Born: 1955

Position: President and CEO GN Netcom, member of GN Store Nord’s executive management since 2009

Competencies:
Holds a M.Sc. in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and a B.Sc. in Marketing from Copenhagen Business School. From 1979 to 2000 Mogens Elsberg held several managerial positions in IBM in Denmark and Internationally. Late 2000 he joined Aston Business Solutions as VP, Nordic Region responsible for operation in the Nordic Region and from 2001 to 2004 as CEO. From 2005 to 2008 Mogens Elsberg worked for Microsoft Business Solution first as General Manager, Navision and since 2006 heading the Microsoft Dynamics ERP strategy globally.

In 2009 he worked as Investor and Interim CEO for Pensio – which is a full-line supplier of payment solutions.

Born: 1949

Position: President and CEO GN ReSound, member of GN Store Nord’s executive management since 2010

Competencies:
Medical Doctor from Medical Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway 1974. Lars Viksmoen worked as a surgeon in County and University Hospitals in Norway and Sweden until 1986. In 1986 he joined Merck, Sharp & Dohme (MSD) in Norway as Medical Director and 4 years later he was appointed Managing Director for MSD Norway. In 1992 he transferred to the US and joined the corporate part of Merck & Co. Inc., a global research based pharmaceutical company where he held several executive positions based in the US and a number of European countries. Before joining GN ReSound Lars Viksmoen was CEO of the listed Norwegian biotechnology company Biotec Pharmacon ASA.

Born: 1970

Position: CFO GN Store Nord and CFO GN ReSound, member of GN Store Nord’s executive management since 2009

Competencies:
M.Sc. (finance and accounting) from Copenhagen Business School 1997. Regional Treasury Manager APAC and Middle East at A.P. Moller-Maersk from 1997 to 1999. From 2000 to 2004 Anders Boyer worked as CFO in Aston Business Solutions. From 2004 to 2005 Anders Boyer was partner in the investment company MezzInvest. From 2005 to 2007 he served as Regional Director in ISS, one of the world's largest commercial providers of Facility Services. In 2007 Anders Boyer joined GN Netcom as CFO and in 2009 his responsibilities were extended to include the role as CFO GN Store Nord and at the same time he also joined GN Store Nord’s executive management. On April 1, 2011 he became CFO of GN ReSound and left his position as CFO in GN Netcom.

Born: 1947

Position:
Retired, President Merck & Co, Inc. US Intercontinental Division

Competencies:
Per Wold-Olsen, MBA, was Managing Director of MSD Norway from 1976-1986 and his area of responsibility was extended to include the entire MSD Scandinavia Region in 1986-1991. In 1991, Per Wold-Olsen was appointed Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing Human Health Division of Merck & Co., Inc. based in the USA. In 1994 he was appointed President of Human Health Europe in Merck & Co., Inc. In 1997, he also became responsible for Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as Worldwide Marketing Human Health Division. In 2005, his area of responsibility was extended to include Latin America and Canada as President of Human Health Intercontinental Region, Merck & Co., Inc. From 1994 to 2006, Per Wold-Olsen was a member of Merck’s Management Committee.

Special Competencies:
Per has an extensive global leadership expertise and experience from Merck & Co., Inc, a global research based Fortune 500 Company where he spent more than 30 years – of which the last 15 years was in the US as part of the company’s Executive Management team. In 2006, Per retired from Merck as President in the Intercontinental Region (Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, India, Latin America and Africa). As an experienced line executive and as a function of his global leadership experience and knowledge of the healthcare industry, Per brings a unique set of capabilities and values to the Board of GN Store Nord within marketing, product development as well as commercialization of innovation. Per also possesses in depth knowledge of the US market as well as emerging markets.

Fiduciary positions:
Member of the Boards: Exiqon A/S, Medicine for Malaria Venture, Gilead Sciences Inc.

Independency:
Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.

Born: 1949

Position:
Retired, previously director of McKinsey & Company in Scandinavia.

Competencies:
William E. Hoover, jr., MBA, worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., for approximately 30 years until July 2007.

