Ralf Kreutzberg

Strengthening family businesses through optimal staffing and oversight of management positions. With this goal in mind, I founded HEADSAHEAD in 2007.

My heart beats for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurship. With sensitivity and passion, I advise owners, family offices, supervisory boards, and management teams when they need to find sustainable top-level candidates. I am intimately familiar with the unique challenges of significant personnel decisions, such as succession planning in family businesses or when dealing with conflicting shareholder interests.

Advising private equity firms is another focus of my work. For investors acquiring stakes in medium-sized companies, I find suitable executives who, in addition to private equity experience, possess a high degree of sensitivity in dealing with existing corporate cultures. Increasingly, I advise venture capital firms on supplementing their founding teams with management-level personnel.

Before HEADSAHEAD, I completed vocational training at Deutsche Bank and studied business administration in Bayreuth. I then entered the field of auditing at Deloitte and gained experience at DZ Bank, Deutsche Bank's SME consulting division, and as managing director at Lenze Antriebstechnik.

I serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Hülpert Group, which is owned by my family; I am a member of the Supervisory Board of Knauf Interfer SE; and I am an advisor to BeyondBuild, an investment company for digital business models in the real estate industry.