Wendia International Management

Executive Management

Kerstin Daun
Chief Executive Officer and founder of Wendia

Kerstin Daun has had an impressive career holding several international top management positions. Since the founding of Wendia in 1990 Kerstin has held the position as CEO for the international organization of Wendia.

Kerstin Daun can look back upon a wide range of achievements. She started out as a programmer and systems engineer, before moving on to MRP consultancy and later Sales Manager and responsible for the Nordic country co-operation within ADB Utveckling as well as CEO of ADB’s Norwegian subsidiary. From 1988 Kerstin held the position as International Sales director in SAP, with the responsibility for the big multinational companies worldwide and for helping SAP to start up in the USA and Brazil.

Jørgen Østergaard
Founder of Wendia

Jørgen Østergaard has more than 35 years of professional experience. In the years before founding Wendia in 1990, Jørgen Østergaard ran his own independent business with the mission to support midsize companies in getting internationally established. Most recently, Jørgen Østergaard worked with SAP supporting them for 5 years in their international endeavours. Before that Jørgen Østergaard held several executive positions in HILTI.

Atle Nilssen
Chief Technical Officer & Partner

Atle Nilssen can count more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry and 16 years as Product Manager and partner in Wendia.  As such Atle is the master mind behind Wendias IT Service Management solution POB Point of Business.

Atle represents an invaluable capacity of industry knowledge which benefits Wendia’s employees, partners as well as customers.

Before joining Wendia in 1992 Atle worked with administrative software, especially General Ledger, AR, AP systems and offered independent management consultancy for ERP solutions. 

 
Hans J. L. Fredsted
CEO Wendia Europe

Hans J. L. Fredsted brings more than 20 years of international management experience from among others Shell International and Klépierre and most recently from a position as CEO for Leisure retail Concepts Group. Hans is responsible for managing and growing Wendia's business successfully in the European market.

 

Scandinavia

Maja Seilund
Administration Manager, Wendia Denmark

Maja has been working with Wendia since 2004 and is responsible for administration in Wendia Denmark. Included in her tasks are Human Resources, assistant to the CEO, invoicing, arranging customer events and trainings, and working for the POB User Group.

Maja brings experience from administrative positions in GN Great Nordic and Velux and holds a master degree in business language.


Pernille Brøndum Greve
Customer Relations & PR Manager, Wendia Denmark

Dedicated to bringing the best possible assistance to our customers and making the Wendia employee, customer and partner network share their knowledge for the benefit of all, Pernille will be a person you often meet representing Wendia Denmark. Pernille has been with Wendia for more than 3 years, comes from a background of marketing & communication studies and holds a master degree in the science of arts and culture.

Ivar Grong Nesset
General Manager, Wendia Norway

Ivar Grong Nesset has been the Managing Director of Wendia Norway since its founding in 1992. With more than 17 years of experience with the IT Service Management field Ivar Grong Nesset and the Norwegian team of supporters and consultants guarantees their customers a professional as well as warm and service-minded assistance. 


Ivar Grong Nesset draws on a life-time of experience within the field of IT(since 1977) with a focus on Service Management. IT-Education from Møre & Romsdal DH, Molde (Now – Molde University College) and education in economic and marketing at Handelshøyskolen BI, Oslo.

Germany

Miriam Gögelein
Marketing & Communications , Wendia AG Germany

Starting into 2009, Wendia AG Germany has effectively repositioned itself. Due to company growth and strategic planning a number of basic restructuring measures had to be taken and Jørgen Østergaaard is from January 2009 the Managing Director of Wendia AG Germany. In the field of sales, technical consulting, project management, implementation and training, Wendia customers are professionally taken care of with a network of competent and committed partners.

Miriam Gögelein, responsible for Marketing, PR and Organization in the German speaking countries (D,A,CH)  is your central contact person and always available for Wendia customers, interested prospects and partners. Before she joined Wendia, Miriam Gögelein worked as parliamentary consultant and office manager in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. 

Switzerland

Gregor Ott
Account Manager, Wendia AG Switzerland

Kerstin Daun is responsible as CEO for the Swiss subsidiary of Wendia AG International. Under her guidance and in cooperation with the Wendia Partner Network the Swiss Wendia organization is professionally taking care of business partners, customers and prospects in the area of sales, consulting, implementation and training.

Contact person for all sales relevant questions and issues is Wendia Account Manager Gregor Ott. Since May 2009 Gregor Ott has been supporting customers of Wendia AG Switzerland and Sales activities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. A dedicated cyclist, Gregor Ott is really excited about the outstanding technical quality of POB and Wendia’s strong customer focus.

In the area of Marketing, PR and Organization, Miriam Gögelein is the main contact person for Wendia AG in Switzerland.

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North America

Hal Tueller
CEO, Wendia North America

Hal brings over 25 years of sales, marketing, and customer service experience to Wendia North America. Hal spent 19 years of his career with Computer Associates International, (CA) where he held numerous senior management positions in sales, customer service, and support.  Most recently Hal was President and COO of TecServ, Inc. where he ran the day-to-day operations, including sales, marketing, finance, customer service, and human resources.

 

Kevin Goertzen
CTO, Wendia North America

Kevin has over 25 years of Information Technology experience. Kevin has had responsibilities and leadership positions in post implementation, systems and application architecture, pre-sales, customer support, training and sales.  After having started his IT career in the US Navy, Kevin has held senior technical positions at Stoneware Inc., Center 7 Inc., Computer Associates and others.