Special Competencies:
Bill has 30 years of experience at McKinsey & Company, most of it in the Nordic region. He has served many of the largest industrial and hi-tech multinationals in this region in the areas of strategy, organization, M&A, and large scale transformation. He is also very experienced with supply chain/operations and has authored several articles and a book on these topics. In addition, he has quite a bit of hands on experience in helping Nordic multinationals rapidly scale up in emerging markets, especially China and India and he coined the notion of “China as the second home market”.

Fiduciary positions:
Member of the boards: Danfoss A/S, Sauer-Danfoss Inc., NorthStar Battery

Independency:
Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.

Born: 1955

Position:
Country General Manager, Microsoft Danmark

Competencies:
Jørgen Bardenfleth, MSEE (DTU, 1980), and MBA (UCLA, 1989), started his career with research and development in the communication technology sector in 1980. Moved to Silicon Valley/California in 1981. Joergen became a project leader in the electronic instrumentation sector in California in 2984. In 1989 he was appointed Sales Engineer within Sales and Marketing at HP in Denmark, later promoted to Sales Manager and Sales Director before becoming Country General Manager from 1995-2001. In 2001, Jørgen Bardenfleth was appointed General Manager for Intel’s Optical Components Division (OCD) worldwide, a part of Intel Communication Group. Since 2004, Jørgen Bardenfleth has been the Country General Manager in Microsoft Danmark.

Special Competencies:
Jørgen has been working in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector since 1981 holding various positions in R&D, Sales and Marketing and General Management. Jørgen worked six years in Silicon Valley in R&D and got his MBA from UCLA. Jørgen has worked for Hewlett-Packard 12 years in Direct Sales, Channel Sales and Marketing, and been responsible for the Danish subsidiary for 6 years. Jørgen worked for Intel heading the Optical Communication Division for 3 years, with full responsibility for R&D, and Sales and Marketing and P&L, including divisions in California, British Columbia and Germany. At Microsoft Jørgen is also responsible for the Unifi ed Communications business. He has extensive experience with channel business management in high technology, product launching, customer service, customer support, consulting in IT, R&D, remote R&D, and best practices in HR having had Microsoft been named the Best Place to Work in Denmark two years in a row.

Fiduciary positions:
Chairman of the Boards: Iptronics ApS, Symbion Forskerpark in Copenhagen, DHI
Member of the Board: COWI A/S.

Independency:
Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.

Born: 1956

Position:
Professional board member and self-employed Consultant to the Medtech Industry

Competencies:
Wolfgang Reim holds a Diploma and a PhD in Physics from ETH Zürich, Switzerland. After University, Wolfgang Reim was a scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and the IBM Almaden Research Center in the United States. From 1987 to 2000, Wolfgang Reim was employed with Siemens AG in Germany and the United States holding a number of leading positions within sales, marketing, development and business strategy. He was President & CEO of the Siemens Ultrasound Division based in Seattle from 1997 to 2000 and President of the Special Products Division of Siemens Healthcare in Erlangen from 1995 to 1997. In 2000 he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer at Dräger Medical AG & Co KGaA. – a joint venture between Drägerwerk and Siemens, which develops, manufactures, markets and sells advanced medtech equipment in critical care.

Special Position:
Professional board member and self-employed Consultant to the Medtech Industry

Special Competencies:
Wolfgang has held various leadership functions in the global healthcare industry for more than 20 years, including seven years as the CEO of Dräger Medical AG, a global leader in the critical care segment with direct presence in more than 50 countries and ten years with Siemens Healthcare, thereof five years as a member of the global executive team. Twice in his career, he has been based in the USA and he has also spent considerable time in Japan. Besides executive management roles, Wolfgang also was a member of the portfolio management team of BB Medtech AG, an investment company with sole focus on healthcare. In his many operative roles within the healthcare industry, Wolfgang gained special experience in the areas of business process reengineering, innovation management and global sourcing and supply chain management. He successfully managed three turn-around situations of global businesses (the last being Dräger Medical)and contributes extensive M&A experience.

Fiduciary positions:
Member of the Board: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Esaote SpA 

Independency:
Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.

Born: 1955

Position:
CEO of Teleca AB

Competencies:
René Svendsen-Tune graduated from Danmarks Ingeniørakademi (now the Technical University of Copenhagen), Denmark in 1981. He stayed on as a graduate student to do research for two additional years before leaving in 1983 to build a carrier within the Danish IT industry for nine years. In 1993 René joined Nokia and held various management positions in the Nokia Networks regional organization until 1998, when he became a global divisional head of sales at the Helsinki, Finland headquarters. In 2001, he was appointed global head of the entire customer organization across Nokia Networks. René joined Teleca as President and CEO in June 2006.

