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VON BONIN + PARTNER Personalberatung logo

VON BONIN + PARTNER Personalberatung

Founded in 1978, VON BONIN + PARTNER Personalberatung, operating as VON BONIN GmbH and based in Gelnhausen, was a boutique executive search and leadership advisory firm that supported organizations and senior leaders across Germany for nearly five decades. Its core competence combined retained executive search with management coaching, delivered through a highly consultative, partnership based approach designed to create enduring value for both hiring companies and candidates. Over the years the firm built long standing relationships with decision makers, maintained a discreet and methodical search process, and emphasized cultural fit, future potential, and sustainable appointments rather than short term placements. As an independent consulting boutique, VON BONIN orchestrated end to end leadership recruitment for critical roles, ran targeted direct search campaigns, assessed leadership capabilities, and provided coaching to executives to help them navigate change, strengthen performance, and integrate successfully after placement. The firm operated with a holistic view of talent needs and business strategy, priding itself on personal accountability, clear communication, and a pragmatic problem solving mindset even through turbulent market cycles. From 1978 to 2025 the team remained in continuous dialogue with clients and leaders, aligning interests between companies that needed stronger talent than their competitors and top performers seeking forward looking employers. After more than 45 years of work, VON BONIN has now concluded its activities for age related reasons and expresses sincere thanks to all business partners and candidates for their trust and loyalty. The company is no longer taking on new mandates, but its legacy stands in the many successful leadership appointments and coaching engagements delivered, reflecting the firms long standing commitment to quality, discretion, and sustainable results.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAll industriesSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals
HQGelnhausen, Germany
1978
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ConAct

ConAct is a Frankfurt based recruitment consultancy specialized in placing specialist and leadership talent across IT and Finance. From its office in the Westend district, the team delivers an end to end recruitment service that supports clients through the entire talent acquisition cycle, from role scoping and market mapping to targeted search, screening, selection, offer management, and onboarding support. True to its name, Consult, Act, Connect, ConAct combines a consultative mindset with decisive execution and a strong network to connect qualified professionals and ambitious employers in Germany and internationally. The firm focuses on both permanent hires and freelance engagements, reflecting the needs of modern, agile organizations that scale with a blend of permanent and contract expertise. Clients value ConAct for tailored solutions rather than one size fits all processes, with an emphasis on quality, speed, and long term fit. The leadership brings more than 13 years of experience in talent acquisition, including five years dedicated specifically to IT and Finance recruiting, and applies this expertise to deliver sustainable matches that endure beyond the initial placement. In technology, ConAct frequently addresses demand in software engineering, data and analytics, cloud and infrastructure, cybersecurity, and related disciplines. In finance, the team works across banking, insurance, investment management, and fintech, covering functions such as accounting, controlling, risk, compliance, treasury, and financial operations as well as leadership roles. ConActs values shape how it operates: appreciation in every interaction, a commitment to diversity and inclusive recruitment practices, and a sense of responsibility for candidates careers and clients business outcomes. The company provides transparent communication, thorough feedback, and a high touch candidate experience while giving employers clear insights, market intelligence, and a curated shortlist of high quality profiles. By aligning expectations on both sides and staying engaged after placement, ConAct builds lasting relationships and contributes to success stories that stand the test of time.
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Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceBankingInsuranceInvestment Management
HQFrankfurt am Main, Germany
Lichtfels Personalvermittlung GmbH logo

