Gerd Kerkhoff is chief executive officer of Kerkhoff Consulting. He is responsible for the company's national and international strategic business development. After his studies, Gerd Kerkhoff had first been a managing director in a medium-sized company and the founder of trading companies for brand-name articles. Together with his wife Stefanie, he founded Kerkhoff Consulting in 1999 as one of the first purchasing consultancies worldwide.

As the commercial managing director, Stefanie Kerkhoff is responsible for the strategic international activities in the corporate divisions Finances and Associated Companies as well as Personnel and Personnel Development.

As the managing director Projects, Christian Michalak is responsible for project-crossing planning and control of consultancy contracts for the optimization of purchasing. Christian Michalak joined Kerkhoff Consulting as a consultant in 2000 and thus accompanied the company's entire development from very early on.

As Senior Partner, Daniel Bäumler is responsible for the control of purchasing projects. The qualified industrial engineer worked as freelance executive consultant for SAP and as strategic buyer for Hewlett-Packard.

As a Senior Partner, Michael Betzien is responsible for the control of all projects for process optimization. Since 2004, Betzien has been working for Kerkhoff Consulting, most recently as the head of the excellence team "Organization and Processes". The business graduate [Diplom-Kaufmann] studied at Philipps University in Marburg.

The graduate engineer Wolfgang Marschewski is an experienced industry specialist in mechanical and plant engineering. As a Senior Partner, Marschewski is responsible for the projects in this industry. Prior to entering into the service of Kerkhoff Consulting, Marschewski had been Managing Director at Hitachi Power Europe GmbH. Before that, he had been Senior Vice President at MAN Ferrostaal AG and had worked in executive functions for L. & C. Steinmüller GmbH and Uhde GmbH.

Jürgen Pahl, Senior Partner, is responsible for projects in the fields retail and wholesale. The expert for purchasing in trading enterprises was executive director of many years for the purchasing company of the Metro Group as well as member of the Executive Board of Directors of Metro Cash & Carry International. In this position he also worked as Boardmember of the Foreign Trade Association.

As a Senior Partner, Niklas Panchyrz controls projects with the primary focus on the automotive and vehicle construction sectors. Panchyrz has been working for Kerkhoff Consulting since 2004. The graduate industrial engineer studied at the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen and at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Iserlohn.