Johannes Brinkkötter is one of the leading Shared Services experts in Germany and member of the hkp/// group Management Board sind 2018.

Following his law studies and admission to the bar, he began his professional career at BASF SE, where he held various departmental and management positions, among other things, he was a political consultant and project manager for M&A and HR. Seven years as Managing Director at BASF Services Europe followed, where he set up and expanded the European Shared Service Center for Finance and HR of the chemical company in Berlin.

With his move to the E.ON Group in spring 2012, in his position as SVP HR Services and member of the HR Board of the energy supplier, he was responsible for several important areas of HR management as well as multiple internal major products. In November 2013 he was appointed a member of the Executive Board of E.ON Business Services GmbH, Hanover. In this role, he reported directly to the CHRO and CIO of E.ON SE.

Since 2015, Holger Jungk is part of hkp/// group, supporting organizations in defining their HR IT strategy and choosing the HR IT solution that fits them best. He also advises on governance and implementation issues.

Before starting at hkp/// group, he worked for over five years at one of the largest software companies in an interface function between HR and IT, ultimately holding global responsibility for specific HR solutions. After that, he has been active in consultancy.

HR IT topics aside, Holger is an expert in strategic workforce planning as an instrument for aligning HR activities and HR itself with the company's corporate strategy. In addition, he advises companies on how best to define their shared service center architecture so that it integrates seamlessly with the business partner and center of expertise.

Holger also works as a trainer on a course run by the German Association for People Management (DGFP) and is the author of various professional articles on HR IT, transformation and strategic workforce planning.

After successfully studying business administration in Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Dublin, Patrick Maloney (born 1979) began his career in 2005 as a consultant to the General Works Council / Group Works Council in the E.ON Group. This was followed by several positions in the HR department, including as an advisor to E.ON's Chief Human Resources Officer and as Head of HR Policies at the energy group's IT subsidiary, before he became Head of Communications at E.ON Business Services in 2013.

Patrick Maloney left E.ON at the end of 2015 and set up his own business as a management consultant focusing on HR and communication issues. Since the beginning of 2017, he has worked for the strategic communications consultancy Hering Schuppener, which now operates as FGS Global. As Managing Director, Patrick Maloney was most recently responsible for the consulting business in the area of transformation & change in Europe.