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Copenhagen, Dk

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

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Copenhagen Area, Denmark

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Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Having left the swedish Ericsson company in early 1987 I founded the TopNordic group in Denmark and Sweden.Together with great partners and employees - I envisioned and executed the establishing, developing and refining of this multinational European IT heavyweight distribution- and solutionprovider now known as ATEA (www.atea.dk) and publically listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. The basic company set-up however remains rather similar to the original.I led the company to a multiple hundred million dollar company before selling my shares after 10 years of hard work, continued growth and profit. During the same period the company acquired a place amongst the 50 largest Danish companies and subsidiaries were established in Sweden & Norway.The product line consisted of tens of thousands of active products including PC’s, perifirals, IT-consumables, SW, system applications, technical services, office products, paper etc. Products were sourced domestic and internationally acting as both 'agent' and high volume importer in addition to major domestic agreements.The customer base grew from zero to tens of thousands individual B2B customers (Large and Midsize companies, Local Government and Nationwide Government Contracts); mainly in Denmark, Sweden and Norway - but also in several other countries within the EU and to some extend in the Middle East. Additional B2C customers were served through a network of independent B2R resellers.The company consistently delivered positive results - even through rapid and heavy expansion.(Update: In Q2 2012, Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc. acquired 1% of the Atea Group - now aproaching annual turnover of 3,600,000,000 USD - through his personal trust.)

The B2R wing of the TopNordic group serving Scandinavian resellers and international distributers dealing with all HW, business paper and consumables from the company's overall product line.The customer base included everything from minor local resellers to renowned international corporations - and counted hundreds of independent companies.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

At early age I got headhunted to a position as sales manager within the Office System branch of Ericsson Information Systems A/S simultaneously responsible for both the B2B end-users and B2R whole-sellers on the same market. I thus became fully aware of the differences between selling to end-users and through whole-sellers from early on. It is absolutely not the same.My product responsability included the domestic sale of word processors (dedicated PC's) and office equipment, factory relations, additional product sourcing and marketing.All together it involved the HR and sales responsibility of initially managing 10 sales representatives (some almost twice my age) with a combined multi million sales budget.Over time I managed to produce both growth in sales, profit and department size, which led to a promotion to division manager with the responsibility of marketing all supplies, consumables and add-on products within the danish Ericsson group through Ericsson Direct.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Nationwide sale of Microprocessors/PC's, SW (DBMS+Word processing) & perifirals (printers & related office furniture) to customers within the B2B segment.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Part time (20-40 hours/week) employment. I sold and dealt with everything from Electronics, Hi-Fi, Cameras and Music over Interior Decoration and Clothing to Food.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Leadership & Sustainability (Organisationalbehaviour/Marketing-/Money-/Financial/Strategy Management, Ongoing

Bachelor B.Sc, Business/Managerial Economics (Business/Political/Social/Statistics/It/Commercial Law)

1St Full Year Completed And Approved, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

"Studentereksamen" (I.E.Highschool/College), Mathematics & Physics

Public (Elementary/Primary/Middle) School