With more than 20 years’ industry experience and more than 10 years’ search experience, covering the Technology Sector in the widest sense, Werner currently splits his time managing the whole permanent recruitment business in Germany (spread over 5 offices) and the Executive Search business for CIO’s, Sales/Marketing and General Management positions cross industries, but with a strong focus on technology companies.

“The German recruitment market is actually the most competitive in the world, thousands of very small ‘headhunting’ companies are on the market”, says Werner. “But nobody among these has such a complete and broad portfolio as Harvey Nash:  skill contracting, temporary work, permanent recruitment, complete projects, software development, managed services, interim management and executive search and last but not least our own technology project competence through our Nash Technology subsidiaries in Stuttgart and Nuremberg. That’s why large companies in Germany like Deutsche Post WorldNet, BMW, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Adidas, etc. use our services since longer time.”

Since joining Harvey Nash in 2000, Werner has completed numerous searches for companies like IBM, Adidas, Nortel, British Telecom, AT&T, CSC, Nestlé and many more. Due to his long time work experience with US companies (he worked for 2 years in the US) he has also achieved significant experience in assisting international US businesses to identify talent in Germany (e.g. Danaher Group, Rover Group, ClearEdge, IBM).

Prior to Harvey Nash, Werner was a self-employed recruitment consultant for the IT and Telecom industry. Previously, Werner was leading a small Dutch System Integration company as MD Germany and was building up Texas Instruments’ commercial software business in Central Europe. In the 12 years with TI he had various positions ranging from Senior Consultant via Sales Director to Marketing Director worldwide. Based on his MSc in Computer Science he worked as software developer and project manager in the German Research Centre for Telecommunication as well as Management Consultant with the Scicon Group.