Katharina Rath becomes Chief People Officer at Voith

HEIDENHEIM, GERMANY. On July 1, 2025, Katharina Rath takes over the newly created position of Chief People Officer at the Voith Group. In this role, she will align the company's corporate culture and global human resources strategy for the future.

Katharina Rath has extensive experience in the field of Human Resources and has successfully realigned HR strategies and implemented transformation processes in her more than twenty-year international career as Chief People Officer, member of global executive boards and as an advisory board member in various companies.

“I am very pleased that with Katharina Rath we have been able to gain a top manager for Voith who will drive the further development of our corporate and leadership culture,” says Dirk Hoke, CEO Voith Group.

Personal profile
Katharina Rath has an international career at Siemens AG, Continental AG and DB Schenker AG, where she was most recently a member of the Global Management Board and Chief People Officer. In this role, she primarily supported transformation strategies and developed and introduced new, modern human resource strategies. Katharina Rath is also a member of the advisory board of Workday, a leading provider of AI-supported enterprise applications for finance and HR, and a founding member and board member of NextGen Board.