Annika Farin

Chair of The Amrop Partnership, Managing Partner Hamburg

Annika Farin

Annika Farin is Chair of The Amrop Partnership. She is Founding Partner of Amrop in Germany and core member of Amrop’s global Leadership Services, Consumer and Financial Services Practices.

Prior to joining Amrop, Annika founded her own executive search and development firm, with a focus on global companies going through significant leadership transformations. Prior to that she was a Managing Director at Amrop from 2007 to 2010, where she co-headed the global Leadership Development and Assessment Practice.

From 1996 to 2003, Annika has worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company – as an Engagement Manager she focused on Change Management, HR Excellence Projects, Company Culture as well as Growth and Organization, working across industries. Thereafter she held two executive positions: first as a Senior Vice President at Infineon AG, heading “People and Organization” and at Tchibo AG as Head of Corporate Human Resources.

Annika has about 15 years of experience as a Partner in Executive Search and Development and has conducted very senior work in both areas, among them post-Merger Integration, senior executive review processes and the establishment of talent management in client organisations.

In her work she believes in bespoke, thorough solutions with a ‘make happen attitude’.

Annika studied Business Administration at the European School of Management (EAP), Paris, Oxford, Berlin. She holds a degree as Diplom-Kauffrau/ Diplome Grande Ecole and has undertaken post-graduate studies in Psychology at the London School of Economics.