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After holding senior positions in various departments of the Horn & Co. Group, Argjend Kameraj is embarking on a new chapter as of December 15, 2021. In doing so, he remains loyal to his professional home—with which he has been closely associated since 2007. This is a particularly moving step, not only for Kameraj, who had to leave his homeland as a child.
“The universe is not made of atoms, but of stories.” The life story of Argjend Kameraj clearly demonstrates that there is a great deal of truth in this quote by the writer Muriel Rukeyser. For his life story is also a chapter of contemporary history that touches the lives of many others. In 1992, at the age of 12, Argjend Kameraj fled the Serbian regime—and thus his homeland of Kosovo—with his family. After stops in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands, the family arrived in Germany. After graduating from high school and a successful stint in national youth soccer, which unfortunately had to end due to injury, Argjend began studying business informatics at the University of Siegen, graduating in 2007 with a degree in business informatics. That same year, he joined the Horn & Co. Group.
It was a successful and special time for the business IT specialist. He held a series of leadership positions in a wide variety of areas within the family business: from heading the IT, HR, and finance departments and being granted power of attorney, to serving as managing director of several companies within the Horn & Co. Group, and finally becoming a member of the executive board as part of the SE (European Company) formation in 2019.
Anyone who views this career solely through the lens of professional achievement doesn’t know Argjend Kameraj. He is what you might casually call a “good guy.” A team player and a family man who doesn’t think or work in terms of hierarchies, but who knows that everyone is always in the same boat and that everything is interconnected. Argjend Kameraj is a textbook example of a primus inter pares. He enjoys the full trust of all co-owners of the Horn & Co. Group and, as a new shareholder, will be even more closely connected to the company in the future.
Actually, none of this comes as a surprise. After all, the topic of “raw materials” was practically in his blood from the start. His first name, Argjend, actually originates from the word “argentum”—Latin for silver.
