Obi adds five new board members

Obi has significantly expanded its board. Having previously consisted of just two people, Sergio Giroldi as CEO and Oliver Geiling (CFO), the new board of the German market leader now has seven members.
The new additions are Franz-Peter Tepaß as chief sales officer for Central Europe (Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia), Sebastian Gundel as chief customer officer with responsibility for defining the customer offering, channel management and customer communication (he continues in his role as country director for Obi Austria), Markus Vieler as chief sourcing officer with responsibility for all Obi's sourcing-related activities (also retaining his post as country director of Obi Poland), Oliver Tackmann as chief IT & logistics officer and Dr Gonn Weide as chief strategy & implementation officer.