Jan 2025 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos · Malmo · Hybrid

Oct 2016 – Sep 2017 · 11 mos

• Vice President of BU Plasticizers
• Responsible for BU plasticizers including P&L, annual business strategy and budget planning, marketing and sales approach across EMEA and Americas. Annual sales of approx. 900MSEK. Member of the Perstorp Leadership Team from 2016 to 2017. I was also one of the representatives on the industry association 'European Plasticizers' (a sector group within CEFIC) representing 85% of the plasticiser production capacity in Europe.

Feb 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Oct 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr

• Product Manager (Plasticizers and Phthalic Anhydride)
• Focus on market expansion in connection with Perstorps Valerox investment in Stenungssund, Sweden. Sales in this segment increased over 250% from 2015 to 2017.

Feb 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Marketing manager for Formaldehyde catalyst and technology. Helped re-establish the formaldehyde business area within Topsoe with tasks involving the launch of a new catalyst, mapping the global formaldehyde production market, marketing material and technical support for sales.

Dec 2012 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Assisted in implementing LEAN management into the Chemicals Business Unit at Haldor Topsoe. Activities included establishing Kaizen and KPI boards for the various departments, Facilitating VSM workshops, PDCA assistance as well as feedback to respective Kaizen/KPI board managers after the weekly board meetings.

Mar 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Product manager: Medium and low temperature shift catalysts
• I coordinated efforts between R&D, technology, marketing, sales, support and the production departments. Annual business plan responsible for LTS and MTS catalysts to the ammonia and hydrogen industries. Product portfolio covered approximately 280MDKK (37MEUR) in annual sales. Global market share for LTS catalysts increased 5% during this period and the new LK853 FENCE(TM) catalyst was successfully launched in the industry and promoted at international conferences.

Apr 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Catalyst specialist in the syngas technical support group. Focussing on hydrogen, methanol, ammonia and sulfuric acid production. Involved in trouble-shooting, on-site assistance, technical quotation preparation and training of new engineers.

Dec 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Involved in preparation of technical quotations, performance evaluations and on-site assistance to clients around the world.

Sep 2007 – Nov 2007 · 2 mos

• Worked with a team of Archaeologists from Australian centre for microscopy and microanalysis to analyse the metal content of megafauna bones (ICP-MS) to accurately date them as a key contribution to the team's objective to demonstrate the prolonged co-existence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia, contradicting the prevailing view that the megafauna were eradicated with the colonisation of Australia by the aborginals.

Mar 2003 – Nov 2007 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Supervised and tutored second year undergraduate laboratory classes in the areas of analytical and inorganic chemistry during the course of my PhD.

Jan 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Taught three preliminary level year 12 high school Chemistry classes which included preparing class notes and tests and marking student examinations.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Research at CSIRO's Telecommunications and Industrial Physics department based in Lindfield, N.S.W. This was done as a joint project together with my PhD at USYD. Research focused on the production of Gold-nanoparticle based materials for use in commercial applications. The CSIRO provided an industrial PhD top-up scholarship over this period.