Xayn reorganizes management team

The Berlin-based company is getting an HR manager at Management Board level. A proven start-up expert is also joining the team.

The Berlin start-up Xayn has made two changes at management level. Beatrice Kahl, who was previously Head of HR, has now been promoted internally to Chief People Officer. Before her time at Xayn, the HR specialist worked for management consultants Deloitte and Deutsche Telekom, among others. Ruth Rothmaler is a brand new addition to the start-up. She will become Chief Product & Design Officer. Rothmaler can look back on almost 15 years of professional experience in the start-up world. Among other things, she was the second employee at Delivery Hero.

"The new appointments fill us with pride: two recognized experts in their field are enriching the top management and will drive Xayn forward with their professional acumen and leadership qualities," says Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, co-founder and CEO. "We are also pleased that we are taking important steps towards more diversity." The second management tier already has equal representation, and now a change is also taking place at the top level.

Xayn has developed what it claims is a privacy-friendly search engine. It provides users with personalized search results and a curated news stream, without advertising or data storage. The AI company began as a research project at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London by Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Michael Huth. Together with Felix Hahmann, they founded the tech company in Berlin in 2017.