Christian Svane Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, Dk

Copenhagen, Dk

Copenhagen K, Dk

Partner/Owner at Prokura which is one of the largest Scandinavian procurement, logistics and supply chain consultancies. Has deep experience in capability building incl. procurement toolbox, processes and organization development. Broad experience in category management in terms of category strategy & planning, sourcing, P2P optimization and supplier development.

Copenhagen Ø, Capital Region, Dk

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Management consultant with focus on Operations with spike in strategic procurementBroad focus on operational turn-around and strategy. Deep expert into procurement. Member of BCG’s Operations practice. Core member of BCG’s Procurement Expert NetworkExperience from broad range of industries and functional practice areas. Primarily focused on Procurement and Supply Chain optimization, but has also lead large scale innovation transformation, corporate strategy etc.Aside from projects, I actively lead and supported knowledge building in the Procurement Practice, e.g., developed BCG’s approach to Procurement capability building, Procurement during the down-turn

Us

Examples of projects:Operations: led a procurement transformation setting up a global organization and successfully reducing spend 15% in a core spend category. Developed risk management strategy for a top-50 European company, where I identified total risk exposure and evaluated potential implications for different insurance options and risk management strategiesStrategy: Restructured a pharmaco’s activities in Europe in cooperation with the European management team and included a fundamental rethinking of its commercial/country based organizational set up as well as R&D operations redesignR&D: Developed a portfolio strategy and investment stage-gate process in early discoveryM&A: Prepared a spin-off of a 800 FTE BU working together with top-management to prepare both BU and mother company for transition incl. handling of critical IPR. Performed outside-in due diligence on target for a leading private equity player

Founder. Consultancy company targeting technology companiesMy exposure and experience through BriSense provided me with the option to coach and assist start-up companies with need of business developmentExamples of projects: Reengineered business plan to secure capital for a medico company operating in diabetes diagnostics market resulting in investment of ~$10 mln. Prepared launch of a disruptive product in the surgical device area with development of business plan and identification of cooperation partners in US and EU. Re-engineered investor material for a company in market of separation of high value bio-molecules

Founder. High-tech university spin-off companyMy years with the start-up was an exciting chance to pioneer market for online measurements in liquids based on state-of-the-art sensor technology, but we could not raise capital to survive the investor downturn of 2002/03.Negotiated and managed initial knowledge transfer from science teams in Russia and Denmark. Following, I secured funding of ~$1 mln (DKK 6.2 mln) in seed investments and was able to established BriSense as a top-rated European business venture through successful participation in venture competitions, exclusive VC conferences and cover stories in leading newspapers and magazinesPerformed sales/marketing: developed sales and marketing strategy, supervised sales in Germany and conducted sales in Denmark and Sweden where I closed deals with lead customers

Roskilde, Sjælland, Dk

Assistant for Professor Erik Thulstrup at Chemistry Department. Mr. Thulstrup is a world-leading expert in polarization spectroscopy and one of the core scientists behind practical use of this measurement technology

M.Sc., Chemistry And Business Economics

Hd Part 1, Technical Business Administration

Chemistry