Josef Steinkellner, a partner since 2015 and co-partner of Hertzog & Partner Austria since 2017, has taken over the management of the company and the remaining shares from Albert Klamert as planned on 1 January 2020 as managing partner. At the same time, the office was moved from Vienna to St. Andrä-Wördern, Lower Austria.
Josef Steinkellner has many years of expertise and extensive contacts in the national and international forwarding and logistics industry and has been working as an independent consultant since 2010. His predecessor, Albert Klamert, has implemented the successful positioning of Hertzog & Partner as a premium provider in the field of personnel consulting and mergers & acquisitions in the Austrian logistics and supply chain market. He will be available to the company as Senior Consultant during a transition phase.
Hertzog & Partner in Austria, founded in 2008 as a joint venture of Hertzog & Partner Germany and Albert Klamert in Vienna, continues to develop positively. In addition to the key market of Austria, expertise in personnel consulting with a sector focus has been developed in the neighbouring countries of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary through successful direct search mandates. The mergers & acquisitions division also successfully participated in corporate transactions.
Elmar Hertzog und Partner Management Consultants GmbH (Hamburg) is one of the leading personnel and management consultancies for logistics, supply chain management and transport. Since 1978, premium solutions have been provided for a large number of well-known national and international companies in the service, trade and industry sectors as well as for public institutions. The business areas and core competencies include personnel consulting, management consulting and mergers & acquisitions.
Against this background, the German and Austrian companies of Hertzog & Partner act as respective members of the worldwide consulting network experts for experts – global logistics consultants (e4e). In this role, the two companies successfully fill international management positions for their clients.