11. April 2024
People and Tech: Flix strengthens senior management team
+++ Dorit Schindler as Senior Vice President People & Organization
+++ Dr. Hanna Huber as Senior Vice President Technology
+++ Thanks to their extensive expertise in human resources and technology, they will support Flix in its strategic development in the fields of people and tech
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Travel tech company Flix is introducing two new senior management members today: Dorit Schindler is Senior Vice President for People & Organisation and Dr. Hanna Huber is Senior Vice President for Technology. Dorit Schindler joined in March and Dr. Hanna Huber in April. Investing in its people and technology has been a core aspect of Flix’s profitable growth story and continues to be so. The two new hires will enable the company to further strengthen these core areas with their extensive knowledge and skills. The new hires join in a setup reporting to Daniel Krauss, CIO and co-founder.
Dorit Schindler, Senior Vice President People & Organisation
As Senior Vice President People & Organisation at Flix, Dorit Schindler, 48, is responsible for managing the global HR department and all facets of HR strategy. She has more than 25 years of professional experience in various senior human resources positions in start-ups, SMEs, and corporations in the technology, retail, e-commerce, and automotive industries. Most recently, she was Group Chief People Officer at SIGNA Sports United (SSU), a global online sports retail company. Before joining SSU, Dorit Schindler was Director People & Organisation at Zalando SE in Berlin.”I am very much looking forward to further promoting the vibrant Flix corporate culture and using my experience to make a strategic contribution to employee recruitment, development, and retention. I have always been passionate about mobility and technology companies. The opportunity to combine this passion with sustainability and a positive corporate culture makes Flix one of the most exciting employers for me at the moment,” says Schindler.
Dr. Hanna Huber, Senior Vice President Technology
Dr. Hanna Huber, 44, is the new Senior Vice President Technology at Flix and an expert in technology strategy and the development and professionalization of tech organizations. In a career spanning more than 20 years, she was most recently Chief Information & Digital Officer of the Swiss Calida Group. Prior to that, as Group Vice President Technology Strategy, she drove the development of the Otto Group into a fully digitalized retail and services group. Before that, she held various tech management positions at Zalando – most recently she was responsible for the operationalization of Zalando’s technology strategy.
Commenting on her new role at Flix, Dr. Hanna Huber says: “Over the past few weeks, I have got to know Flix as a highly dynamic and innovative company. I look forward to working with the team to drive Flix’s further technological development. The mobility industry is facing exciting developments, and I am looking forward to contributing to shaping the future of travel tech.”
About Flix
Flix intends to transform the public transport sector by offering sustainable and affordable long-distance bus- and train travel solutions in more than 40 countries across four continents. With its asset-light business model and innovative technology platform, Flix has swiftly established a market-leading position for long-distance bus travel in Europe, North America and Türkiye and is rapidly expanding further into South America and India through its brands FlixBus, FlixTrain, Kamil Koç, and Greyhound.
Driven by increased awareness for sustainable travel, Flix aims to become carbon neutral in Europe by 2040 and globally by 2050. To assess its progress within a scientifically recognized framework, Flix established near-term targets for emissions reduction with the Science Based Targets initiative.
While Flix manages the commercial side of the business such as network planning, pricing, operations control, marketing and sales, quality management and continuous product development with a data-driven approach, trusted Flix partners conduct the daily operations. The innovative combination of Flix’s technology and sales platform with traditional passenger travel has turned a European start-up into a leading and globally expanding travel tech company.
For more information, please visit corporate.flix.com