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Thorbjorn Machholm

Thorbjorn Machholm works with corporate venturing, business incubation, business development and investment management. He is involved with management of start-ups, is board member of four companies, and a board member of www.alpcon.com.

Headline: Innocent Bystander
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.grundfos.com
Industries: Cleantech
Skills: Business, Danish, English, Entrepreneurship, French, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Norwegian, Public Relations, Sales, Swedish
Groups: Innovit, Venture Cup Denmark, Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy
Interested in: Advising startups, Employment opportunities, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities
Tags: Cleantech, connect denmark, Entrepreneurship, leadership and board positions, nordic cleantech open

FULL BIO

Thorbjorn Machholm works as a director with corporate venturing, business development and portfolio company management. Also, he is involved with top level lobbying and public afairs activities.

Prior to that, he worked with crossfunctional / cross-cultural management, sales development, strategic planning and business controlling in many parts of the world. '

He has extensive international experiences from many countries and regions. A substantial part of his career falls within large international companies. He has worked with development and execution of strategies on strategic HQ level as well as on regional management level, and he has completed a multitude of assignments and missions on operational field sales level as well as within complex organizational structures and different cultural environments. His professional background falls within sales/marketing, business development, finance & accounting (HQ/subsidiary reporting, budgets/controlling), operations & logistics, and international project management.

He holds two master degrees as well as executive training. Stanford University, GSB Alumni.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Grundfos Holding A/S
Position: Director, Business Development

Thorbjorn is Following (18)

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  • KYAB

    KYAB is a cleantech startup changing the world by reducing energy usage in buildings, http://twitter.com/kyab also check out KYAB on facebook !

  • SecondWell

    Supplying safe drinking water with wind driven wells

  • Driptech

    Driptech makes affordable drip irrigation for small-plot farmers in developing countries.

  • Fylgiskar

    Fylgifiskar is a gourmet fish shop in Reykjavik, Iceland

Thorbjorn's Contacts (5)

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  • Henrik Skov Laursen

    Establishing a Grundfos Water Technology Centre in Fresno, CA for government, research and academic institutions and small start-up companies and internal stakeholders organizations who seek a place to share and gather knowledge on water technology.

  • Dan Steketee

    Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .

  • Anne Ernst

    Economics graduate, pursuing MSc at Copenhagen Business School. Founder of “Creating a Positive Future” , currently working as Business Analyst at IBM Denmark and as Shadow Cabinet Member at CBS.

  • Javier Colon

    A creative social entrepreneur seeking to assist in the development of challenging projects in the USA which aim to empower and motivate underprivileged youth.