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We give customers what they need to make secure online purchase decisions around the office and at home: It was with this idea and a lot of pioneering spirit that Robin Behlau and Mario Kohle founded “Käuferportal” in 2008. In just ten years, as befits the name, the Aroundhome start-up became Germany's largest broker of products and services around the home.
Since 2021, under the leadership of Moritz Kothe, the company, with its 300 employees, has been breaking new ground in terms of service, individual consulting and the brokerage of selected, regional specialist companies with the aim of finding the right match between customers and those specialist firms.
What drives us: The desire of home owners to make the right decisions in large and complex projects in their homes. After all, although owning a property means independence, maintaining it is a big commitment in terms of responsibility, costs, and time.
Our mission: To use our expertise to simplify the lives of owners in all major projects around their home.
This is Aroundhome – we’re there for you when it comes to house and home.
My goal is to position Aroundhome in such a way that our actions and all our decisions are aligned with our customers and their needs at all times. It’s important to me that we build on our existing strengths and actively develop our team and organization. At the same time, I’d like to promote a culture in which, alongside customer orientation, transparency and personal responsibility are lived out every single day. At the end of the day, it’s the people working there who make the difference between a merely good and a sensational company. “You’re only as good as the people you hire” – that’s my firm conviction.
Hamburg-born Moritz Kothe has been Chief Executive Officer at Aroundhome since April 2021. From 2016 to 2021, he worked as CEO at the Boston, USA, and Hamburg offices of kununu, which he developed into Europe’s leading employer rating portal. Prior to that, he held leading positions with the professional networking platform Xing and the German retailer Tchibo, among others.
As CFO, I see myself as a strategic business partner to the operational management team with a focus on growth, employee development, and entrepreneurship. My goal is to work with my team to create sustainable values for Aroundhome and achieve the defined corporate goals using the right key figures. I see my task as a manager to build up and develop high-performance and successful commercial and operational teams.
Thomas Bruns has been a Director and Chief Financial Officer of Aroundhome since September 2021. For the previous 10 years, he worked as a member of the board and CFO of the listed company MyHammer, in which capacity he succeeded in increasing the company’s value from under € 10 million to over € 160 million.
My team and I are building a next-generation technology platform at Aroundhome that will offer our users and partners a first-class service. Our passion is for a simple and lean software architecture and, with it, the satisfaction of developers, data and PaaS. I’m a strong advocate of the leader-leader model and agile ways of working, along the lines of: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” (Michael Jordan).
Portuguese-born Hélder Martins has been Chief Technology Officer at Aroundhome since 2021. He developed his first software at the age of 15 and has been leading technology teams at kununu and Paddy Power Betfair, among other places, since 2001. During his time as Managing Director and Head of Technology at Paddy Power Betfair, he won several national “Best Place to Work” awards.
As the person responsible for the business and sales area, the focus of my actions is on our partners. It’s particularly important to me to work with them in the long term and for us to grow together. We work every day with a strong sales team to convince our partners of the benefits of our product and bring about the perfect match with our customers.
As Chief Sales Officer, Yvonne Rattay has been responsible for the strategic realignment of sales at Aroundhome since June 2021. She can look back on 25 years of sales experience, including time spent as Vice President Internal Sales at Visable and in various sales management positions at Tchibo. Between 2010 and 2014, the Hamburg native ran her own company, Loveyy GmbH, a trading company for children’s equipment.
Wir bauen Aroundhome zu Deutschlands größtem Online-Makler für Produkte und Dienstleistungen rund ums Haus auf. Als CPO reichen meine Interessen daher von Technologie über Design bis hin zur „Kunst“, Dinge zu erledigen. Mein Leitsatz: Whatever the problem, be part of the solution.
Patrick Roelofs complements the management at Aroundhome as Chief Product Officer. Prior to that, he was Vice President Product & UX at Lotto24 AG (part of the ZEAL Group) and spent more than five years as Director Product at XING.com. There he developed and managed attractive product solutions and profitable new business areas in both the B2C and B2B sectors.
Meine Leidenschaft ist es, gemeinsam mit meinem Team dafür zu sorgen, dass wir bei Aroundhome jeden Tag unsere Kund:innen in den Mittelpunkt unseres Denkens und Handelns stellen. Unser Ziel ist es, mit guten Empfehlungen Hausbesitzer:innen dabei zu unterstützen, bessere Entscheidungen zu treffen. Besonders wichtig sind mir dabei ein hohes Maß an Eigenverantwortlichkeit sowie eine konstruktive Fehlerkultur, damit wir jeden Tag dazulernen.
Tilman Rotberg ist seit 2020 bei Aroundhome, zuletzt als Senior Vice President. Zuvor war er 16 Jahre in verschiedenen leitenden Rollen bei dem Marktforschungsunternehmen GfK in Nürnberg und San Francisco, USA tätig. Dort hat er unter anderem an der Entwicklung wegweisender digitaler Produkte gearbeitet (gfknewron) sowie die weltweit größten Technologie- und Medienunternehmen hinsichtlich ihrer Marketing- und Produktstrategien beraten, immer mit dem Ziel, die Wünsche und Bedürfnisse der Verbraucher:innen in den Mittelpunkt zu stellen.
Yvonne Rattay (CSO), Patrick Roelofs (CPO), Thomas Bruns (CFO) and Hélder Martins (CTO) round off the new management team at Aroundhome.
The company moves to Potsdamer Platz.
Mario Kohle joins the Advisory Board, Behlau remains as sole CEO.
Diversity is great – we’re committed to creating an integrated diversity that encourages employees to develop professionally and individually and gives them the freedom to be unique and authentic.
Aroundhome is a challenge, it’s family, laughter, tears, enthusiasm, the unconditional urge to move forward and the unconditional will to get better and better.
All this is a daily experience for me, and that’s why I love going to work every day. I feel both challenged and encouraged and always get lots of appreciation. That’s why Aroundhome is the place to be for me.
I’ve been working for Aroundhome for almost 10 years, and that probably speaks for itself. I still feel as happy and at ease as I did the first day. In the end, it’s more than just an employer for me, because here I feel that I’m an important part of the whole. I work every day with people who I count as friends or even family. Definitely a perfect match for me. <3
At Aroundhome, team spirit and personal responsibility are particularly important.
In this environment, I don’t just have the chance to develop professionally and personally from day to day – I’m also constantly growing by rising to new challenges and can work on exciting projects.
If you imagine a place where there’s something suitable for everyone, everyone’s working together to achieve the same goal, where support isn’t just an empty word, but something lived out in everyday life, where I can be myself and at the same time a valuable part of the group, where passion and fun add spice to what we do, then that sounds and tastes like Aroundhome.
What moves me is the warmth, reliability, and helpfulness of the staff at Aroundhome.
I’ve really found my feet here and always have opportunities to develop, learn, and grow. I’m now running the People & Culture department where I work every day with a lot of passion and heart to ensure that our best employees are in the right place. This is the key to our success.
Making a difference together:
One Team. One Mission.
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Show us your energy! With your unique experience and perspective, you will actively contribute to our success. With us you’ll get the chance to learn from mistakes, take responsibility, and grow. Get to know the team and see for yourself what kind of career awaits you.
Every employee contributes to the success of the company with individual skills and their own approach. What unites us: We compete as a team and achieve our shared goals with skill, courage, and passion. Join our team and find out what it means to realize a vision!
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Eine Marke der be Around GmbH.
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