OSLO, NORWAY: Skandia Greenpower AS has appointed Lene Johansen, currently commercial director of quickly rising on-line retailer Brandsdal Group, as its new CEO from 1 July 2022.
Current CEO, Gunnar Norheim, stays with the company. The CEO appointment follows Skandia Greenpower’s announcement on 2 February 2022, when the corporate revealed that it had determined to fast-track its deliberate transformation from a conventional electrical energy retailer to a purebred and extra scalable technology firm with a fully digital enterprise mannequin which operates under the Elkompis brand.
“Lene has the perfect expertise and competence combine to develop the disruptive and fully digital Elkompis offering. She has a confirmed track record of constructing fast-growing and worthwhile on-line retail manufacturers and platforms. Having served on Skandia Greenpower’s board of administrators since October final year, she has additionally learned to know and perceive us from the inside. The board of administrators is delighted that she has accepted the CEO role,” says Erik Tønnesen, chairman of Skandia Greenpower’s board of directors.
Lene Johansen joins Skandia Greenpower from a role as commercial director of Brandsdal Group, which is a Norwegian e-commerce firm with presence within the Nordic area together with Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. She has additionally had key role in establishing the group’s mannequin presence in different countries such as Germany, Austria, Poland and the Netherlands Today, Brandsdal Group operates under the BliVakker.no and Netthandelen.no manufacturers in Norway and the Cocopanda mannequin in different Nordic countries. The group and its manufacturers have skilled significant growth and has almost doubled its revenues to NOK 1.3 billion since Johansen in 2016 took on the role of commercial director. In this role, Johansen is overall accountable for all Brandsdal Group’s sales, marketing and buying activities, main a team of fifty people.
Prior to this, Johansen was gross sales supervisor at Netthandelen.no, and held roles in Brandsdal Group as head of social media, HR supervisor and head of buyer service. Today, Johansen is a member of the board of administrators of Skandia Greenpower, Modena Gruppen and Becksöndergaard for Valedo.
Johansen’s main responsibility will be to drive the expansion of Skandia Greenpower’s disruptive and fully digital solution, Elkompis, which is a smart power-app for ordinary homes that targets the Nordic consumer market. Elkompis is based on a fully digitalized platform that enables decrease working costs, decrease costs to customers, decrease buyer acquisition cost, improved operational flexibility and with considerably higher scalability potential.
Johansen will additionally proceed the work to additional simplify and streamline Skandia Greenpower’s present organizational mannequin and construction to match the technique change that was introduced in February this year.
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