Director Corporate Venturing at REHAU New Ventures
Ronja Stoffregen is Director Corporate Venturing at REHAU New Ventures. In this role, she leads the strategic setup and scaling of the company’s Corporate Venturing activities, including Venture Clienting, Corporate VC, and selective Venture Building across REHAU’s business divisions. REHAU is a leading developer of polymer-based solutions for the construction, automotive, and industrial sectors. Her focus lies in building a high-impact, cross-functional ecosystem that systematically collaborates with startups and deploys innovation at scale within a family-owned industrial company. “I appreciate the sweet spot of my work with startups, corporates, and investors. A smart combination of those three stakeholders ends in a triple-win scenario by building ecosystems. My job and goal are to achieve that."
Before joining REHAU, she was Head of Global Startup Management at DB Schenker, where she built a global venture client unit, responsible for 160+ pilot projects with startups, of which 55 have been implemented into standard operations.
Prior to this position, she co-founded an international company builder to co-create, build, and design new digital business ideas into future-ready organizations together with a broad range of corporate customers and startups, mostly from the mobility, logistics, or healthcare ecosystems.
Her passion lies within the business model of young ventures: she dedicated her PhD research topic to the business model field to further understand “what and how to pivot”. She holds a master’s degree in finance and strategic management from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, with exchange semesters at Harvard University, US, and EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico, and a bachelor’s degree in international business from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
She is a guest lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and the University of St. Gallen (HSG), and a caring mentor and business advisor to diverse startups, accelerators, and organizations. “I am strongly convinced of two things: having team players on board is key, and going the extra mile often pays off.”
