Organisation
Managing Board
Dieter Kasprzak
President
Born: 1950
Education:
Product development and design trainee, Pirmasens, Germany
Career in ECCO:
2004- : President of the ECCO Group
2001-2004: Senior Executive Vice President, Product Development. Member of the board ECCO Sko A/S, - Denmark Deputy Managing Director
1991-2001: Executive Vice President, Product Development. Member of the board ECCO Sko A/S, Denmark
Career outside ECCO:
1979-1991: Freelance Designer, ECCO Sko A/S and companies in Germany and Italy
1971-1979: Chief Designer, various European shoe factories
Jens Christian Meier
Executive Vice President, Group Production and Logistics
Born: 1956
Education:
Danish military
Machine Technician
Bachelor in Computer Integrated Manufacturing
EU-Executive Training Programme in Japan
Management and marketing courses at Henley Management College
Career in ECCO:
2004 : Executive Vice President, Group Production and Logistics
2003-2004: Group Production Director
1993-1995: Group Project Manager
1992-1993: Production Manager
1987-1991: Product Development Manager
1982-1987: Production Technician
Career outside ECCO:
1998-2003: Managing Director, Elefanten, a company under the Freudenberg Group and later Clarks
1996-1998: EU-Executive Training Programme, Japan
1979-1982: Production Technician, Danfoss
Annemette Nøhr
Executive Vice President, Finance and Group CFO
Born: 1963
Education:
Various professional courses as well as in-house management courses at ECCO.
2006 : IMD, “Managing Corporate Resources”
1993 : MSc (Auditing) (Cand. Merc. Aud.), Copenhagen Business School
1989 : BSc , Herning Business School, Denmark
Career in ECCO:
2004- : Senior Vice President, Finance in charge of accounting and auditing, budgets, business development and controlling, finance, tax and master data.
1999-2004: Field of responsibility expanded to include controlling function and bookkeeping
1997-1999: Senior Vice President, Finance/CFO in charge of group financial reporting and tax
Career outside ECCO:
1996–1997: Auditor with KPMG, Peat Marwick, New York. Senior of the ICE group (Information/Communication/Entertainment). In charge of planning and audit of a major cable television provider. In charge of the audit of four mid-sized software businesses. Took regular ICE training courses
1992–1994: Auditor with KPMG, C.Jespersen, Aarhus, Denmark. In charge of planning and the audit of for Dansk Supermarked. In charge of the audit of APV, including reviews of work in progress in turnkey projects
1988–1992: Auditor with Askgaard Olesen, Roskilde, Denmark. In charge of 15–20 single proprietorships and small businesses. Studied for MSc while working with Askgaard Olesen
Andreas Wortmann
Executive Vice President, Branding and Products
Born: 1965
Education:
2007 : Managing Corporate Resources Program, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
1986–1987: Scholarship of the German Bundestag and the American Congress “Parliamentary exchange program for high potential young professionals”
1986–1987: Bellevue College, Seattle, USA. Program for Human Relations and General. Management
1982–1985: Tiemann Shoes, Bad Salzuflen, Germany. Dual business education program
Career in ECCO:
2004- : Senior Vice President Branding, ECCO Sko A/S in charge of all ECCO shoe product divisions worldwide. Globally in charge of the brand, product and retail price positioning of all ECCO shoes. In charge of the strategic development of ECCO’s product portfolio
2002- 2004: Senior Vice President ECCO Ladies, ECCO Sko A/S. In charge of the development and positioning of the ECCO Ladies collection globally
Career outside ECCO:
2001–2002: Mephisto Shoes S.A., Sarrebourg, France. International Sales Director. In charge of all wholesale and conceptual sales activities of the brand in more than 50 countries.
1996–2001: MSC Group, MSC AG, Zürich, Switzerland. Director. Member of the strategic business and concept development team of all Holding activities. Development of global brand concepts and licensing ideas for shoes and accessories (license holder for Hugo Boss, Mexx, S. Oliver and Marc O´Polo)
1994–2001: MARC Group, MSC Holding, Hameln, Germany. Managing Director
1992–1993: Paul Green Shoes, Concepta AG, München, Germany. Managing Director
1988–1992: Marc Shoes, MARC GmbH, Hameln, Germany. Product & Marketing Manage
1987–1988: PAUL GREEN Shoes, Salzburg, ELIZABETH GmbH, Austria. Sales and Product Manager
Michael Hauge Sørensen
Executive Vice President, Global Sales
Member of ECCO Management Board since 2010
Born: 1973
Education:
Stanford Executive Program (SEP 2007)
Managing Corporate Resources (IMD)
Asia International Executive Program (AIEP – INSEAD)
Young Managers Program (YMP – INSEAD)
HH(X)
Career in ECCO:
2002–2009 Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong
2000–2002 Regional Sales Director, Emerging Markets
1998–2000 Executive Assistant
1996–1998 Regional Manager, Eastern Europe
1994–1996 ECCO Management Trainee Programme
Career outside ECCO:
Past Vice-Chairman of Danish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
Member of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Retail Committee
Member of VL 71, Shanghai