MANAGEMENT TEAM

Jan Thorell

Chief Executive Officer, Nordic & Baltics

Jan Thorell joined SAP Nordic on 1 September 2010. As head of business and with more than 500 employees in the Nordic organization, Jan is responsible for the strategy, vision and focus necessary for SAP to continue its pace, growth and position in the Nordic and Baltic region.

Jan comes from Oracle where he has served as Vice President Nordic (middleware) since 2008, when the company acquired BEA Systems.
Prior to that Jan held various leadership positions in BEA Systems and has
had several senior management positions in companies like Eastman Kodak Company and Wang Systems.

Throughout his career Jan has delivered strong results and earned a solid reputation as a visionary leader with a strong market and customer focus. He attributes his stellar track record to his approach to leadership which in his own words is to focus on growth, discipline and being a team player.

Jan has a degree in Economics from the University of Stockholm.

Jørgen Bo Johansen

Nordic Chief Financial Officer

Jørgen Bo Johansen joined SAP in 2001 as Nordic CFO and a member of the Nordic Executive Leadership Team.

He plays an instrumental role in supporting local managers with the modernization and development of a regional infrastructure within financial services. Jørgen Bo is responsible for finance and administration, risk management and legal issues.

Prior to joining SAP, Jørgen Bo spent 11 years in the FLS Group, a global engineering and construction company. He served the last six years as CFO and VP of FLSmidth Fuller Engineering, which includes 80 corporations, a turnover of DKK 8 billion and a staff of 4,000 employees. As well as being CFO and VP, Jørgen Bo also held a number of board positions in many of the companies owned by the FLS Group.

Jørgen Bo Johansen holds a master’s degree in finance & business administration.

Maj Britt Andersen

Vice President HR & Transformation, EMEA & HR Director, Nordic & Baltics

Maj Britt Andersen is Nordic HR Director within the SAP Group. In this position, she won the prestigious title of "Best Danish HR manager in 2005" awarded to her by PID (the Danish HR Managers‘ Association) for her work to transform HR into a true partner to the business.

Maj Britt Andersen is European HR Director within the SAP Group. This role comprises the overall management responsibility of HR activities in UK, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Nordic & Baltics, Benelux, Italy and Iberia. Apart from this, Maj Britt also holds the position as Nordic HR Director, for which she won the prestigious title as ’Best Danish HR Manager in 2005’ awarded to her by PID (the Danish HR Managers’ Association - Personalechefer i Danmark) for her work to transform HR into a true partner to the business.

Maj Britt has been a member of the SAP Nordic Leadership Team since 2004 and the European HR Leadership Team since 2005. She is responsible for activities related to HR transformation, change management as well as organizational and management development.

Before becoming Nordic HR Director, Maj Britt served as HR Director within the Danish SAP organization. She joined SAP in 2003, after working as a business consultant for seven years in Accenture – one of SAP’s global partners.

Maj Britt Andersen holds two master’s degrees: A Master of Science in International Business and Modern Languages and a Master in Business Administration (MBA).

Adolfo Hoffmann Linhard

Head of Services, Nordic & Baltic region

Since September 1, 2011, Adolfo leads SAP Services in the Nordic and Baltic region that comprise SAPs multi-faceted consulting as well as education services business. In this role, Adolfo is part of the executive Nordic leadership team.

Adolfo studied economics in Berlin and holds a PhD in strategic management. He has been in several executive positions with renowned IT consulting and software companies. Since his entry at SAP eight years ago, Adolfo has successfully contributed to SAP today offering a value-driven and broad portfolio of consulting services that offer our customers the whole array from strategic to implementation consulting for their IT-projects.

With a longstanding and sterling experience in leadership and business management on national as well as international level, Adolfo will be the driving force to further develop and provide smart and resultdriven consulting and education services to our growing customer base in the Nordic and Baltic region.

Dan Ahlstedt

Chief Operating Officer, Nordic & Baltics

Dan Ahlstedt joined SAP in 2003 and is today the Nordic COO.

Dan is responsible for ensuring that the SAP Nordic and Baltic organization helps customers to become best run businesses. Tasks involve solution management, sales operations, maintenance sales, value engineering, alliance management and marketing. Dan is a member of the Board of SAP Finland Oy, SAP Labs Finland Oy and Merlin Systems Oy.

Previously, Dan drove the midmarket activities and actions throughout the Nordic and Baltic region. He has also served as Managing Director of SAP Finland.

Dan is named as one of the leading influencers in the Finnish ICT markets by Tietoviikko, ComputerWorld Finland, the leading Finnish weekly ICT newspaper. Tietoviikko conducts the survey annually among the Finnish CIOs.

He has 15 years’ work experience within ICT distribution mainly at TechData Corporation, where he held numerous position including VP & GM TechData US, VP Marketing EMEA, Managing Director for Tech Data International SARL, and Managing Director for the region of Finland, Baltics and Russia.