This start-up snaps up Yvonne Rattay as head of sales

The manager comes from Visable. The new CEO is expanding the start-up's management team with her.

Yvonne Rattay will become Chief Sales Officer at the Berlin start-up Aroundhome. Rattay announced her move to the provider of home-related services on LinkedIn. "Aroundhome is a company that has achieved absolutely remarkable business development since it was founded 13 years ago and has exceptional potential," writes the manager. Rattay comes from Visable (formerly "Wer liefert was"), a platform for suppliers and business customers. She worked there for eight years, most recently as VP Internal Sales. In 2010, Rattay founded Loveyy, an online store for baby fashion.

"Yvonne brings extensive experience from her previous roles at Visable and Tchibo, which will enable us to succeed on our journey to become the go-to resource for all homeowners in Germany and beyond who want to make investment decisions in their homes," Aroundhome CEO Moritz Kothe also writes on LinkedIn. Both are likely to know each other from Tchibo. Rattay worked there from 1999 to 2010, most recently as Head of Sales. Kothe also worked for Tchibo in middle management for five years from 2003.

Aroundhome is Germany's largest broker for home-related services and was founded in 2006 by Robin Behlau and Mario Kohle under the name Käuferportal. The company works with more than 16,000 partner companies. Aroundhome has been part of the NuCom Group, the holding company of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, for four years. Behlau was CEO of the company until February of this year, when Kothe joined from Kununu and has been managing the company's business since then. According to the company website, Aroundhome has not yet had a CSO. In addition to Kothe, the board has grown to a total of five people. Founder Behlau now sits on Aroundhome's advisory board.