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Meet the Kverneland Group Management

The Management is responsible for running Kverneland Group on a day-to-day basis. The (executive) Board of Directors ensures alignment between operations and corporate functions and setting company policies of our divisions globally.

(Executive) Board of Directors

Group President & CEO  - Arild Gjerde
EVP Supply Chain - Lars Rotseth
EVP Strategic Product Management and R&D - Claus Udengaard Thomsen
EVP Sales and Distribution1 - Arild Gjerde
EVP Commercial Strategy & Operations - Martin Nordhaus
Strategy & Planning  - Shin Toda
Finance, Tax & Legal2 - Tor Magne Brunes

Group Functions

Marketing & Communications - Marieke Maris
After Sales  - Renaud Peine
Business Development - Jochen Samulowitz
Human Resources - Kim Cassim
Information Technology - Bård Berntsen
The above members and management below are part of the Kverneland Group Senior Management Forum (SMF).
Sales Area I3 - Karl Engelbrecht
Sales Area II4 - Karl Engelbrecht
Sales France    - Franck Adam
Sales Germany   - Niels Veltmann
Sales Scandinavia - Mats Tykesson
Sales United Kingdom - Daniel Crowe 
Sales Benelux - Iljan Schouten
Plant Director Klepp (Norway) - John Karstein Tønnessen
Plant Director Ravenna (Italy) - Filippo Gallieri
Managing Director ROC AG (Italy) - Fabio Di Lorenzo
Plant Director Soest (Germany) - Hasan Kesek
Plant Director Kerteminde (Denmark) - Poul Henrik Jørgensen
Plant Director Nieuw-Vennep (the Netherlands)  - Ronald Harmsen
Plant Director LLG (France)     - Guillaume Hulin 

 

1  Sales Area I, Sales Area II, of which Kverneland Group Germany and Kverneland Group France are direct reports
2  Also Secretary of the (Executive) Board of Directors
3  Responsibility includes the Sales Companies: Kverneland Group Benelux, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Iberica, Italy, Ireland.
4  Responsibility includes the Sales Companies: Kverneland Group International, Russia, Poland, China, and Production Facilities in Daqing (China) and Lipetsk (Russia)
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