Tobias Hartmann

Chief Executive OfficerMember of the Management Board and Executive Leadership Team

• Year of birth: 1972
• Nationality: German

Tobias Hartmann has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Scout24 Group since 19 November 2018. He is responsible for managing the entire operational business.

Tobias Hartmann has more than two decades of international management experience in launching, developing and growing consumer product and platform solutions businesses. He has worked for both privately held and publicly listed companies in Europe and the USA. Hartmann was a member of the executive management board and president US at HelloFresh SE, the world's leading meal kit company. During his tenure, the company became market leader in the USA in 2018. Previously, Tobias Hartmann was president of US-based Radial Inc., a multinational provider of Omni-Channel eCommerce solutions formerly part of eBay Inc. Born in Augsburg, he was also a member of the executive management team at Loyalty Partner GmbH to launch "Payback", one of the world’s leading loyalty platforms.

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Dr Claudia Viehweger

Chief People & Sustainability OfficerMember of the Executive Leadership Team

• Year of birth: 1974

• Nationality: German

Dr Claudia Viehweger has been Chief People & Sustainability Officer (CPSO) of Scout24 since June 2021 and is thus responsible for the Group’s entire human resources activities as well as the topics of Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion and Central Administration & Facility Management. Viehweger, who holds a doctorate in law, started her career as a specialist in employment law at Raue LLP in Berlin before joining Axel Springer SE as an in-house lawyer in 2011. Further positions at Axel Springer followed, including Head of Human Resources at the WELT editorial office. Most recently, Viehweger was Chief Human Resources Officer at Axel Springer National Media & Tech, where she was responsible for the HR topics of Axel Springer's digital brands. Viehweger also held the position of Vice President People & Culture at Axel Springer for the entire “News Media National” segment.

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Dr Dirk Schmelzer

Chief Financial OfficerMember of the Management Board and Executive Leadership Team

• Year of birth: 1967
• Nationality: German

Dr Dirk Schmelzer is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Scout24 Group. In this function he is responsible for Finance, Treasury, Tax, Controlling, Procurement & Facilities and Investor Relations. Dr. Dirk Schmelzer joined Scout24 in June 2019. Previously he was CFO of the NuCom Group, a subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 and Private Equity Investor General Atlantic. For more than six years prior to that, he was CFO of the public listed company Tomorrow Focus AG and its spin-off company HolidayCheck Group AG, which operates the largest German hotel rating portal. Prior to this, he was CFO in the telecommunications industry, namely at Telefónica Deutschland GmbH and HanseNet GmbH. With a doctorate in political economy, he began his professional career in 1997 as a controller, and later in various management positions within the finance sector at the predecessor companies of Telefónica O2 (Germany).

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Dr. Gesa Crockford

Managing Director ImmoScout24Member of the Executive Leadership Team

• Year of birth: 1974
• Nationality: German

Dr Gesa Crockford has been Managing Director of ImmoScout24 since April 2022 and has since been responsible for the sales organisation, customer service, customer relationship management and pricing. Previously, she had held various management positions in the company since 2016, including in the areas of Pricing, Product & Analytics and in the subsidiary Flowfact.

With a doctorate in business administration, she can look back on more than 20 years of experience in the design and transformation of business models, pricing and corporate strategy.  As managing director of a marketing and strategy consultancy, she worked for ten years in particular for companies in the field of e-commerce and digital business. Before that, she developed pricing strategies, structures and processes for large, globally active companies in the logistics and chemical industries at Simon Kucher & Partners.

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Dr Thomas Schroeter

Chief Product OfficerMember of the Management Board and Executive Leadership Team

• Year of birth: 1978
• Nationality: German/Swedish

Dr Thomas Schroeter has been Chief Product Officer of the Scout24 Group since December 2018 and is thus responsible for the entire product development and marketing. The proven digital expert has been Managing Director of ImmoScout24 since 2017. Since February 2018, he has headed the company in dual leadership with Ralf Weitz. The business graduate has many years of experience in the digital economy, both in the corporate and start-up environment. Previously, Thomas Schroeter was Chief Operating Officer Germany for eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, and Managing Director of ViA-Online GmbH. He was also co-founder and managing director of the language portal bab.la, which was successfully sold to Oxford University Press in 2015. During his career, he also worked at the Swiss bank Clariden Leu AG and the Boston Consulting Group in Munich.

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Dr Christian Ronge

General CounselMember of the Executive Leadership Team

• Year of birth: 1980

• Nationality: German

Dr Christian Ronge has been General Counsel since September 2019 and is thus responsible for all legal matters of Scout24 SE, including data protection and compliance. Christian Ronge was previously Head of Legal Digital at Ströer, where he was responsible for the legal advice of the group's publishing and online marketing business as well as data protection. Previous positions include working for E.ON and Uniper on corporate and capital markets matters, including complex structural measures. Ronge began his career as a lawyer in the corporate / M&A team of Allen & Overy.

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Ralf Weitz

Chief Product & Technology OfficerMember of the Management Board and Executive Leadership Team

• Year of birth: 1977
• Nationality: German

Ralf Weitz has been Chief Product & Technology Officer of the Scout24 Group since January 2023 and is thus responsible for the Group's product, marketing, tech and data organisation under one roof. Previously, Ralf Weitz was Chief Commercial Officer of the Scout24 Group since December 2018, responsible for all sales activities of the Scout24 marketplaces. He has been with Scout24 for over ten years in various management positions. Since February 2018, he has also been Managing Director of ImmoScout24.

With a degree in economics, he played a key role in building up the Scout24 Consumer Services business segment, which has become an important growth driver for the Group under his leadership. After studying economics in Berlin, Ralf Weitz worked in consulting in an international environment, among other things.

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