Management

Anna Marie Spring,

Senior Vice President VELUX Commercial

Anna Spring is overall responsible for the Commercial Division.
Anna joined VELUX Commercial in 2020 as senior marketing director, from a position as Director of eBusiness in VELUX. Anna also had significant responsibility in building up the eCommerce channel in VELUX. Before that she was head of marketing and products in the VELUX Group’s sister company, Altaterra. Anna has a master’s degree in International Business and a graduate diploma in accounting.

Lars Kragsig Højgaard

Vice President Supply

Lars Kragsig Højgaard is globally responsible for VELUX Commercial eight factories in five countries.
Lars began his career in the VELUX Group in 1998 within Product Management and has held several positions in VELUX mainly within the Supply area and has a technical education as M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and a graduate diploma in Business administration.

Jacob Kjeldgaard Olsen

Senior Director, Business integration and development

Jacob Kjeldgaard Olsen is responsible for strategic business development, M&A, portfolio management, communication and integration in VELUX Commercial.
He began his career in the VELUX Group in 2005 and has held managing positions within sales and process excellence and related to strategy, people and change. He has headed several global strategic transformation programmes in the VELUX Group. Jacob has a masters degree in industrial engineering.

Hanne Gibsholm Maretti

Director Marketing

Hanne Gibsholm Maretti is responsible for VELUX Commercial Marketing globally including digital channels, media and content. Hanne has worked within e-Business and digital marketing in VELUX since 2017 in managerial positions. Before she joined VELUX in 2017, Hanne worked in GN from 2015 with responsibility for digital platforms and before that in MAN Energy Solutions in digital communication (2010-15).
Hanne has a master's degree in International Communication from Roskilde University and certifications from Mount Royal University, Canada.

Michael Wieting

Vice President Finance, EPS

Michael Wieting is since 2019 responsible for VELUX Commercial Finance and IT. He also has the management responsibility for our thermo technology business.
Michael joined the JET Group as Finance manager in 2001, and from 2006 to 2018, he was CFO of the JET Group. (Acquired by VELUX in 2018). Before that he has held positions as financial controller in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. Michael has a masters’ degree in business economics (international business) with focus on finance and accounting from the University of Osnabrück.

Charlotte Rømeling

Senior Director, HR

Charlotte Rømeling is responsible for global HR and joined VELUX Commercial in 2020 from a position as HR Director, Hilti Denmark.
During her career, Charlotte has gained experience within driving change, developing organisations and building teams as well as within mergers, recruiting, onboarding and talent management. Charlotte has a Master of arts, German and International Studies.

Thomas Juul Jensen

Vice President Sales

Thomas Juul Jensen is responsible for VELUX Commercial Sales in 13 countries.
Thomas joined VELUX Commercial in 2020 from a position as Business Director in Rockpanel. Before that, he was VP Finance for ROCKWOOL North America and based in Toronto. He has held management positions within Finance, IT, Business Development and Sales, working in six different countries. Thomas has a master’s degree in Economics.

John-Erik Sommer Børresen

Senior Director, Offering Management

John-Erik Sommer Børresen has the end-to-end accountability of the entire life-cycle experience covering product portfolio, configuration systems and services.
John-Erik joined VELUX Commercial in 2021 from a position as VP Global Product Management & Technical Services at GN. Before that he has held global management positions within Product & Portfolio Management, Business Development and Business Unit ownership in companies such as ROCKWOOL, Motorola Solutions, NOKIA, Schneider Electric, PHILIPS, and the medical industry.

Klaus Lorentzen

Vice President Global Product, Develop & Optimise

Klaus has the responsibility for ‘Develop & optimise’ in the VELUX Group’s R&D, working with all VELUX products. In this function Klaus and two of his teams are responsible for R&D for VELUX Commercial.
Klaus began his career in the VELUX Group in 1994 and he has held several commercial and technical positions. Klaus has also worked for a number of years in marketing and management in VELUX Germany, and he has experience within Product management, Marketing, R&D, Service and Supply. Klaus has a technical education as Engineer and a commercial degree within business administration.

Rostislav Geržičák

Director IT
Rostislav is responsible for IT in VELUX Commercial. Rostislav joined VELUX in 1998 and he has headed a number of larger global IT projects and held managerial IT positions in VELUX since 2002. Rostislav had significant responsibility for developing Global IT Support organization in VELUX, which he is also heading now. Rostislav has MBA IS/IT route degree.