From August 2023, Ralf Lehmkuhl will join the management of Sport Voswinkel on an equal footing with Marcus Neul. Lehmkuhl will be responsible for e-commerce, CRM, the entire commercial area, HR & law, IT, auditing. He takes over these tasks from Anna-Lena Schulte-Angels, who joined Sport Voswinkel as Managing Director in July 2015 and will leave the company at the end of March.
Lehmkuhl studied sports science and is an expert in the field of finance. He began his professional career at Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH, was responsible for finance and controlling as commercial manager and authorized signatory at Karstadt Sports and was responsible for SportScheck as head of controlling until 2022. Most recently, he was Head of Finance and Controlling at Bonita. According to a press release, a particular focus of his future work will be the implementation of Voswinkel’s customer-centric omnichannel strategy.
“We are very happy to have gained an experienced professional in the industry in Ralf Lehmkuhl. At the same time, we owe a great deal of thanks to Anna-Lena Schulte-Angels. With Marcus Neul, she successfully put Sport Voswinkel on course for growth. Together with her teams, she has created excellent foundations that now make Voswinkel’s future course possible. She hands over her responsibilities to Ralf Lehmkuhl. He will now continue to drive Voswinkel’s omnichannel strategy together with Marcus Neul,” emphasizes Thomas Storck, CFO and Deputy CEO of Intersport Deutschland eG and responsible for Sport Voswinkel, among other things.
According to the company website, Sport Voswinkel currently has 49 sports shops in Germany.