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Jonathan was the business manager at Passarelli Consultores, a Brazilian boutique executive search firm from 2011-2013. Prior to that, he was chief administrative officer responsible for all administrative functions (finance, HR, IT, legal, etc.) across 3 factories at Universal Têxtil in Jundiai, Sao Paulo. Jonathan started his career within executive search at J. Robert Scott in Boston. He joined the firm in 2005 and was quickly promoted through the research and candidate development ranks. In 2008, he relocated to London to help build-out the firm's European operation. Jonathan's search experience spans multiple industries and geographies at the CxO and board level.

He holds a BSc in Finance and Human Resource Management from Boston College's Carroll School of Management and is fluent in English, Portuguese, Thai, and Spanish.

Olfertjan Niemeijer founded Independent Recruiters in 2003, still the largest part of the Independent Recruiters Group. After working for Adecco for a long time, where he says he learnt 90% of the recruitment profession, he made the move to the recruitment & selection sector. After three very successful periods at three different recruitment & selection agencies (Robert Half, Chalmers Brown and N&S), he became an entrepreneur. As a Managing Consultant he is responsible for strategy, business development and individually coaching consultants.

Jochen Markgraf has broad experience in HR, in both recruiting and HR functions. He joined Kaiser Stähler Rekrutierungsberatung in October 2006 and is a managing director. He specialises in Executive / Professional Search and HR Consulting. He has large recruiting expertise in national and cross-border projects in industries such as Chemicals, Machinery Industry, Automotive, Life Sciences, Electronics and Retail and supports both middle-sized companies and international groups.

Until September 2006, Jochen worked at IBM, where he developed and established a new department: “Resource Operations – IT Delivery” and headed as a resource manager.

Jochen holds a master´s degree in business administration from the University of Frankfurt. Before that, he trained as a bank clerk and followed a trainee programme at Deutsche Bank. Jochen speaks German and English.

Christian is responsible for the recruitment of specialists all over Switzerland. Prior to joining Coopers Group, Christian worked with a leading global HR service provider for more than seven years. Christian holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen.
As Area Head of the German-speaking part of Switzerland and Branch Director he successfully established and developed the ‘Information Technology’ business sector.

• Over 20 years’ experience in recruiting
• Core expertise in Information Technology and Technical recruiting
• Development and management of recruiting strategies
• Business development and client relations management
• Experience acquired with varied organizations of all sizes across many industries
• Fluent bilingualism (both written and spoken)
  
  Specialities: IT recruiting and sourcing, Compensation negotiation, Recruiting/staffing strategy development, Recruiting Process Outsourcing