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Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Part of the founding team building a true digital freight forwarder with the goal of making international freight forwarding as simple as buying an airline ticket. The products range across sea, air, rail, road and courier with LCL sea freight being the main focus. The central part of the journey included building a team, landing two funding rounds and orchestrating a critical pivot. Responsible for logistics operations, customer service and supplier management. Mapped and optimised processes from pricing and payment to operations and delivery. Build a workflow IT-system tailored to the needs of the companys operation and updated the optimised processes in this system. The result is a fully digitised and highly automated platform that delivers a very high level of customer service with a minimum of human input. This could only be achieved by obtaining a true in-depth understanding of the operational processes and then tailoring an IT system to automate these processes.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sar

Consulting as process improvement expert in container shipping and related industries. Assisting companies in achieving visibility and control of their processes by combining practical shipping experience and process knowledge. Applies a diverse set of tools from the LEAN Six-Sigma methodology and insists on strong and wide stakeholder participation to create ownership and motivation for making the achieved improvements sustainable.In addition, general process improvement is taught to all levels of management to create an environment where the process improvement culture can flourish.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Consulted as an industry expert in a large research project exploring the possibility of using modern-day Revenue Management techniques in container shipping. The project applied a rigid academic framework for collection and analysis of data and resulted in publications in international journals.

Genoa, Liguria, Italy

I founded OnOn Shipping with the aim of introducing a low-cost model in the container shipping industry. This requires mastering a number of the typical entrepreneurial disciplines:- Moving from the idea and the vision to the business plan and the budget.- Bouncing the idea off with industry experts, customers, investors and potential employees.- Constantly iterating on the product and the plans for execution.- Presenting to investors and finding partners.- Finding and contracting with suppliers and collaboratively develop a prototype.- Creating the company website and market it through search engines optimization, social media and email marketing. Drive conversion into paying customers.

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

Headed cross-functional Six-Sigma team that developed and implemented a new global process for planning and improvement of the company's asset deployment. The need for a mindset change from conventional to Six-Sigma thinking required heavy communication and stakeholder engagement as well as development of supporting IT tools. The project had top management attention and involvement from start to end. The success of the project led to certification as Blackbelt within the MAERSK methodology (LEAN Six-Sigma).

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

Created visibility and drove organisational focus on productivity in 300 container terminals across the globe. This was achieved by obtaining a thorough understanding of the drivers of the business units and functions, by collecting and analysing the corresponding data and finallly transferring the new and combined knowledge onto a proper IT platform.

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

Analysed and made recommendations to top management on container terminal investment proposals in Africa, South Asia, Eastern Europe and Iberia. Each business case required building an overview of the market situation in the area, coordinating forecasts of cargo flows with commercials desks, predicting competitor moves and then making a recommendation to top management.

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

Responsible for day-to-day capacity management for the 80 vessels serving East and West Africa. The primary tasks was to lead and motivate the team of six, to coach the new comers and support the experienced. We achieved significant efficiencies that enabled the team to take on additional responsibilities that otherwise would have required two additional people.

Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia

Doubled business volume in 14 months as Branch Manager by building a strong and sustainable business mindset in an cross-cultural office with 12 professionals. This was achieved through a strong drive for process improvement in general and customer service in particular. The result was an environment where our staff was happy to work and our customers were pleased to conduct their business.

Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia

Having finished my traineeship in headquarters in Copenhagen I wanted a job with exposure to the basic parts of the business. I found this job in the small office in Semarang, Indonesia. I started in sales, but was very quickly involved in all parts of the business, i.e. sales, customer service, operations and finance as well as relationship building with government officials, suppliers and major customers.

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

During my time as management trainee I held three different positions:- Maersk Tankers as Demurrage Analyst- Maersk Line, Africa Affiliates Department- Maersk Line, Africa Capacity Management

Basic military training in the armoured infantry at the Danish Life Regiment.

Mba, Mba

Business Diploma, Organisation And Management

First part from 2000 to 2002. Second part from 2005 to 2007 upon return from Indonesia.

Two Month Intensive German Course

High School Diploma, Math, Physics, Philosophy, Social Science

Exchange Student

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football, Powerlifting, Track and Field

Public School