The Supervisory Boards of HORNBACH Baumarkt AG and HORNBACH Management AG appointed Joanna Kowalska as a new member of their Boards of Management and as Chief Financial Officer of both companies as of August 15, 2025.
Joanna Kowalska will receive a contract with a three-year term. Until the new CFO officially assumes her position, Albrecht Hornbach and Erich Harsch will continue to manage the finance departments at HORNBACH Management AG and HORNBACH Baumarkt AG respectively on an interim basis.
Joanna Kowalska (47) began her career in 2001 at the auditing firm and tax consultancy KPMG in Düsseldorf, where she successfully qualified as a tax consultant in 2005. In 2008, Joanna Kowalska moved to the OBI Group in Wermelskirchen (Germany), where she held various international management positions in the finance department, including as Director of Group Accounting, Tax & Transfer Pricing, and was a member of the General Management Team. From April 2022, she was responsible as Managing Director, Senior Vice President, and member of the extended Management Board for corporate financial management, transformation initiatives, as well as group-wide financial and reporting processes.
HORNBACH Management said in December 2024 that Karin Dohm, a member of the Board of Management and Chief Financial Officer of the HORNBACH Group, was prematurely standing down from her position at the HORNBACH Group. The relevant Supervisory Board of HORNBACH Management AG approved her departure no later than March 31, 2025.
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