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GN's Executive Management
Mogens Elsberg
CEO, GN Netcom
Born: February 4, 1955
Nationality: Danish
Family: Married, two children
Education: M.Sc. (Engineering) from the Technical University of Denmark and B.Sc. (Marketing) from the Copenhagen Business School.
Career:
2009- Investor and interim CEO, Pensio
2007-2008 General Manager, Microsoft Dynamics - all products
2005-2007 General Manager, Navision and since 2006 also for Axapta
2001-2004 CEO Aston Business Solutions
2000-2001 VP, Nordic Region Aston Business Solutions
1979-2000 Held several managerial positions with IBM Global Services in Denmark and internationally
Mogens Elberg's current directorships include Inventure Capital and LD Equity.
Mike R. van der Wallen
CEO, GN ReSound
Born: April 21, 1965, in Den Haag, the Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch.
Family: Married to Murielle; two children, a boy, Thom of 10 and a girl, Eline of 9.
Education: Degree in Business Administration, European University, Antwerp, Belgium (1987), Advanced Leadership Program, IMD and Executive Management Program, IMD.
Career:
2005- : Founder and Managing Director of Inspiring Management (IM) in Munich, Germany.
2001-2005: Corporate Vice President, Head of EMEA, Sony Ericsson, Munich, Germany.
2000-2001: President, Sony Digital Telecommunication Co., Munich, Germany (the global GSM business).
1998-1999: Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Sony Digital Telecommunication Co., San Diego, USA (the global CDMA business).
1996-1998: Director, Sony Personal Video, Europe.
1994-1995: General Manager, Marketing, Sony's Consumer Video Division, Europe.
1988-1994: Various positions in sales and marketing with Sony in the Netherlands.
1987-1988: International Commodity Trader, Continental Grain Company, the Netherlands.
Non-Executive Assignments: Mike van der Wallen is a member of the Advisory Board for the software companies SEVEN Networks, Inc. in Redwood City, USA and Miyowa S.A., Paris, France, as well as a member of the Supervisory Board of GN Store Nord.
Anders Boyer
CFO, GN Store Nord CFO, GN Netcom
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Nationality: Danish
Family:
Education:
Career:
2007- : CFO in GN Netcom
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Supervisory Board
Per Wold-Olsen
Joined the Board and appointed Chairman in June 2008. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
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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.
Fiduciary positions: Chairman of the Board of H. Lundbeck A/S 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.
William E. Hoover, Jr.
Joined the Board in 2007 Deputy Chairman Member of the Remuneration Committe
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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.
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.
Jørgen Bardenfleth
Joined the Board in 2003 Member of the Remuneration Committee
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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.
Fiduciary positions: Chairman of the Boards: Iptronics ApS, Symbion Forskerpark in Copenhagen. Member of the Board: COWI A/S, DHI
Independency: Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.
Wolfgang Reim
Joined the Board in 2008 Member of the Audit Committee
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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.
Fiduciary positions: Deputy chairman of the Board: BB Medtech AG Member of the Board: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG. Chairman of the Audit Committee
Independency: Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.
René Svendsen-Tune
Joined the Board in 2007 Member of the Audit Committee
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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.
Fiduciary positions: Board member of Excitor a/s
Independency: Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.
Carsten Krogsgaard Thomsen
Joined the Board in 2008 Chairman of the Audit Committee
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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.
Fiduciary positions: Deputy Chairman NNIT a/s. Member of the Board of BaneDanmark.
Independency: Complies with the Committee on Corporate Governance’s definition of independency.
Leo Larsen
Joined the Board as representative for the employees June 2007
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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.
Peter Nicolai Bisgaard
Joined the Board in March 2006
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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" |
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