Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Stefan Patzke is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG. Before joining Kärcher he graduated in business administration with a specialisation in industry. He began his career at Kärcher in 2002 as a specialist in Group Accounting, for which he assumed responsibility from 2007 to 2009. From 2009, he headed the Corporate Finance Group Accounting department and was appointed Executive Vice President of Controlling & Accounting in 2012. From 2016, he was an authorised signatory for the Finance, Controlling & Legal division. In 2020, Stefan Patzke was appointed as Chief Financial Officer to the Board of Management of Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG. Since 2021, he is also responsible for IT. At Kärcher, a team of 17,000 people in 87 countries and more than 170 companies is working together to make the world a cleaner place. As the market leader in cleaning technology, Kärcher globally offers solutions for cleaning and care, generating a turnover of close to 3.5 billion euros in 2025.