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.

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.