Advisory, board work and operational leadership
- Executive Advisor since 2009. Board and advisory board positions among others within Telecom, IT/software, consumer foods, packaging, trading and manufacturing
- Authorized IDDAS Associate and Verifier of The SME Tool for maturity scoring based on ISO 17029
- Almost 50 Danish and Nordic clients have profited from my practical advice and board work. As examples, I have facilitated development and execution of strategies and new business models, leadership- and organizational development, CEO sparring and private equity journeys with successful acquisitions and exits
- Taught Management and Leadership at MMT Executive MBA program 2011 at DTU Executive School of Business
- Up to and including 2008, management positions through 8 years with TDC A/S, latest Senior Executive Vice President, TDC Group Management Board Member and President & CEO TDC Nordic Mobile
- Launched Plug & Play ADSL broadband to Danish consumers, 3G mobile broadband to consumers and businesses, as well as mobile services to businesses in Norway and Sweden. Achieved financial turnarounds on landline telephony and mobile, and consolidated TDC's mobile market share organically and through M&A
- Before that, management positions through 15 years with SCA Hygiene Products AB, as Vice President, European Customer Management & Deputy Global Product Management, Vice President Sales West/South Europe, and CEO for the local Danish subsidiary
- Defended profits vis a vis Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark's European entires and the threat of price erosion due to European retailer's increased buying power. Executed several organizational transformations to strengthen both brand and trade equity, e.g. from a country based structure to a retailer structure with European Key Account Management
- Many years of board leadership insight into international companies, Danish and European industry organizations
