HomeToGo SE

Dr. Patrick Andrae is the CEO of HomeToGo. Dr. Andrae was born in 1981 in Hanover, Germany. Dr. Andrae studied law at the Universities of Würzburg and Goettingen and graduated with the first state exam in law in 2007. In parallel he studied business administration at the Private University of Applied Sciences (PFH) Göttingen and graduated in 2008 with an equivalent to a bachelor degree (Dipl.-Betriebswirt (FH)). Dr. Andrae obtained the second state exam in law after his legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) Hamburg in 2012. He has been admitted to the German Bar since 2012 and obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Muenster in 2013. He started working at the age of 16 as a web developer for a local internet service provider, and later for clients mainly in the U.S.. In the later years of his education, he worked in parallel on a project basis for European Founders and Rocket Internet SE. During his PhD he also worked in 2009/2010 for the law firm Hogan Lovells prior to joining Home24 as Director Business Development. In 2014 he co-founded HomeToGo GmbH as CEO and has been holding this position since then.

Wolfgang Heigl is the Co-founder & CSO of HomeToGo. He was born in 1969 in Schwabmünchen, Germany. Mr. Heigl has a tax accountant background. Since 1999 Mr. Heigl founded and invested in several companies and startups. He was the founder and CMO of Swoodoo AG (from March 2005 until May 2010), the CMO and managing director for EMEA at KAYAK Europe GmbH (from May 2010 until July 2012), the founder of NFQ Technologies UAB (from March 2002 until today) and a co-founder of HomeToGo GmbH in March 2014.

Valentin Gruber is the Chief Operating Officer of HomeToGo. He was born in 1990 in Stuttgart, Germany. Mr. Gruber studied Business Administration at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany. In 2012, Mr. Gruber graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Aside from various previous internships, Mr. Gruber started his first employment as Head of International Operations at audibene GmbH. From 2015 to 2018 Mr. Gruber was then-appointed CEO, President and Managing Director of hear.com LLC, a subsidiary of Sivantos Inc. and an affiliated company of audibene GmbH. Following his appointment in the U.S., Mr. Gruber headed the German organization (audibene GmbH) as Country Head Germany until leaving the company in May 2019 to join HomeToGo GmbH as Chief Revenue Officer in June 2019.

Steffen Schneider is the CFO of HomeToGo. Mr. Schneider studied business administration at Berufsakademie Mannheim, now DHBW Mannheim and graduated in 1995 with a bachelor degree (Dipl-Betriebswirt (BA)). In parallel he worked at Dresdner Bank, now Commerzbank, in their commercial and consumer banking operations. In 1999, Mr. Schneider obtained an MBA from London Business School. Following the MBA, he started as Associate in the Investment Banking division of Citigroup where he advised clients on IPOs, bond issuances as well as M&A. In 2006, Mr. Schneider was promoted to Director. In 2008, Mr. Schneider joined Fox Corporate Finance as Managing Director advising companies on financings and various advisory topics. In 2014, he became CFO and member of the Management Board of Frankfurt Prime Standard listed SFC Energy AG. In 2017, Mr. Schneider became CFO and Managing Director of sonnen GmbH and subsequently of sonnen Holding GmbH. Following the successful sale of venture financed sonnen Holding GmbH to Shell in 2019 and subsequent integration into Shell New Energies, he joined HomeToGo GmbH in 2020.