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Slagelse, Zealand, Denmark

Responsible for the implementation of Destination Zealand's Storebælt 365 vision, including the development of new market-driven, sustainable concepts that strengthen West Zealand’s position as a year-round destination. In addition, responsibility for the implementation of the destination company's event strategy, which through the establishment of innovative partnerships aims to realize a number of place-bound signature events that manifest the destination's positions of strength, create international awareness and set the direction for a sustainable tourism that West Zealand can live off and live with.• FOOD ON FIRE: overall festival management with a focus on consolidating Denmark's Bonfire Food Festival through the establishment of new commercial partnerships and further development of venue design, content and sustainable concepts that pull the festival in a green direction. In 2024, Food on Fire was successfully executed with continued high partner participation and satisfaction, in addition to significantly increased audience inflow and strengthened national media attention.• DM I BÅLMAD: responsible for the all-round event management of the Danish Bonfire Food Championships; an annual cooking competition that identifies and celebrates Denmark's best chef in the discipline of food over an open fire. With a successful premiere in 2024, the event will be carried out as a profiled side event to Food on Fire going forward. • AQTIVE DAYS: Since 2024 part of the team and steering committee behind Korsør Aqtive Days taking place in Halsskov Ferry Harbour with the Great Belt Bridge as a stunning backdrop. Aqtive Days is carried out based on the organizers' ambition to create a multi-water sports event that develops from being a locally oriented event to becoming a festival with both national and international appeal.

Slagelse, Denmark

Responsible for the management of Food on Fire held in Parnas Park in Sorø with the ambition of creating a successful premiere edition of Denmark's Bonfire Food Festival and thereby the basis for an annual recurring and site-specific event with the potential to develop Destination Zealand's tourism.• EVENT MANAGEMENT: Through an intensive course of 3 months, responsible for concept, partnerships, permissions, space design, volunteers, programme and executing Denmark's new bonfire festival. The festival was conducted on the basis of strong commitment from 60+ commercial partners and with high guest satisfaction and great national media attention as a result. At the local level, Destination Zealand was awarded the Sorø Municipality Lighthouse Award for having contributed significantly to making Sorø visible outside the municipality's borders with Food on Fire.

Kolding, Denmark

Responsible for the development and realization of the Triangle Region's potential as a sport event host region through the attraction and activation of major sport events in collaboration with 7 local municipalities, sport federations, local sport environments and volunteers, venues and the local tourism industry.• WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS EVENT MANAGEMENT: Part of the team and steering committee behind the hosting of the 2022 IOF World Orienteering Championships, the 2022 UCI MTB Marathon World Championships and the 2023 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships.• MAJOR CYCLING EVENTS: Part of the team working with activation and legacy building in connection with cycling events incl. Tour de France Grand Départ Copenhague-Danemark 2022, UCI MTB Marathon World Championships 2022, UCI Women’s World Tour - Tour of Scandinavia 2023, Grejsdalsløbet and Haderslev MTB Challenge.• EVENT ATTRACTION: Responsible for continuous expansion of the Triangle Region's event pipeline and attraction of sports events, incl. Royal Run, Jr. NBA, ITF Davis Cup and establishment of a new annual recurring ITF World Tennis Tour event.• STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS: Initiator and responsible for establishing long-term partnerships - incl. establishment of Denmark's first coastal rowing center in collaboration with Danish Rowing and establishment of a new cooperation with Volleyball Denmark making Middelfart the official home base for Denmark's national volleyball teams.• SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS: Front runner for the development of innovative partnerships with Too Good To Go, New Loop and DIF Innovation Lab, which aim to use sport events' broad public appeal as a platform for testing and promoting green solutions.• TRIANGLE EVENTS: Management of the process leading to the development and implementation of a new international event strategy with a focus on strengthened cross-municipal cooperation, event attraction, international positioning, sustainability and the creation of event legacies.

Middelfart, Denmark

Co-responsible for the organization's efforts to attract selected international scientific congresses and conferences to Southern Denmark and in charge of the development of the organization's sustainability concept.Results:• CONGRESS ATTRACTION: Part of the sales team responsible for the collaboration with the University of Southern Denmark, including Department of Sport and Biomechanics and national organizations, focusing on the possibilities of attracting sports science events such as Active Living, the European Network of Sport Education and the EuroVelo Conference.• GTO CERTIFICATION: Management of the organizational development process that has led to Inspiring Denmark, as one of the world's first tourism organizations, achieving the environmental certification GREEN TOURISM ORGANIZATION, which will strengthen Southern Denmark's international competitiveness in connection with the attraction of events to the region.

