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Peter Kürstein
Chairman
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President, Radiometer Medical ApS
His marketing career started with Pfizer, Inc., New York, lead on to Shiley, Inc., California and from there to Radiometer A/S, Copenhagen, where he was hired to head the Monitoring Division in 1985.
Peter Kürstein has been in charge of Radiometer's medical business since 1987, except for the period 2001-2004, when he headed the Innovation offspring, which lead to the successful acquisition of Radiometer by Danaher Corp.
MBA from Harvard Business School, 1981.Member of the boards of Foss A/S, H. Lundbeck A/S and Danish-American Business Forum.
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Lars Marcher
Deputy Chairman
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President & CEO, Ambu A/S
Lars Marcher has previously had top positions with Terma A/S, ØK, Apple Computer, and Dataram Corporation. Lars has spent more than 10 years abroad of which four years was in the US in New Jersey.
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Michael Zahrin
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Director, Group Government Relations, Vestas Wind Systems A/S
Michael Zarin joined Vestas Wind Systems’ Group Government Relations unit in October 2007 as Director and International Policy Advisor. In January 2008, he was appointed as a deputy to the Senior Vice President for Government Relations.
His main areas of responsibility include internal and external communications, including Vestas’ involvement with global industry and business associations. He is also responsible for Vestas’ activities related to climate change as well as supporting commercial and government relations colleagues in the United States, Latin America, and the Mediterranean region.
Prior to re-locating in Denmark, Michael served on the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff, advising Secretary of State Colin Powell and other senior officials on Latin America policy matters. During the 1990’s, Michael worked at the International Republican Institute, a non-partisan NGO promoting democracy and civic education worldwide. Prior to that, Michael served on the staff of U.S. Senator David Durenberger, advising the Senator on foreign policy and national security matters.
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Lars Rasmussen
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President & CEO, Coloplast A/S
Lars Rasmussen has been with Coloplast since 1988 and became a Member of Coloplast's Corporate Management Group in 1996. Lars has global business responsibility for all product divisions, strategic business units, global sales, product development, research, commercial development and QA.
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Sam Jalaei
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Partner, Eversheds Law Firm
Sam Jalaei has, since 2000, worked with Danish and international mergers and acquisitions (M&A transactions), including planning and completing due diligence investigations, sales preparations and negotiating and drafting contracts. Sam has in recent years been involved in The Danish Ministry of Transport's sale of the Danish Vehicle Inspection Agency to Applus Danmark A/S (2005), the Proark Group's combined share and asset acquisition of holding companies and golf centres from the Pen-Sam Group (2006) and the combined share and asset acquisition of the Imerco chain stores and the transformation thereof to equity chain (2007). Furthermore, Sam advises on private equity, venture capital, corporate law and capital markets.
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Niels Steen Høyer
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Head of Department, Trade Council of Denmark
Joined the foreign service in 1979, and have in the 80's an 90's been posted to London, Bonn and New York. In New York from 1990 - 1994 as head of the trade department at the Consulate General. In the period 1994 – 2001 Head of Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs focusing on trade and export promotion activities. Member of The Export Promotion Council 1995 - 1998.
Consul General in Los Angeles 2001 -2002, followed by a posting as Consul General in Hamburg 2002 – 2007. Both places with focus on promotion of Danish commercial and cultural interest in the USA and Germany.
Member of the board NOPEF – The Nordic Project Fund. Vice - Chairman of the Appropriation Board.
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Robert Steen Kledal
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Group Senior Vice President, A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S
Robert Kledal joined A.P. Møller-Mærsk in 1989 and has been stationed in Hong Kong, China and USA in the period from 1991 to 2007, where he upon his return to Copenhagen has assumed responsibility for Maersk Lines Product Management, the strategic positioning and pricing in the different global markets. Robert Kledal's previous experience from North America includes managing Maersk's relationship with key customers and suppliers hereunder ports and railroads. Robert Kledal holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Stig Løkke Pedersen
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Executive Vice President, H. Lundbeck A/S
Stig Løkke Pedersen is , in charge of corporate business development, portfolio management and commercial operations in the world outside Europe. His responsibilities also include the commercial establishment of Lundbeck in the USA and Japan. He has been a member of the Lundbeck Board of Management since April 2003.
