Carsten Schlichting began his career 1977 in an governmental  office in Hamburg. In 1980, he continued at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Stuttgart, and from 1982-1986 he was responsible for projects in the area of performance management, job evaluation/grading and compensation at the consulting firm Consulectra.
 
In 1986 he moved to Robert Bosch GmbH, where he worked in HR operations at plant level and at the company's head office. At Bosch he was responsible for group-wide executive development and compensation for a total of ten years until his contract came to an end in 2012. He also worked for several years for Bosch in the United States, and from 2005 coordinated the company's HR activities in Europe.
 
Carsten Schlichting has extensive experience in HR tools and processes and how they work together in international networks and matrix organizations. He believes that good concepts and valid tools alone do not guarantee successful implementation: corresponding processes and training, plus efforts to ensure acceptance on the part of line managers and HR business partners, are also required.
 
He is particularly interested in how talent management, grading and compensation models can be interconnected.

Since her start at hkp/// group in spring 2014, Verena Vandervelt primarily accompanies projects on Top Executive compensation with a focus on compensation benchmarks, design of variable compensation systems and job grading. As an expert for compensation market practice, she has been leading international compensation surveys for Top Executives in DAX- and mid-sized companies as well as international studies on Executive und Non-Executive Director compensation in Europe for several years now. In addition, she advises companies from all industries in the fields of gender / fair pay analyses as well as benchmarks of management organizations.

Verena Vandervelt studied Business Administration at the University of Cologne as well as in Beijing and Paris. She completed an international double-degree program (CEMS), majoring in Human Resources Management and Finance.