Odense, Denmark

Overall responsible for leading the organization's innovation and sustainability department including staff management, strategy development, identification of key innovation projects, fundraising and business consultancy.Results:• GREEN SUMMIT: Co-responsible for planning and conducting the event with the participation of 300 public and private decision-makers and responsible for leading the subsequent work to develop and anchor an overall green vision and sustainability strategy for Fyn in close interaction with municipalities, business, organizations as well as education and research.• KEY INNOVATION PROJECTS: Taking tourism out of the box as responsible for design, fundraising and start-up of innovation projects focusing on sustainability and digitalization, such as PLACEMAKING FYN and DESTINATION GREEN – each setting a new agenda for tourism and integrating tourism with urban and coastal design, culture, settlement and local communities.• CONNECTING FYN: Initiating and setting a new direction in business event tourism as responsible for the development of a new strategy for attracting meetings and events, which is based on a collaboration across municipalities, business clusters, education and research and aims at international staging of Fyn’s business position of strength.• KINA TUR_RETUR: Rethinking Chinise Tourism into Andersen's Hometown as responsible for the development of a market strategy based on the vision that Odense establishes a strong connection with China, built on strong attractiveness as a travel destination as well as business, educational, and cultural relations, cooperation and exchange.• EUROPEAN CLUSTER EXCELLENCE BRONZE LABEL: Responsible for the governance development process leading Destination Fyn, as the first DMO in Denmark, to official cluster appointment based on the benchmarking approach developed and performed by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis of VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH.

Odense, Denmark

Overall responsible for establishing and leading Fyn's official destination management organization including staff management of 11 team members, strategy, business development and facilitation of the triple helix based cluster consisting of 200+ members from commercial tourism companies, municipalities and knowledge institutions.Results:• FYN365: Lead designer and responsible for strategy development. Involving companies and municipalities in the making of FYN365; a market strategy that puts Fyn’s core stories at stake internationally and setting a future course towards a stronger focus on digital content and generating 365-tourism.• BIKE ISLAND: Inventor and founder of Fyn's international ambition and flagship project, which trough concept development, events and international marketing campaigns aims to make Fyn the best cycling destination in Northern Europe.• N8 ALLIANCEN: Initiator for the national partnership working on the vision to make the 820km Baltic Sea Route the world’s best cycling route. Awarded 2019 CYCLING ROUTE OF THE YEAR at the Fiets en Wandelbeurs held in The Netherlands.• KINA ALLIANCEN: Founder and initiator of the Fyn-based China-network, a strategic collaboration between commercial companies and public organizations focusing on the positioning of Odense in the world's largest travel market and attracting Chinese tourism to ANDERSEN'S HOMETOWN. • MØDEØEN FYN: Inventor of the strategic alliance between 35 local conference venues that collaborate on branding Fyn as the obvious meeting point in Denmark and attracting events to the island 365 days a year.• RETHINK TOURISM!: Founder of the cluster's annual event, which bridges market trends and 250+ participants from Danish tourism who come to learn from international key note speakers who are front-runners in terms of inspiring the industry with new innovative marketing initiatives.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Member of the international marketing board of VisitDenmark – the official tourism organization of Denmark - and overall responsible for the development of new tourism markets for Denmark incl. leading the New Markets secretariat and team of 5 members, responsible for research and insights, strategic planning, marketing planning and hands-on execution of BtB and BtC campaigns in non-representation markets.Results:• NEW MARKET DEVELOPMENT: Leading the establishment of strategic efforts in emerging markets with business potential for Danish tourism (including BRIK-countries, Finland, Iceland, France, Belgium/Luxemburg, Spain, Poland, Ukraine and Australia) based on market analysis, fundraising, concept development and partnerships with local marketing agencies, international airlines, tour operators, travel agencies, Royal Danish embassies abroad as well as Danish premium export brands such as Carlsberg, Republic of Fritz Hansen, LEGO, Louis Poulsen and Bang & Olufsen. • OFFICIAL DANISH REPRESENTATION: In charge of planning and execution of tourism promotion programmes conducted on the occasion of royal Danish state visits to Russia, Australia and Brazil and participation on international travel trade shows and exhibitions such as MATKA (Helsinki), Nordic Overseas Workshop (Reykjavik), FITUR (Madrid), SALÓ DEL TURISME (Barcelona), Workshop Nórdico (Madrid & Barcelona), MITT (Moscow), Nordic Workshop (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara & Yekaterinburg), UITT (Kiev), ABAV EXPO (Rio de Janeiro) and BRAZTOA (São Paulo).

Copenhagen, Denmark

Responsible for project management of cross-national marketing projects within city tourism, cruise and MICE, including coordination of BtC airline-campaigns and BtB activities incl. famtrips and international trade fairs such as IMEX (Frankfurt), IBTM (Barcelona), Seatrade Global (Miami) and Seatrade Europe (Hamburg) in close collaboration with VisitDenmark's market offices and Wonderful CopenhagenResponsibility areas include:• Cross-national campaigns within the Business Events/MICE, City Breaks and Cruise business areas• Overall responsible for market activities in non-representation markets (Spain and Russia)• Branding Denmark coordination• Key account and sales management• Reporting to Head of Business Development / Director of Sales & Marketing

Billund, Denmark

Responsibility areas include:• Coordination of packaging production and LEGO product catalogue in 44 languages• Reporting to Manager Graphic Services

Nr. Nebel, Denmark

Responsibility areas include:• Network and project management within active Holiday / special interest themes• Concept development incl. North Sea Cycle Route (northsea-cycle.com)• Co-founder of North Sea Beach Marathon (beachmarathon.com)• Event management• Reporting to Head of Projects / General Manager• Network and project management

Graduate Diploma In Business Administration, Organisation And Management - Strategic Management (Single Course Programme)

Strategic Marketing (Single Course Programme)

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