Meet the Kverneland Group Management
The Kverneland Group Management is responsible for running Kverneland Group on a day-to-day basis. The (executive) Board of Directors ensures alignment between operations and corporate functions and setting company policies of our divisions globally.
(Executive) Board of Directors
| Group President & CEO | - | Kazunari Shimokawa |
| Arable Systems Division | - | Patrick Verheecke |
| Harvest Systems Division 1 | - | Claus Udengaard Thomsen |
| Marketing & Sales 2 | - | Arild Gjerde |
| Strategy & Planning | - | Takehiro Ueda |
Group Functions
| After Sales | - | Magne Svendsen |
| Finance, Tax & Legal 3 | - | Tor Magne Brunes |
| Human Resources | - | Alex Sikkens |
| Information Technology | - | Bård Berntsen |
| Manufacturing | - | Junsei Komiyama |
| Mechatronics | - | Sanne de Voogd |
| Operations Arable Division 4 | - | Hasan Kesek |
| Procurement | - | Masahiko Koshidaka |
| Business Development | - | Jochen Samulowitz |
| Marketing & Communications | - | Marieke Maris |
| The above members and management below are part of the Kverneland Group Senior Management Forum (SMF). | ||
| Sales International 5 | - | Martin Nordhaus |
| Sales France | - | Franck Adam |
| Sales Germany | - | Niels Veltmann |
| Sales Scandinavia | - | Mats Tykesson |
| Sales United Kingdom | - | Joe Bell |
| Sales Benelux | - | Walter Ruiterkamp |
| 1 | Also responsible for Group Research & Development and the Kerteminde plant (Denmark) |
| 2 | Responsibility includes Group Marketing & CRM, and all Sales Companies including Kverneland Group International. In addition to those listed above in the SMF the Sales Companies in the following countries are direct reports: Ireland, Spain, and Italy. |
| 3 | Also Secretary of the (Executive) Board of Directors |
| 4 | Responsible for Soest plant (Germany) |
| 5 | Responsibility includes the Sales Companies: Kverneland Group International, Russia, Czech, Hungary, Poland, China, and Production Facilities in Daqing (China) and Lipetsk (Russia) |