Kasper Rorsted

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Kasper Rorsted , actually Rørsted, (born February 24, 1962 in Aarhus , Denmark ) is a Danish manager and has been the CEO of Adidas AG since October 1, 2016 . He was previously CEO of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA until April 30, 2016 .

Life

Rorsted's father, Bendt Rørsted, is an economics professor in Aarhus . Rorsted attended Niels Brock College , a secondary school in Denmark. He also completed Executive Summer Programs at Harvard Business School . By 1995 Rorsted had held various management positions in sales and marketing at Oracle and DEC . He then switched to notebook and desktop computer manufacturer Compaq , where he was head of the Compaq Enterprise Business Group for the regions Europe , Middle East and Africa .

Rorsted was Senior Vice President and General Manager at Hewlett-Packard from 2002 to 2004 . In 2005 he was appointed a member of the management team of the Henkel Group and in this role was responsible for the Human Resources / Purchasing / Information Technology / Infrastructure Services division. From January 2007 to April 2008 he was Deputy Chairman of the Management Board.

Kasper Rorsted was elected CEO of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA at the annual general meeting on April 14, 2008 . He replaced Ulrich Lehner , who moved to the Henkel Shareholders' Committee .

He has been a member of the Management Board since August 1, 2016 and Chairman of the Management Board of Adidas AG since October 1, 2016 .

Kasper Rorsted is married, has four children and speaks Danish , English , German and Swedish .

Quotes

“What speaks against it if a DFB Cup final were to be held in Shanghai instead of in Berlin? I support that and see it as an opportunity. "

- Kasper Rorsted : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Individual evidence

  1. Harry Motor: Fuld fart strangers. Erindringer 1962-1996. Lindhardt og Ringhof 2017, ISBN 8-711-8072-10 .
  2. a b New Henkel boss: Without stable smell wiwo.de, April 9, 2008.
  3. Kasper Rorsted. In: RP Online. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
  4. Kasper Rorsted. In: Bloomberg News. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
  5. Kasper Rorsted: The expulsion from HP was worth it Computerwoche, April 11, 2008.
  6. Successor to Ulrich Lehner: Dane to be the new Henkel boss RP-Online, December 19, 2006.
  7. Kasper Rorsted new CEO of Henkel Press release on the Henkel website, April 14, 2008.
  8. The two big opponents of the new Adidas boss . Die Welt , January 18, 2016
  9. Kasper Rorsted: The idols are global today. Interview with C. Busse and U. Ritzer, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung am weekend, 15./16./17. April 2017, p. 29.