Change in the Supervisory Board of OVB Holding AG: Alexandra Markovic-Sobau succeeds Torsten Uhlig

Cologne, 28 July 2025 – Ms Alexandra Markovic-Sobau has been appointed by the courts as a new member of the Supervisory Board of OVB Holding AG with effect from 4 July 2025. She succeeds Torsten Uhlig, who resigned from the Supervisory Board of OVB Holding AG with effect from the end of the Annual General Meeting in June 2025 when he took over as CEO of the SIGNAL IDUNA Group on 1 July 2025.

Alexandra Markovic-Sobau brings more than 25 years of experience in the sales and marketing of insurance and financial services to the table. After holding various management positions within Continentale Krankenversicherung and the Wüstenrot & Württembergische Group, she spent more than ten years at Hallesche Krankenversicherung, where her roles included general manager and sales director. She has been executive director responsible for sales, sales service and marketing at the SIGNAL IDUNA Group since July 2025. 

"We would like to express our sincere thanks to Torsten Uhlig, who has supported OVB’s development with his expertise and industry knowledge as a member of our Supervisory Board since 2023," said Michael Johnigk, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of OVB Holding AG. "I am delighted that Alexandra Markovic-Sobau is rejoining the Supervisory Board. With her extensive experience and comprehensive knowledge of the industry, she will provide important impetus for OVB’s further business development, and she makes an ideal addition to the board. We are looking forward to working with her.”

About the OVB Group

The OVB Group, with its holding company headquartered in Cologne, is one of Europe’s leading financial advisory groups. 

Since being founded in 1970, OVB’s business activities have focused on long-term, comprehensive and above all customer-oriented financial consulting for private households. 

OVB works with more than 100 high-performance providers and uses competitive products to serve its clients’ individual needs, from subsistence and property/asset insurance to pensions and asset building and growth. 

OVB Holding AG and its German subsidiary OVB Vermögensberatung AG expressly endorse the Charter of Diversity, the largest employer initiative on the topic of diversity in German companies.

OVB currently operates in 16 European countries. 6,349 full-time financial advisors currently advise 4.76 million clients. OVB Holding AG and its subsidiaries generated brokerage income of EUR 408.6 million and EBIT of EUR 20.3 million in 2024. OVB Holding AG has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard, ISIN DE0006286560) since July 2006.