Dr. Patrick Andrae is the CEO of HomeToGo. Dr. Andrae was born in 1981 in Hanover, Germany. Dr. Andrae studied law at the Universities of Würzburg and Goettingen and graduated with the first state exam in law in 2007. In parallel he studied business administration at the Private University of Applied Sciences (PFH) Göttingen and graduated in 2008 with an equivalent to a bachelor degree (Dipl.-Betriebswirt (FH)). Dr. Andrae obtained the second state exam in law after his legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) Hamburg in 2012. He has been admitted to the German Bar since 2012 and obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Muenster in 2013. He started working at the age of 16 as a web developer for a local internet service provider, and later for clients mainly in the U.S.. In the later years of his education, he worked in parallel on a project basis for European Founders and Rocket Internet SE. During his PhD he also worked in 2009/2010 for the law firm Hogan Lovells prior to joining Home24 as Director Business Development. In 2014 he co-founded HomeToGo GmbH as CEO and has been holding this position since then.