Lichtfels Personalvermittlung GmbH

Lichtfels Personalvermittlung GmbH is a specialist recruitment consultancy headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, focused exclusively on Finance and Accounting talent across Germany. With more than a decade of experience, the firm connects exceptional professionals and executives with leading organizations, from venture backed scale ups and Mittelstand companies to large corporates and financial institutions. Clients rely on Lichtfels for three complementary services: Executive Search for CFOs, finance directors and senior leaders; Direct Hire for permanent positions across all levels of finance and accounting; and Interim and project solutions that provide flexible expertise for peaks, transformations and special situations, including interim management and specialized project support. The company combines rigorous needs analysis, research driven market mapping, access to passive candidates, structured assessments and discreet process management to deliver precise, lasting matches. Its practice spans core Finance and Accounting domains such as financial and management accounting, controlling, FP&A, reporting, consolidation, tax, treasury and internal audit, as well as finance operations and shared services leadership. Lichtfels emphasizes trust, discretion and long term partnerships with both clients and candidates, underpinned by transparent communication and a quality over quantity philosophy. The firm reports a 90 percent success rate in Finance and Accounting placements and 95 percent client satisfaction, reflecting a consistent focus on outcomes that endure beyond the start date. Operating nationwide from Frankfurt, Lichtfels supports employers of all sizes and industries that require high caliber finance talent and guides candidates seeking meaningful next steps in their careers. Led by managing directors Daniel Breiderhoff and Uros Mijatovic, the team brings deep functional expertise, an extensive network and a tailored, human centered approach that aligns technical capability with culture and long term business objectives, ensuring every placement advances both organizational performance and individual growth.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementFinTechFinance & AccountingSenior Executives
HQFrankfurt am Main, Germany
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Lorenz Consulting

Lorenz Consulting is a German executive search and management advisory boutique that helps organizations navigate uncertainty by building stronger leadership and sharper strategies. For more than three decades, the firm has supported clients across industrial, trade, and services sectors as well as national and international organizations and family offices. Its core recruitment offering centers on executive and professional search, delivering end to end support from defining the position requirements through targeted research, direct approach, structured evaluation, motivation, selection, and smooth integration of leaders into existing structures. Typical mandates include board chairs, managing directors, country and business unit heads, senior functional specialists, and supervisory or advisory board members. Complementing search, Lorenz Consulting conducts rigorous leadership assessment to evaluate management teams and individual executives using competency based analysis of track record, skills, personality traits, and behavioral patterns, providing clear role profiles and decision ready insights. The firm also offers top leadership coaching, taking a holistic view of each executive that spans expertise, experience, motivation, and human factors, and then co creating practical development plans with measurable progress through regular, high trust dialogue. On the advisory side, Lorenz Consulting guides strategy and restructuring initiatives, helping clients expand distribution, form joint ventures, build alliances, and transform processes and operating models to achieve sustainable performance improvements. Its M&A services cover targeted buy side and sell side searches, partner identification for joint ventures, market entry moves, and divestments, including informed recommendations to support price discovery and value realization. For family offices and family owned businesses, the firm advises on governance, family charters, supervisory boards, succession planning, and generational transitions that align ownership values with enterprise goals. Lorenz Consulting is recognized for efficient resourcing, deep market knowledge, discretion, and a commitment to outcomes that are objectively measurable, aligning every engagement to tangible business impact.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseE-commerceLuxury GoodsManagement Consulting
HQSchlangenbad, Germany
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PBMS PersonalBeratung Matthias Schneider

PBMS PersonalBeratung Matthias Schneider is a boutique headhunting and recruitment firm based in Eschborn near Frankfurt, founded in 2008 and led by its founder, who has worked in professional recruiting since 2000. The company focuses on targeted search and placement of specialists and leaders, with particular strength supporting management consultancies, software houses, banks and insurers, and clients across the German Mittelstand. PBMS concentrates functionally on IT, commercially oriented and business administration roles, and sales positions, including complex domains such as payments, e commerce and wholesale banking as reflected in current vacancies, while remaining open to adjacent specialisms when the brief and market logic support it. The firm emphasizes speed, discretion and accountability, thinking in the clients business model rather than merely ticking off a job description, and it deliberately avoids a one size fits all approach or fishing in every pond. Each mandate follows a clear, quality controlled process: a scoping conversation on the market, role and environment; a detailed briefing with a jointly agreed target company list; active, systematic research and direct approach; structured interviews and preselection by PBMS; presentation of the first suitable candidate swiftly with rapid client feedback to calibrate the search; continued parallel outreach and candidate presentation until offer acceptance and start. Engagements are managed personally by the founder to ensure continuity, senior attention and long term relationship building, including with stakeholders up to board level. Within recruitment projects, candidates receive extensive advisory support at no extra cost to clients or applicants, and PBMS also offers standalone services such as applicant coaching, employment reference review and drafting, and the development of compensation systems. The firm operates transparently with milestone based progress and a staged fee model aligned to project phases, aiming for durable, high value matches that reduce vacancy time, protect business continuity and deliver measurable impact for both clients and candidates.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceFinTechManagement ConsultingLegal
HQEschborn, Germany
2008
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SHIKAR GROUP

