Regine Siepmann studied Business at the University of Cologne, majoring in Human Resources Management and Logistics.

After her degree she worked for three years at an international HR management consultancy, mainly involved in projects assessing the appropriateness of compensation levels for members of management and supervisory boards and designing variable compensation systems for top management.

Michael H. Kramarsch is founder, Delegate of the Board and Managing Partner of the hkp /// group.
 
In his more than 20 years consulting business he has established himself as one of the most highly regarded experts in the field of value-oriented management, corporate governance, performance management and top-executive compensation - in industrial companies as well as banks. His consulting expertise to Boards (Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte), Executive Boards and HR managers spans Germany, Switzerland and Austria – as well as additional European countries and the U.S.
 
Prior to founding hkp/// group on January 1st 2011, Mr. Kramarsch worked 13 years for an international HR management consulting firm. There he held various management and executive positions, e.g. as Managing Partner for the German-speaking regions.
 
Jointly with Prof. Fred G. Becker, Michael H. Kramarsch published one of the first studies in German-speaking countries on value-oriented corporate management and incentives in 1997. His book on equity-based management compensation (“Aktienbasierte Management-Vergütung”, Schaeffer Poeschl), available as second edition, is still considered a standard reference of executive compensation in Germany. Together with Dirk Filbert he analyzed the regulatory framework conditions of an altered remuneration landscape in "Performance-based remuneration in the banking business", a chapter of the "Handbook Corporate Governance in Banks" (Ed. Hopt, K. and Wohlmannstetter, G., Vahlen / CHBeck, June 2011).
 
Michael H. Kramarsch was a named specialty expert for German regulatory bodies as Governmental Commission on Corporate Governance (Deutsche Regierungskommission Corporate Governance), managed by Chairman Prof. Dr. T. Baums (2001), and The Government Commission German Corporate Governance Code (Regierungskommission DCGK) managed by the Chairmen Klaus Peter Müller und Dr. Manfred Gentz (2012 to 2014). He is founding member and CEO of the German Association of Independent Compensation Consultants (VUVB) as well as member of the advisory board of HHL Center for Corporate Governance, Leipzig.
 
Mr. Kramarsch is regularly cited in articles, lectures and publishes on current developments in corporate governance, top executive compensation and performance management.

Dr. Pia Lünstroth holds a diploma in business mathematics and a PHD in personnel economics. Her thesis investigates the performance-based pay for professors at German universities. As a research associate at the University of Trier, she taught classes on personnel economics, including compensation and incentive systems.

Since her start at hkp/// group in 2011, she accompanies projects concerning compensation of Management Boards, Top Executives as well as Supervisory Boards. Next to appropriateness assessments and benchmarks, she works in projects concerning the valuation and design of variable compensation schemes (Short and Long Term Incentives) as well as pension benefits. The design of Performance Management and its consequences on compensation and Talent Management is part of her consulting work as well. During her career at hkp/// group, she has supported several companies in the context of an IPO and the resulting special challenges.

Dr. Pia Lünstroth is author of several publications on Performance and Talent Management.

Nina Grochowitzki studied Business Mathematics at the Darmstadt University of Technology, specializing in probability theory, game theory and optimization. After completing a thesis on multicriteria portfolio optimization, she started working for an international financial service company on the structuring of financial products, where she was responsible among other things for developing product-specific calculation models.

Since January 2011 she is working with hkp///. Her consulting focus is on the design and evaluation of compensation and pension systems of Board members and Top Executives.