Board of Directors
All the members of the Board of Directors were elected at the Annual General Meeting for a term of one year.
Niels Jacobsen
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Born in 1957
Member of the board of directors since the year 2005
Education
Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Aarhus in Denmark
Board positions
Nissens A/S (chairman)
KIRKBI A/S (deputy chairman)
The Thomas B. Thrige Foundation (chairman)
ABOUT YOU Holding GmbH (deputy chairman)
Directorships in several wholly and partly owned companies in the
William Demant Group:
William Demant Holding A/S (deputy chairman)
Sennheiser Communications A/S (board member)
Vision RT Ltd. (chairman)
Founders A/S (chairman)
Boston Holding A/S (board member)
Jeudan A/S (chairman)
HIMPP A/S (chairman)
Experience
Mr. Jacobsen has broad management experience both as CEO and as chairman
in major international companies, he is currently the CEO of William
Demant Invest. Previous positions include CEO of William Demant
Holding, President of Orion A/S and Vice President overseeing corporate
affairs for both Atlas Danmark A/S and Thrige-Titan A/S.
Other
Mr. Jacobsen has no interest links with the Company’s main clients or competitors.
Mr. Jacobsen is a dependent member of the Board
Kristján Tómas Ragnarsson
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Born in 1943
Member of the board of directors since the year 1999
Education
Graduate of University of Iceland Medical School (1969)
Certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
(1976)
Experience
Chairman and Lucy Moses Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation
Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
(1986-2016). Has held numerous other leadership positions at Mount
Sinai as well as in various American professional and cultural
organizations. Dr. Ragnarsson current title is Emeritus Professor and
Chairman of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai.
Other
Dr. Ragnarsson has no interest links with the Company’s main clients,
competitors, or major shareholders.
Dr. Ragnarsson is a dependent member of the Board.
Arne Boye Nielsen
Member of the Board of Directors
Born in 1968
Member of the board of directors since the year 2009
Education
Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Copenhagen Business
School in Denmark
Board positions
Sennheiser Communications A/S (member)
Interacoustics A/S (president)
Experience
Mr. Nielsen has spent his entire career with William Demant Holding A/S
in various and expanding roles throughout the world. After working as a
management assistant to Mr. Niels Jacobsen and as an interim General
Manager of Oticon Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Nielsen assumed, in 1996, his
current position as President of Diagnostic Instruments, which has
operations worldwide.
Other
Mr. Nielsen has no interest links with the Company’s main clients or competitors. Mr. Nielsen is a dependent member of the Board.
Svafa Grönfeldt
Member of the Board of Directors
Born in 1965
Member of the board of directors since the year 2008
Education
Doctorate in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics
Experience
Dr. Grönfeldt is the senior advisor to the Dean at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology SA+P, a founding member of MIT’s newest
innovation accelerator DesignX, and a co-founder of the MET fund, a
Cambridge based seed investment fund. Previous positions include Chief
Organizational Development Officer of Alvogen, an international generic
pharmaceutical company, President of Reykjavik University, deputy to
the CEO of Actavis Group, Assistant Professor of Economics and Business
Administration at the University of Iceland and Managing Director and
Managing Partner of IMG Gallup/ Deloitte.
Other
Dr. Grönfeldt has no interest links with the Company’s main clients, competitors, or major shareholders. Dr. Grönfeldt is an independent Board member.
Guðbjörg Edda Eggertsdóttir
Member of the Board of Directors
Born in 1951
Member of the board of directors since the year 2013
Education
Master’s degree (Pharm.) from Copenhagen University
Board positions
Brunnur Investment Fund (chairman)
Florealis ehf. (chairman)
Coripharma Holding ehf (chairman)
Orf Genetics hf. (member)
MentisCura ehf. (member)
Mentis Cura A/S (member)
Vistor hf. (member)
Heilsulausnir ehf. (member)
Saga Natura ehf. (member)
Pretium ehf. (Chairman)
Experience
Previous positions include President & EVP Strategic Projects of Actavis
Plc in Iceland, a global integrated specialty pharmaceutical company;
Deputy CEO and EVP Third Party Sales at Actavis Group hf.; Deputy CEO,
Head of R&D, Assistant Managing Director, Development Manager,
Regulatory Manager and Marketing Manager at Delta hf.; and Medical
Representative at Pharmaco hf. She was the President of the European
Generic Medicines Association (now Medicines for Europe) from
2011-2013.
Other
Ms. Eggertsdóttir has no interest links with the Company’s main clients or competitors. Ms. Eggertsdóttir is an independent member of the Board