About KMD

Eva Berneke, born in 1969, was appointed CEO of KMD in March 2014. Eva started her career in 1993 with McKinsey & Company, initially in Copenhagen. Later she spent 10 years in France where she became a partner at the Paris office. In 2007, Eva joined TDC as Chief Strategy Officer and was a member of the group management. In 2009, she became Senior Executive Vice President, most recently in charge of TDC Business. Eva is a member of the Board of Directors of LEGO A/S, DTU and Vestas. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Danish Central Bank (Nationalbanken) and a member of le Conseil d'Administration of École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay. Eva has an MSc. (in engineering) from the Technical University of Denmark, from where she graduated in 1992 and she has an MBA from INSEAD (1995).

Jannich Lund, born in 1970, joined KMD as Chief Financial Officer in March 2014. Jannich was CFO at TDC Business and previously held a number of positions in the finance department of TDC. Jannich has an MA in economics (cand.polit) from the University of Copenhagen.

Merete Søby, born in 1974, has been appointed as Executive Vice President in KMD in May 2020. She started her career in 1994 as a trainee at Mærsk. She worked her way up to Marketing and Sales Executive, leaving in 1999 to pursue a new career in the IT industry, which came to define her work in the years ahead. Merete began as Account Manager with US company Compaq/HP, where she spent five years. In 2004, she moved to a position as Sales Director with the Japanese company Fujitsu Siemens Computers, where her responsibilities included sales to the biggest companies in the market. After a number of years heading up marketing, PR and product management for Fujitsu in the Nordic region, in 2008 she moved to Hitachi Data Systems, where she became Managing Director in Denmark, a role that she has filled ever since.

Ruth Wisborg, born in 1967, has been appointed as Executive Vice President in KMD in May 2019. Ruth has 14 years of management experience in KMD, where she always has focused on public customers. At KMD, she has been Vice President of Sales, Client Management and Customer Service in the Central Government and Vice President of Sales in Local Government. Previously, Ruth has held management positions at Fyns Amt and the University of Southern Denmark and have lots of experience with public digitization from the supplier and the customer side. Ruth has a cand.scient.adm. from Aalborg University.

Torben Mols, born 1975, joined KMD as Executive Vice President on the 1st of January 2020. Torben has been employed in KMD since 2011, where he started out as director within the department of KMD Information Management. Next up, he has managed the public ERP business and finally he has been the Vice President for ERP & Administrative Software Solutions within the market of Local Government. Throughout his career, Torben has been working with management, service development and optimization of the public sector and his career began back in 2000 as Development Consultant in Viborg Municipality. In 2003, he moved to Danish Municipalities Revision (today known as BDO) as Management Consultant within Public Finance Management and Optimization. He initiated his career in KMD back in 2007 as Account Manager within the market of Local Government. In 2010, Torben started working as the manager for the Public Consultant Business of BDO within KMD.

Per Johanson, born in 1964, joined KMD as Executive Vice President in 2018. Per Johanson has a degree in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Lund and a MBA from the University of Warwick, UK. He is the former EVP for Financial Services in the Nordic IT company, Tieto. From 2013-2017 he also headed the Swedish branch of the company. Mr. Johanson joined Tieto in 2009 from a position as managing director with the current CGI. He also previously held positions in Atos and in the Swedish insurance business.

Thomas Flarup, born 1974, came to KMD in 2015 as COO. Thomas Flarup is a qualified civil engineer from the Technical University of Denmark. After many years with the Danish Defense – in the military special forces, among others - he began his civil career with Boston Consulting Group in 2005. Then followed a further number of years with TDC. Thomas began as a strategy consultant in 2008 and has consequently held various director positions in a number of telecommunication company’s divisions. Most recently Thomas had the position as Senior Vice President for Solution Sales in TDC Business.

Sudhir Chopade, born in Beed, Maharashtra in India, has been appointed as Head of KMD Software Center (SCE) in October 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Government Engineering College Aurangabad, a Master of Technology from Mumbai University, and an Executive MBA from Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands. He started his career as an engineer at Indian Garware Polyester in 1995. Since then, he has worked with technology and management in international companies such as Baan, Infor, Rolls-Royce, Cordys, and Atos. Sudhir has held roles and responsibilities in Europe, the US, and India for many years. Most recently, he comes from a position as Senior Vice President and Head of Technology in Atos in the Netherlands in charge of the regions Benelux, Nordic, Poland, and Russia.

Søren Henriksen, born 1971, joined KMD as a Executive Vice President in 2011. Søren had worked at IBM as director of IBM Global Business Services in Denmark since 2008. Prior to this, he was director of Nordic business for SAP implementation and maintenance services at IBM. Søren started his career with Price Waterhouse, which later became PwC Consulting. There he spent several years as a management consultant in the United States, England and Sweden, assisting major multinational clients and with a focus on, inter alia, IT-based business transformation. Søren obtained an MSc. in International Marketing and Management in 1995 from CBS. In addition, he obtained a Diploma MBA in 2002 in “Managing IT Software and Service strategically” from the Scandinavian International Management Institute.

Michael Holst started at KMD as Executive Vice President in 2018 from Deloitte in Denmark where he was employed from 2007 till now. He started as HR manager and has, since then, has positions as Deputy head of HR and HR director. As HR Director, he has, since 2016, been head of the HR function of the organization. Prior to Deloitte, Michael Holst has worked with HR for Novo Nordisk and GN Store Nord. Michael Holst is cand.merc HRM from Copenhagen Business school.

Dr. Masakazu Yamashina is Executive Vice President of NEC Corporation and was appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of KMD in February 2019. He has overall responsibility for NEC’s business within Safer Cities, a strategic growth area for NEC at a global level. Dr. Yamashina is also Global Safety Officer for NEC Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Northgate Public Services. Dr. Yamashina is a qualified engineer, with a PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Born 1963. Cand.polit., University of Copenhagen. Other positions of trust: Chairman of the Board in NKT, Nilfisk, Sivantos Inc., Bladt Industries og Børnebasketfonden. Member of the Board in i Cryptomathic, Gyldendal, Royal Unibrew.

Daichi Iwata, born in 1981, leads business development for Digital Finance market at NEC. After graduating from University of Missouri School of Journalism, he joined NEC in 2004. Since then, he has been working for incubating new business and creating ecosystem for social values mainly with financial institutions. New business he’s launched includes FinTech joint venture between NEC Corporation and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and financial inclusion business in India. He is also a member of; Board of brees corporation, joint venture between NEC and SMBC, Governance Innovation Committee, hosted by Ministry of Economy and Trade and Industry of Japan, Global Advisory Board of Copenhagen FinTech, Fellow of World Economic Forum Center for Fourth Industrial Revolution Center.

Born 1962. Service consultant at KMD A/S. Employed in KMD in 1987. Member of the board since 2014.

Born 1970. Operator at KMD A/S. Employed in KMD since 2004. Member of the board since 2014.

Born 1972. Service consultant at KMD A/S. Employed in KMD since 2003. Member of the board since 2014.