Dreaminfluence

Chief Executive Officer

Joined as Chairman at less than 5k EUR MRR -> Guided the management team through bootstrapping the company to a +1M EUR acquisition in less than 2 years 
- Led the sale of the company in cooperation with the CEO

Chairman Of The Board Of Directors

Morningscore

WakeupData

I joined the Board of Directors Jan 2023, to help the founders and investors achieve an exit within three years, with a specific target in mind.

18 months later we exceeded all expectations!

Channable acquired WakeUpData.

A truly fantastic outcome for the founders and investors, that presented an amazing opportunity to join forces and create a true market-leading player in Europe.

Board Member

WeOrder Hospitality Technologies holding

WeOrder Hospitality Technologies holding is the holding co of Quickorder, and other hospitality tech companies.

Group COO

QuickOrder ApS

- CEO for 6 years 
- Group COO for 1 year
- Took the company from 0 to 6.5M EUR ARR *(4M ARR as CEO)
- Grew the company from 0 to 60+ people *(40+ people as CEO)
- Created the companies high performing hiring and talent acquisition methodology 
- Led and completed funding rounds of a total of 6M EUR *(3M+ as CEO)
- Led the M&A with Weorder
- Led the acquisition of Rostlog

COO & Co-founder

OnLine Telemarketing ApS

Hired as cold caller (Danish title: Canvas sælger) (Weekendavisen) 28th of February 2012 

Promoted to SQL Sale rep(Danish title: Opfølgningssælger) (Weekendavisen) 11th of April 2012 

Promoted to Team leader (Danish title: Teamleder) (Lolland Falster Folketidende) 17th. of September 2013 

Promoted to Team manager (100+ employees) (Danish title: Teamchef) (Jyllandsposten) 1st of May 2014 

Tasks as team leader: 
-Leading and coordinating the Lolland Falster Folketidende(LFF) cold calling and SQL sales team consisting of 4 employees. 
-Mostly selling to consumers, but also a bit to businesses (only SQL sales B2B) 
-Responsible for key KPIs, quantity of sales, hit rate, average marks. 
-Hiring new employees for LFF -Coaching new employees on LFF cold calling and SQL team. -Developing campaign material and sales concepts 
-Coaching, improving, and motivating the employees. 

I was team leader for 8 months; the first month was a start-up month, so it's actually 7 months with managing and developing employees. I'm proud to say that we NEVER missed a single quota. In all 7 months, we never missed a single one and often exceeded the index widely. With 4 employees we made 2118 sales in those 7 months. 

May 1st, I was promoted to Team Manager. My tasks were pretty much the same as team leader, but on a much larger scale. 

My tasks as Team Manager: 
-Leading and coordinating the Jyllands posten cold calling sales team consisting of 100+ employees. 
-Hitting targets, quantity of sales, hitrate, average marks. 
-Hiring new employees for Online Telemarketing. 
-Coaching new employees on Jyllands posten canvas team. 
-Developing campaign material and sale concepts. 
-Coaching, improving, and motivating the employees. 
-Handling job interviews with new potential employees.

Team Manager (Danish: Teamchef)

Lynjewelry

The brand lynjewelry was my first entrepreneurial experience, 
I sold Lynjewelry March 2014.

Founder

I'm an ambitious C-level leader with over 10 years of experience in a high-growth environment; I've demonstrated excellent capabilities in funding, operations management, analytics, sales, strategy, business planning, talent acquisition, early stage finance, liquidity forecasting, leadership, and product strategy.

Only the best possible results can satisfy me; I'm never happy with an indifferent result. I believe in the power of building the right team and that great companies are built by great people. In a hyper-competitive world, the chase for talent has never been a more bloody battlefield; hence building culture and bringing on the right talent is paramount to any success.

My key traits:
- Initiative - I'm a doer
- ambition - I always strive for the best
- result orientated - I focus on tangible outputs in measurable and quantifiable terms.

My five biggest forces are:

1. My strategic mind
2. My natural ability to develop my surroundings. Trying to get the best out of my employees.
3. My ability to coordinate small as well as big projects
4. My ability to inspire and create following from peers, stakeholders, investors, etc.
5. My problem-solving capabilities, good under pressure, and at finding solutions on the spot when needed.

Mads 🍎 Wedderkopp

Blazar Capital

Leader at Blazar Capital (active in Denmark and the USA). Responsibilities include: 
- Assisting current portfolio companies in driving growth and profitability and developing new ventures
- Shaping the strategy for Blazar Capital
- Leading M&A transactions and investment decisions
- Leading fundraising efforts (debt and equity)
- Recruiting management teams
- Negotiations of contracts (management incentive packages, shareholder agreements, share purchase agreements, investment agreements, financing agreements, sponsorship agreements etc.)
- Leading financial processes

Chief Financial Officer

Axcel

- Private Equity investment professional working on investments (driving end-to-end M&A processes including modeling, valuation, due diligence, financing, SPA etc.) and portfolio companies (strategy, board work, sparring with CxOs etc.)
- Part of the investment team of Mountain Top Group and GUBI investments
- Board observer at Mountain Top Group

Investment Manager

McKinsey & Company

- Led large high impact projects within a broad range of strategic and operational topics
- Served clients in multiple industries and geographies around the globe

Senior Engagement Manager

Nordea Markets, Corporates & Institutions

- Worked in a highly demanding position at Nordea Corporate Finance while studying M.Sc. Degree
- Assisted the deal teams with Corporate Finance related (e.g. valuation, peer analysis, and primary research)

Investment Banking Analyst

Goldman Sachs

- Internship at Goldman Sachs, Investment Banking Division, London
- Staffed in the TMT and Industrials groups working on large multinational deals and pitches

Summer Analyst

Dansk Erhvervsudvikling A/S

- Part-time position while studying
- Assisted the partners with Private Equity related work, and ad hoc tasks at the office

Analyst

Chief Financial Officer at Blazar Capital - well rounded business executive with strong analytical skills and experience within
- Strategy, business development and operational excellence 
- Investing, M&A, private equity, valuation and finance
- Contract negotiation (e.g. management incentive packages, shareholder agreements, share purchase agreements, investment agreements, financing agreements, sponsorship agreements)
- Entrepreneurship (e.g. developing new ventures)

Previous positions and education
- Axcel (private equity), McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs 
- M.Sc. in Finance and Accounting (#1 GPA of the class) 
- Former elite tennis player (represented Danish national team as a junior) 

International experience from having lived in four different countries on three different continents, and worked in +20 countries

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