The background of Jutta Lohkampff covers a broad university career across several faculties, including business administration, publishing and philosophy. Her professional career, before moving into the executive search industry among others covers line functions and the P&L responsibility in Germany for the largest European recruitment company.

In the mid 1980's she joined the executive search industry as a consultant and developed on a fast track within Heidrick & Struggles to the first woman in Germany being offered partnership.

In 1991 she joined Signium Germany (at that time Ward Howell) as the first female Managing Partner.

During her almost 20 years in executive search Jutta has focused her activities mainly on top level assignments within 3 distinctive industries:

Law Firms: Jutta has helped both large international law firms to establish and grow their practices across Europe and Germany as well as German law firms to expand both locally as well as internationally. Her key assignments predominantly cover searches for partners, practice heads and managing partners/ country heads. Clients are American, British and German Law Firms.

Technical goods companies: Jutta has been working for a broad variety of clients within this relatively big sector. She has been involved in top level searches for aggressive, fast growing US serial goods manufacturers as well as for German DAX companies and privately owned typical German mittelstands-companies in investment goods, automotive and telecommunication. Her clients cover a range from Fortune 500/ DAX30 companies to privately owned mid-sized firms.

Media/Publishing/Entertainment: Jutta has been involved in outstanding recruitments within this industry including members of supervisory boards, European Presidents, CEOs etc. Clients are big international media conglomerates, big and medium-sized publishing groups from all sectors, international music groups, out-of-home-media companies and relevant industry associations.

A common element of her clients/searches bringing together these diverse industries is the level and nature of the assignment. In most of her searches she has been asked to place a top level position and find the specific cultural fit which needs a very focused recruiting strategy covering more than one market/territory. Big corporations and privately owned/ run companies value Jutta�s special ability to understand their specific culture and find the best professional and cultural fit.