Bergzeit has appointed Teresa Schuster as a second managing director alongside Martin Stolzenberger, effective August 2025. For the company, this means a return to a leadership model with a two-person top management, which had existed from 2018 to 2023, as the outdoor company announced at the end of July.
The trained business informatician and former management consultant Schuster has been with Bergzeit since 2022. In November 2024 she was promoted to COO and deputy managing director, and most recently was responsible, among other things, for
the areas of Logistics, Customer Care and Payment & Projects. In her new role she will also take over the People & Sustainability and Finance portfolios.
Martin Stolzenberger described the expansion as a consistent step:
„We have known Teresa Schuster for almost a year as a strong, visionary, and responsible colleague in the deputy managing director role. The formal expansion creates clarity in the allocation of responsibilities and enhances transparency toward our employees, partners and stakeholders.“
Teresa Schuster herself looks to the new responsibility with
confidence:
„We are already working on an equal footing as a closely coordinated team with the same passion for the company and the industry. In the official dual leadership, we will in the future gain even more speed and clarity—two decisive criteria in the e-commerce business. I look forward to the new responsibility and to actively further developing our engaged and responsible team.“
Parallel to the expansion of the management Bergzeit is establishing the new „Logistics“ department. Thomas Lechl will take over leadership of the
new department, who has been with the company since 2018 and previously worked as „Head of Logistics“. In his new role as Chief Logistics Officer, he is to strategically further develop the department.
Teresa Schuster emphasizes the importance of this step:
„With the company's growth, the complexity in logistics also increases, and our requirements for supply chain and goods flow management rise as well. The creation of a standalone department is therefore a forward-looking step to meet the growing importance of logistics for our company's