SHIKAR GROUP is a European consulting firm founded in 2004 that focuses on the people side of strategy through a distinctive combination of executive search and leadership consulting. The firm partners with multinational corporations, public organizations, and entrepreneurial businesses across Europe to align business strategy, leadership, organization, and culture for sustainable performance. In executive search, SHIKAR GROUP applies quality driven processes and rigorous selection grounded in its Executive Talent Index (ETI), a structured competency and behavior framework that supports systematic selection, succession planning, and leadership development. The team brings deep industry backgrounds and experience gained at major international search firms, ensuring that every assignment considers both role requirements and organizational culture. Cultural fit is assessed with a dedicated organizational culture analysis, and placements are supported with integration coaching to help new leaders meet agreed objectives and assimilate quickly into new environments. Complementing search, SHIKAR GROUPs leadership consulting practice addresses critical organizational levers including management assessment and audit, business coaching for senior leaders, roles and responsibilities design to drive collaboration and performance, structured change management facilitation from visioning through execution, and culture analysis and alignment to embed values that enable strategy. The firm serves clients across advanced technologies, financial services and insurance, industrial and manufacturing, consumer goods and retail, life sciences and healthcare, business and professional services, and private equity. Functional expertise spans CEOs, CFOs, compliance leaders, engineering, human resources, research and development, and sales and marketing. Acting as a trusted advisor throughout each engagement, SHIKAR GROUP consistently aims to exceed expectations by delivering meaningful shortlists, culturally aligned appointments, and measurable leadership impact that strengthens both top line growth and bottom line results over the long term.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAutomotiveAerospaceDefense
HQBad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
2004
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OnTarget-Search GmbH

OnTarget-Search GmbH is a German executive search and recruitment boutique serving clients from its base in the Offenbach/Frankfurt region with administration in Schoeneck. For more than 18 years the firm has focused on finding leaders and high impact specialists who are typically not active on the open job market. Its approach starts from scratch with every mandate: a thorough briefing and needs analysis define the exact search profile, target companies, and selection criteria. From there, consultants conduct rigorous market mapping, research hierarchies inside target organizations, and approach carefully identified individuals directly to gauge change readiness, build trust, and spark interest. Suitable candidates are assessed in in-depth interviews that examine both professional credentials and personal fit, before a documented shortlist and transparent reporting are delivered. Clients can choose a light identification service or full process support up to contract signature. OnTarget-Search emphasizes confidentiality, precision, and reliability, and does not rely on static CV databases, preferring targeted direct sourcing through personal networks. The firm operates across industries and functional domains, with core strengths in Management, Procurement, Logistics and Transport, IT and Technology, Human Resources, and Finance. Over the past five years it reports a fill rate above 85 percent and has completed more than 900 projects, ranging from executive and departmental leadership roles to critical expert hires. Representative appointments include heads of production and engineering, project directors, CFO and senior finance leaders, private banking and corporate banking managers, SAP and IT leadership, HR generalists and business partners, as well as technical specialists such as piping and design engineers. Whether supporting Mittelstand champions or international groups, OnTarget-Search aligns selection with culture, team dynamics, and social competencies so that new hires not only meet role requirements but also strengthen long term business performance.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseFinTechSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurity
HQOffenbach am Main, Germany
2006
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Conra Consulting GmbH

