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Per D. Pedersen

MSc Dairy Science And MBA In Strategy
Tønder

Summary

Being brought up in dairy company with hard work being part of daily life the direction was set after teenage years and practical dairy jobs in DK and US was the initiation to go dairy science and interest in microbiology and technical application going for cultures!

This has been a personal success story, with too much focus on the job because it also was my hobby always to make sure I was on top of the newest science in dairy research as well as probiotic research!

Hard work, reading the market/clients needs well and developing according strategies and products GEA the success in all jobs next to being able to find and hire the best talents!

Also gave me access to professional boards like LASBIP, EFFCA a.o. Enabling an important influence on the whole industry over the years.

Overview

41
41
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Languages

Work History

CEO/President, Board of Directors

CSL USA
Franksville
2019.10 - 2023.09

Selecting and acquiring site, selecting construction company and engineers, developing project and building new factory at well as hiring and building new business in USA.

Dir.Business Dev.

Sacco SRL
Cadorago
2001.09 - 2021.09

Facilitated growth from 2 to 150 mil.$ business within cultures for food and supplements, developing strategy, building plants, building export network, developing new product portfolio and also acquisitions.

Always kept fantastic EBITDA's, in fact some of the best of all Italian companies!

The owners then asked me to do same again in USA for CSL USA!

Global Buisiness Director for Cultures

Danisco
Niebuell
1999.01 - 2001.08

Continued running the Wisby business and integrating it into Danisco while growing it 17-18% per year, but as all the promises from the beginning were overridden by the major acquisition of Cultor I decided to leave as soon as the integration was finished.

Managing Director

Wisby DK
Tønder
1987.01 - 2001.08

Wisby Denmark being Independent owned Company but part of the same group was a huge part of the Wisby success story, growing very fast in its sales areas and having huge EBITDA's then lending all the money to Wisby GmbH in Germany!

Managing Director

Wisby Aps
Tønder
1987.01 - 2001.07

Wisby Aps owned by same owners but independent company was huge part of the Wisby success story, as sales grew enormously and EBITDA's were out of the world we could lend Wisby GmbH a lot of money and were the largest capital provider apart from owners directly into Wisby GmbH.

CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer)

Wisby GmbH & Co.
Niebuell
1989.01 - 1998.12

Head of technial part of Wisby, all from oprations, R&D, application and partly Sales&marketing.

Enabling growth of 20% or more per year with fantastic EBITDA's All till sold to Danisco because owners no more could agree on how to run the company.

Technical Director Wisby

Wisby
Niebuell
1987.01 - 1989.12

In charge of operations, R&D and application of Wisby till a pointe CEO in 1987.

Sales and Marketing Manager

Wisby Aps
Tønder
1982.07 - 1986.12

Laboratorium Visby Aps, later Wisby Aps, was sales and marketing company of owners of Wisby GmbH and as such apart from running sales for certain markets I also ran application and partly product development of Wisby .

Huge success in sales and earnings giving me the opportunity to be promoted within the group...

Education

MBA - Strategy

INSAID
Fontainbleau
1999.09 - 2000.09

Master of Science - Dairy Science

Cph. University (former KVL)
Frederiksberg
1977.07 - 1982.06

Skills

Cooperative team leader

Hiring

Technical/microbial dev Food fermentation,-protection and probiotics

Application, Sales&marketing

Timeline

CEO/President, Board of Directors

CSL USA
2019.10 - 2023.09

Dir.Business Dev.

Sacco SRL
2001.09 - 2021.09

MBA - Strategy

INSAID
1999.09 - 2000.09

Global Buisiness Director for Cultures

Danisco
1999.01 - 2001.08

CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer)

Wisby GmbH & Co.
1989.01 - 1998.12

Managing Director

Wisby DK
1987.01 - 2001.08

Managing Director

Wisby Aps
1987.01 - 2001.07

Technical Director Wisby

Wisby
1987.01 - 1989.12

Sales and Marketing Manager

Wisby Aps
1982.07 - 1986.12

Master of Science - Dairy Science

Cph. University (former KVL)
1977.07 - 1982.06
Per D. PedersenMSc Dairy Science And MBA In Strategy