Extensive experience and multiple award wins.

Karsten Berge and his team have been recognised on multiple occasions in the categories Digitalisation, IT, Consulting/Professional Services and Executive Search.

NELEX was founded by Karsten Berge. After more than fifteen years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry, Berge first established SearchConsult GmbH in 2006, building it into one of the largest executive search firms in the digitalisation and IT space. At its peak, he was responsible for almost 70 recruiting specialists and an annual turnover in the high single digit millions.

In 2017, Karsten Berge and SearchConsult were recognised by WirtschaftsWoche (issue 51/2017) as one of the best executive search firms with a 4 star rating, and was nominated by Experteer in the Executive Search category for the Headhunter of the Year Award 2017.

In 2019, Karsten Berge took the next step and founded NELEX to realise his vision of a consistently and comprehensively digital and intelligence driven recruiting process.

With NELEX AG, Berge and his team have since been recognised by WirtschaftsWoche for six consecutive years as best executive search firm in the categories IT, Digitalisation and Professional Services. In addition, brand eins ranks NELEX AG among the 16 best executive search firms in Germany nationwide, with the highest rating.