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Stege, Dk

Farum, Hovedstaden, Dk

Change of Scandinavia design, manufacture and sell lingerie, swimwear, nightwear and hosiery, distributed online and through 280 Change lingerie concept stores in Europe & Canada. The group owns the entire value chain.Management of the Group's finance function, which is placed in Poland. Responsible for business planning, budgeting, KPI and management reporting, business and financial controlling, business case evaluations, group accounting and consolidation, audit and external financial reports, financial management of subsidiaries, cash management, contract management. Acting secretary for the Board.Securing profitable growth through improved performance in existing stores, establishment in new markets, acquisition of Twilfit (Swedens largest underwear chain) and accelerated omnichannel activities. Improved capital structure and financing terms.

Albertslund, 2620, Dk

Coop is Denmark’s largest grocery chain with around 1.100 stores. Coop.dk operates the Group's online food and non-food activities.Responsible for developing and implementing new analysis tools and management reports, including fulfillment and marketing spend allocation providing full profitability insight on SKU level. Detailed campaign evaluations lead to improved gross margin combined with 25% lift in turnover. 20% reduction of inventory by identification and phasing out of slow movers.

Ballerup, Capital Region, Dk

Nationwide retail chain and Denmark’s leader of pet supplies. A part of the German Fressnapf Group, which is the European industry leader with over 1.500 stores and own private label production.As part of the executive management team I contributed significantly to the company’s growth from 2009 to 2013, a period where the turnover in Denmark increased by more than 70%. During this period the market positioning and customer services were redefined, all chain agreements were reviewed, use of ERP system and procedures were improved and the focus on staff development and staff planning was enhanced. All these activities led to a successful turnaround and a significant improvement of the bottom-line result.Member of the Fressnapf Group’s international ERP development team (SAP implementation project).Responsible for the finance function, IT & ERP system (Microsoft Dynamics), HR, administration, online shop, purchase and marketing (15 months), annual reports, IFRS conversion, reporting, budgeting & controlling, chain agreements, expansion analyses, transaction and margin analyses and 5 year business plans

Type2dialog delivers strategic advice and implementation of health care change processes to the social and eldercare sector. Member of the board of directors. Developed the business plans for a new business area established in a sister company - Sensement ApS. Obtained funding by a mix of venture capital, responsible loans and a bank credit facility. Sensement offers an Employee Relationship Management (ERM) solution (SaaS) that helps enterprises structuring their efforts to improve job satisfaction and health condition of employees and to reduce sick leaves and employee turnover.

Kastrup, Dk, Dk

Subsidiary to Copenhagen Airports (CPH) managing CPH’s international investments and consultancy services in Mexico, UK, China and other countries. CPH invested more than 2 billion DKK in foreign airports. The Australian investment fund Macquarie Airports acquired in 2005 Copenhagen Airports and its international activities.A part of CPH’s international management team and board member in foreign subsidiaries . Responsible for the financial issues related to CPH’s international investments during the acquisition phase, the turnaround phase and later during the divestment phase. The divestment phase was initiated in 2007 when Macquarie reassessed its strategy for CPH. Key player in +10 M&A projects managing the financial business plan, due dligence, valuation and preparation of investment recommendations to the executive management and board of directors. Responsible for divestment of assets worth more than 500 million DKK and a successful 295 million GBP refinancing project. Contributed to successful turnarounds in portfolio companies by delivering extensive consultancy services covering commercial development, tariff strategies, investment appraisals and financial analyses.

Copenhagen Airports’ consortium company in Mexico having a strategic shareholding in and a technical service agreement with Grupo Aeropuertos del Sureste (ASUR), a group of 9 Mexican airports. ASUR was listed at New York and Mexico City stock exchanges in 2000.Advised the CEO, CFO & CCO in ASUR on various financial and business development opportunities. Project manager on the development of a new strategic business plan and team member of ASUR's IPO team preparing financial forecasts, road-show presentations and prospectus material. Key player in the development of the commercial activities, which resulted in significant revenue growth. Obtained also favorable financial results for ASUR as initiator and leader of the tariff negotiations with the Mexican Ministry of Transport. Designed and implemented new financial management information and analysis systems. Member of ASUR's Operations Committee.

Kastrup, Dk, Dk

Northern Europe’s most important traffic hub.Responsible for developing and coordinating the Group Finance’s reporting, analysis and decision tools, including valuation of international acquisition targets. Managing contacts with international consortium partners. Designed and implemented a new invoicing system for all aeronautical activities with integration to SAP which resulted in a significant reduction in the manual work load. Chairman of CPH’s forecast group and developed an Early Warning System which with great accuracy could predict movements in CPH's most important value drivers on a 12 month horison.

Kastrup, Dk, Dk

Prepared the monthly management report to the Executive Management and Board of Directors. Project manager for the development of an Executive Management Information System integrating financial data and operational KPI’s. Developed a full-cost allocation model and determined internal and external hourly rates for sales of services. Project manager for the development of a new traffic analysis database and education of colleagues in the application software.

Valby, Copenhagen, Dk

Developed a market surveillance system delivering market reports measuring own and competitors market shares in both value and quantity (number of patient treatments). Market penetration curves for new products and generic competitors could carefully be assessed

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M.Sc. In Operational Research

Cand. Polit, M.Sc. In Economics

Studentereksamen, Mathematics, Physics

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