Mr Pedersen joined Lundbeck in 1992. During 1992-2003 he served, successively, as Director of Business Development, Director of Corporate Affairs, Managing Director of Lundbeck's affiliate in the Netherlands, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs & Commercial Operations Canada, Latin America and Asia, and Senior Vice President, Corporate Business Development & Portfolio Management. Mr Pedersen was appointed to his present position in December 2003.
He is Chairman of the Board of Nuevolution A/S and chairman or board member in several Lundbeck affiliates in and outside Europe.
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Suzanne B.D. Lassen
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CEO & Founder, Strategic Facilitator & Integrator ApS
Strategic Facilitator & Integrator creates value by matching the right ideas with the right people. From 2001-2009 Suzanne B.D. Lassen was Executive Director of Danish-American Business Forum. She Established cooperation between The World Economic Forum and the Danish-American Business Forum and headed several initiatives to collaborations among executives, politicians and businesses in Denmark and the US.
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Terrence E. Brown
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Ph.D, Founder of the Cogeneration and the Startup Academy
Terrence E. Brown is a business strategy columnist, educator, entrepreneur and international subject area expert on creating value. Dr. Brown holds an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania along with a second MBA in Organizational Management and a Doctorate in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy from Rutgers University. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department of CLUSTER, an international consortium of Europe's leading technical universities and is on the Steering Board of the Roundtable of Entrepreneurship Education's European Branch. Dr. Brown founded Growthstrategies which specializes in helping to grow companies by creating and developing uncommon opportunities. In 1997 he received the National Federation of Business Dissertation Award.
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Kjartan Langvad
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Director, E. Phil & Søn A/S
Kjartan Langvad is the Director of E. Pihl & Søn A/S. Since 2005, Kjartan Langvad has headed PIHL Inc. in Canton, MA and has worked with international Business Development in E. Pihl & Søn since 1987.
Kjartan is a Civil Engineer, M.Sc. and an Economist B.Sc.
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Shawn Waddoups(observer status)
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First Secretary for Economic and Commercial Affairs
Embassy of the United States in Copenhagen, Denmark
Shawn Waddoups arrived in Denmark on August 12, 2009. Immediately prior to that, he had been posted as the U.S. Department of State Representative to the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Jalalabad, Afghanistan – approximately 70 km from the Afghan-Pakistan border on the main highway between Kabul and Islamabad. Previous postings include Bucharest, Romania, and Manila, Philippines. Prior to joining the Foreign Service on September 10, 2001, Mr. Waddoups served for seven years in the U.S. Navy. He is originally from Roy, Utah, but now calls Arlington, Virginia, home. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Bachelors Degree in Political Science, both from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
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Thomas Bustrup
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Deputy Director General at the DI (Confederation of Danish Industry)
Thomas Bustrup is Deputy Director General at DI Since 1996,. He has been involved in identification of project opportunities and development of project ideas between Danish companies and companies from developing countries. Also, Mr. Bustrup has engaged in developing and implementing twinning projects with DI's sister organisations in Africa, Asia, and South America. He is experienced in analysing the differences in business culture in Denmark and developing countries and its effect on management and the business systems of the involved companies, and has made more than 60 visits to developing countries.
Thomas Bustrup is also the Chairman of Export Promotion Denmark and DIBD OMIB A/S. Member of the boards of DIBD A/S and DIBD OMIR A/S.
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Thomas Nagy
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Executive Vice President for Stakeholder Relations, Novozymes A/S
His responsibilities include Corporate Stakeholder Communications, Sustainability Development, Corporate People & Organization, Facilitation and Organizational Audits. Prior to this he spent three years as President of Novozymes' US headquarters in North Carolina. Nagy joined Novozymes, the world leader in bio-innovations and largest manufacturer of enzymes and microorganisms, in 1987 when it was the enzyme division of Danish-based insulin manufacturer Novo Nordisk. Thomas Nagy's previous positions i Novozymes include President of Novozymes North America and Vice President for Production and Global Procurement for Novozymes A/S in Bagsværd, Denmark. |
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