Sport Group Holding
Andreas Rister has a diverse work experience spanning over several companies and roles. Andreas is currently the Director Legal & Compliance Global at Sport Group Holding since June 2022. Prior to this, they briefly worked as an RA at the same company. From 2013 to 2022, they held various positions at HOERBIGER Deutschland Holding GmbH, including Head of Legal for multiple Business Units and Group Shared Services, as well as Leader of the Competence Centre Automotive Branch. Before that, they worked at HOERBIGER Antriebstechnik Holding GmbH as the Head of Legal and Patents for their Antriebstechnik Division. Andreas also served as the Head of Legal at HOERBIGER Antriebstechnik GmbH. Andreas started their career as a lawyer at Rechtsanwaltskanzlei B & Coll before working as an Interim-Manager of Law at Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. Andreas began their professional journey as a Fähnrich der Reserve, Offizieranwärter in the Bundeswehr from 1988 to 1990.
Andreas Rister completed their undergraduate studies in Law (Rechtswissenschaft) at Heidelberg University from 1990 to 1994. Andreas then pursued further legal training as a practitioner (Volljurist) during their time in Rheinland-Pfalz from 1995 to 1997. In addition to their legal studies, Andreas also took courses in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Ruperto Carola Heidelberg in 1995. In 2002, they attended a specialized training program (Fachanwaltslehrgang) in Labor Law. Most recently, in 2018, Andreas undertook another specialized training program, this time in Information Technology.
Sport Group Holding
Sport Group is the world’s largest and greenest business dedicated to sport surfaces. The Group provides synthetic turf sport fields, athletic tracks, courts and recreation areas in over 70 countries, and uniquely covers the complete value chain, including R&D, chemicals, manufacturing and installation. With headquarters in Burgheim, Germany, the Group’s corporate brands include Polytan, AstroTurf, Melos, APT and SYNLawn, and world-leading global product brands such as LigaTurf (football turf), Poligras (hockey turf), Rekortan (tracks) and Laykold (courts). Notable recent projects include tennis courts for the US Open, hockey turf for Paris 2024, soccer turf for Bayern Munich, American football turf for University of Washington and baseball turf for the Toronto Blue Jays. Sport Group is committed to green technology and has received an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Risk Rating Score of 12.7 from Sustainalytics. This places Sport Group in the top 6% of companies globally. Sport Group’s strength is sustainable products and services, for example LigaTurf Cross GT zero, is the world’s first carbon neutral football turf, and Poligras Paris GT zero, is hockey’s first carbon zero hockey turf and has been chosen for the Paris Olympics