Special Competencies:
René is an experienced global leader with a more than 25 years of practical experience from IT and telecommunications industries. René worked for Nokia for more than 13 years between 1993 and 2006 in various management and executive roles. In 2000 René joined executive management in Nokia’s head-office where he became global head of marketing, sales and of country operations (services) in Nokia Networks. In 2006 René joined the software- & consultancy company Teleca as the CEO. During his carrier René has developed unique expertise and experience from the fast moving telecommunicationsand consumer electronics sectors. Along with executive global management experience from public and private companies René brings strong insight to global technology market, global sales and technology investments.

Fiduciary positions:
Board member of Excitor a/s

Independency:
Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.

Born: 1958

Position:
CFO DONG Energy

Competencies:
Carsten Krogsgaard Thomsen was educated at the University of Copenhagen where he obtained a Master's degree in economics in 1983. He started his career with managerial level positions at Andelsbanken, the Danish Ministry of Finance, and the Danish Ministry of Interior. Hereafter he became consultant followed by a position as finance director at the Copenhagen University Hospital. In 1995 Carsten Krogsgaard Thomsen joined the Danish State Railways as chief financial officer. In 2002 he joined DONG Energy as CFO.

Special Competencies:
Carsten has extensive expertise and experience as CFO of DONG Energy, the leading Danish energy and utility company, where he has been a member of the executive management for eight years. Prior to this, Carsten was CFO of Danish Railways, DSB, for eight years and he also has experience as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and the Danish bank Andelsbanken. As an experienced CFO, Carsten brings strong capabilities to the board and audit committee within fi nance, accounting, auditing, risk management and IT.

Fiduciary positions:
Deputy Chairman NNIT a/s. 

Independency:
Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.

Born: 1959

Position:
CTO; GN Netcom A/S

Competencies:
Leo Larsen holds a M. SC. EE specialised in Acoustics from the Danish Technical University . And an HD-U (Graduate Diploma in Business Administration) from Copenhagen Business School. After having worked at the Danish Technical University and at GN Danavox, Leo joined GN Netcom in 1987. First as a development engineer and later as technology manager. Since January 2003 he has worked as CTO in the Business Development and Technology.

Born: 1951

Position:
Vice President Intellectual Property & Industry Relations, GN ReSound as

Competencies:
Nikolai Bisgaard, M.Sc.EE joined GN ReSound in 1978 as R&D engineer. In 1984 he was appointed R&D manager with responsibility for both hearing aids as well as headsets that later on in 1987 were established separately as GN Netcom. In 1991 he was appointed Vice President. R&D at GN ReSound, a position he kept until mid 1998. For a year he served in GN ReSound as V.P. Product Marketing & Audiology and then was promoted to Sr. Vice President Business Development & Industry Relations. From the beginning of 2001 until mid 2002 he served as President of Viennatone G.m.b.H in Austria after which he served as Head of Audiological Data System at GN Otometrics in Copenhagen. From 2006 he has been working as V.P. IPR at GN.

Fiduciary positions:
Member of the Board of Hearing Instruments Manufactures Patent Partnership (K/S HIMPP)
Member of the board HörTech G.m.b.H, Oldenburg, Germany
Member of the management group for Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Software Association, (HIMSA A/S)
Danish representative in CEN TC380 "Services offered by hearing aid professionals"

Born: 1963

Position:
Vice President Component Manufacturing in Operations, GNReSound AS.

Competencies:
Andersen B. SC.ME, 1987 joined GNReSound A/S in 2001. First Morten was responsible for technical departments in both Plastic- and Hybrid productions. In 2006 Morten was appointed as Director for Component Manufacturing in Operations with the total responsibility of the Praestoe site. In 2008 Morten was promoted as Vice President still in Component Manufacturing in Operations. Before Morten joined GNReSound A/S he was employed as Technical Manager in the label printing industry and has also experiences from the internal transport industry. Morten has more than 20 years of experiences in management and technical production optimization.