Christen Oesterbye's Linkedin Analytics

CEO • General Manager • Chief Operating Officer • Chief Financial Officer • Entrepreneur Expert on start-up to medium to enterprise size companies • Partnered with venture capitalists and private equity Investors • Expanded businesses internationally • M&A experience from planning through to integration • Built and managed large teams • Delivered operational excellence, customer intimacy and product leadership in fast growing companies. Accomplished Business Leader, deeply experienced in all strategic, operational, financial, M&A, and corporate aspects of building, scaling and running companies. Expert in identifying top talent and building cohesive teams to boost productivity growth for the enterprise. Known for tenacity, long term thinking, and highest standards. Strong knowledge of business cultures of many countries. Fluent in English, Danish and good knowledge of Swedish, Norwegian and some German. • Operational Excellence: Starting from scratch, designed an EMEA holding company structure – including all of the operational and financial processes and infrastructure – for two fast growing companies. • Customer Intimacy: Built pipelines and aligned Marketing and Sales to achieve increased growth by securing small, medium and large accounts and creating re-occurring revenue streams. • Consolidation and Scalability: Transformed a highly fragmented organization that had grown predominantly through acquisitions by implementing a shared service function and streamlining delivery of services and hardware to customers. Specialties: Working in VC and PE funded businesses, delivering financial targets and raising capital to facilitate growth. Constant analysis and improvement of business processes. Hands-on M&A planning and integration – identifying targets, negotiation, due diligence and subsequent integration including hiring people, closing sites, and harmonizing processes, capabilities and systems along the way.