Group since the beginning of March, taking over the post of Alexander Birken. Birken takes over the chair of the Otto Group supervisory board from Dr. Michael Otto.
Scharner-Wolff has been a member of the group board since 2015. After stations as a management consultant at the Nymphenburg group, she switched to Otto Group in 1999 in Hamburg. From 2022 she was responsible for controlling all group companies worldwide as director of Group Controlling. Katy Roewer, previous department head, will be responsible for her succession as CFO.
“Petra Scharner-Wolff is a very strong leader and is characterized by her great experience, entrepreneurial skill, her sharp mind and her empathetic understanding of people and culture,” says Michael Otto, chairman of the foundation and shareholder council and honorary chairman of the supervisory board of the Otto Group. “As a CFO, she has helped to control the Otto Group in a crucial place in recent years through extremely challenging and changeable times. Petra Scharner-Wolff brings all the prerequisites to continue to successfully successfully organize the future of the group. ”
Regarding the exit from the board of Alexander Birken, Otto says: “Alexander Birken controlled the Otto Group as CEO with strategic foresight, a clear vision, leadership competence and great sense of responsibility through heavy lake. He also exemplifies our claim to reconcile value -oriented action and economic success. On behalf of the shareholders, I would like to thank Alexander Birken for his extraordinary commitment and his successful work for the Otto Group. I am pleased that he will bring his broad entrepreneurial experience on the supervisory board as my successor in the chair. ”