Conra Consulting GmbH is a Frankfurt based recruitment and executive search boutique founded by Florian and Lamya Kussius, who together bring more than 20 years of experience in talent acquisition and client advisory. The firm specializes in the direct placement of qualified professionals and executives, combining traditional values such as trust, discretion, quality, and reliability with modern, technology enabled sourcing. Conra partners with clients and candidates through every stage of the hiring journey, from a focused needs analysis and role scoping, to targeted market mapping, direct approach of active and passive talent, structured interviews, feedback loops, offer negotiation, and post placement follow up. Working on a success based model, the team is committed to delivering tangible outcomes while keeping processes transparent and efficient. For employers, Conra manages the full search lifecycle, presenting pre interviewed and motivated candidates and coordinating all interviews to reduce time to hire. For candidates, the firm offers personal guidance, access to off market opportunities, interview preparation, and support through contract signing and onboarding. Leveraging online platforms, databases, algorithms, and AI, Conra accelerates shortlists without compromising on cultural fit or long term potential. The company operates as a generalist across industries and functions, with particular strength in white collar and leadership appointments, and adapts its approach to the unique requirements of each mandate, whether it is a single critical hire or a series of hires aligned to growth plans. Based in Frankfurt am Main, Conra serves clients nationwide, building lasting relationships grounded in transparent communication and dependable delivery. The result is a trusted partner experience for organizations seeking competitive advantage through talent and for candidates seeking a meaningful next step in their careers.
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Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAll industriesGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives
HQFrankfurt am Main, Germany
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Grays Peak GmbH

Grays Peak GmbH is a DACH wide search and advisory firm headquartered in Frankfurt am Main that focuses on high impact hiring and career development across legal and finance. The firm partners with national and international law firms, boutiques, and spin offs, as well as private equity funds, banks, financial services institutions, and medium sized to listed companies in diverse sectors. Its core offering spans direct hires for experienced lawyers, tax advisors, auditors, and finance professionals, executive search up to the CFO level, and the delivery of specialized interim experts and external interim solutions in payroll, accounting, and tax. Complementing delivery, Grays Peak provides advisory services to professionalize and transform recruitment processes and to guide candidates with strategic career planning throughout each stage of their development. Led by Managing Partners Joanna Pracka, who heads the Legal practice, and Stefan Stieger, who leads Finance, the firm draws on deep domain expertise, long standing networks of decision makers and senior experts, and a commitment to discretion and closing capability to achieve outcomes. Its methodology is anchored in integrity, performance, sustainability, and authenticity: investing in long term relationships, aligning actions with a clear value system, and balancing decisiveness with confidentiality and mutual accountability. Grays Peak conducts targeted market mapping, rigorous candidate assessment, and hands on project management to enable the build out of teams, practice groups, and new offices, and to deliver seasoned leadership in accounting, controlling, tax, and treasury. Assignments are executed with transparent communication, milestone based reporting, and clear search strategies tailored to each mandate. For interim engagements, the firm mobilizes vetted specialists who stabilize operations, manage transitions, or deliver transformation projects on short notice, ensuring continuity and regulatory compliance in finance functions. For permanent mandates, it aligns technical depth, cultural fit, and long term potential to secure high retention and succession ready leadership across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementHuman ResourcesTechnical WritingProject Management
HQFrankfurt am Main, Germany
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Dierkes Associates GmbH

Dierkes Associates GmbH is an owner managed executive search specialist founded in spring 2008 that delivers custom tailored leadership recruiting solutions for international corporations and demanding local companies. From late 2008 onward the firm has provided full end to end executive search, covering advisory on recruiting topics, role scoping, market mapping, candidate identification and direct approach, rigorous preselection and presentation, negotiation support, and final reference checks. The team and its external partners bring extensive networks built over a combined 40 years in executive search, giving clients access to a high quality talent pool. Dierkes Associates focuses on technology driven industries and professional services across Germany and Western Europe, and is thoroughly experienced in working with large, complex, internationally operating organizations. Every consultant has lived abroad and works fluently in German and English, ensuring culturally aware engagement with global stakeholders and candidates. In tightly defined markets the firm commits to only one market participant at a time so clients gain the full view of the relevant candidate universe without off limits restrictions typical of large integrated competitors. With four permanent staff supported by a vetted network of freelance researchers, the firm maintains the critical mass to deliver larger multi role projects while preserving the speed, flexibility, and low overhead of a boutique. Typical mandates include general management, sales leadership, marketing and product management, development and engineering roles, and professional services and consulting positions that are critical to business performance. For cross border searches Dierkes Associates runs projects directly from Germany or partners with proven independent boutiques in Switzerland for Switzerland and France, in the Netherlands for Benelux, and in the United States for North America. Its disciplined yet agile process emphasizes speed, transparency, and cultural fit to secure lasting executive hires.
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Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Human Resources
HQFrankfurt, Hesse, Germany, Germany
2008

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