Lennart Schmidt joins the AUTODOC Management Board as CFO

Sandra Dax moves back to the Supervisory Board as per contract

Berlin, 26. September 2023 – AUTODOC, a leading online retailer of automotive spare parts and accessories in Europe, has announced that Lennart Schmidt will join the company’s Management Board as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from 01 October 2023. Schmidt joined AUTODOC in January  2022 and was promoted to CFO in January 2023. By resolution of the Supervisory Board, he and Dmitry Zadorojnii now make up the Management Board of AUTODOC SE. Zadorojnii was appointed co-CEO with Sandra Dax last October and will now be the sole CEO. He has been with AUTODOC since 2011 and was Chief Technology Officer at the company before joining the Management Board. Sandra Dax, who had moved from the Supervisory Board to the Management Board, will take up her position there again in accordance with her contract.

In the past twelve months, the dual leadership under Zadorojnii and Dax has initiated numerous changes and further professionalised structures and processes at AUTODOC. In particular, Sandra Dax, as an expert in digital companies and transformation processes, AUTODOC implemented structural reforms and a new leadership culture. Dmitry Zadorojnii, CEO of AUTODOC says: “Sandra has made an invaluable impact on our company over the past year. We are immensely grateful to Sandra for her commitment and are very pleased that she will continue to lend us her expertise on the Supervisory Board.”

Alexej Erdle, Supervisory Board member and co-founder of AUTODOC, says: “Sandra and Dmitry have made a lot of things happen at AUTODOC in the past year. Our company is now in a much better position than twelve months ago. Among other things, it has gained a leaner and optimised organisational and cost structure. I would like to sincerely thank them both for this. With Lennart Schmidt, we have appointed a top financial expert to the Management Board who knows AUTODOC very well and will continue to drive the implementation of our growth strategy. We are very much looking forward to seeing that.”

Lennart Schmidt, CFO and new board member of AUTODOC, says: “AUTODOC, as a leading European e-commerce company, is one of the most exciting success stories of recent years. Since joining the company almost two years ago, I have been inspired by its entrepreneurial spirit and ambitious plans. As a new board member, I am very excited about my task of continuing AUTODOC’s success story together with Dmitry and the whole AUTODOC team.”

The new Management Board aims to further advance the ambitious growth targets of the company, which celebrated its 15th anniversary this year. Back in May, AUTODOC opened a new location in Lisbon, which is intended to be the company’s largest tech hub in the long term. In June, AUTODOC centralised the EU Category Management division at the new company location in Luxembourg, which is now coordinated from there throughout Europe. The fourth quarter will also see the opening of a new logistics hub in Cheb, in the Czech Republic.