VAUDE
Hilke Anna Patzwall has extensive experience in sustainability and corporate social responsibility, currently serving as Senior Manager Sustainability & CSR at VAUDE Sport GmbH & Co. KG since October 2006. Previous roles include Assistentin des Vorstands at Hochland, Assistentin der Geschäftsleitung at Enertrag AG, and Assistentin des Vorstands in the legal department at Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG. Early career experience includes a management position in a retail business, Sport Patzwall, and work as a freelance writer focused on travel, nature, sports, and social activities. Hilke's educational background includes a Diplom-Betriebswirtin (BA) from Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University and a High School Diploma from Santa Barbara High School.
VAUDE
As a modern family-run company and Europe’s environmentally friendly outdoor supplier, VAUDE takes its social and environmental responsibility very seriously. We breathe life into this maxim in all three of our business segments: Mountain Sports, Bike Sports and Packs ‘n Bags. We have been working with the strict environmental bluesign® standard since 2001, which controls the entire textile manufacturing chain. We were also the first Outdoor company to receive EMAS certification. We will also continue to improve our environmental performance in the future and have set ourselves the goal of gradually transforming the entire product palette so that it is manufactured according to the highest standards of environmental compatibility. We are working to make (y)our world a better place. The Brand VAUDE VAUDE stands for respect in all its interaction with others and the nature around us. We have set our sight on becoming Europe’s most environmentally friendly outdoor brand, so that sportsmen and women of today, and those to come can enjoy nature to the fullest. We are pioneers in this way, challenging convention and pushing the limits of the possible. VAUDE’s roots are in mountain sports. The passion we experience on the ascent and the peace we find at the top are what drive us. Without the mountains, VAUDE wouldn’t be what it is today. It is our foundation, our brand symbol, and it stands for the high expectations we place on ourselves as a company and on our products.