Amanda Galston

Amanda joined Relocare as a relocation agent in September of 2021.

.Originally from the state of Virginia, she has lived internationally for twenty-five years. After studying International Business at John Moores University, UK, Amanda lived and worked in England, Cyprus, Jordan, Mexico, and St Thomas.

Upon returning to the United States, she pursued a MFA in Historic Restoration and Preservation at Savannah College of Art and Design, following her interest in history and urban development.

With another move, Amanda joined the management team of Think Food Group to oversee expansions in the Washington Dc metropolitan region. After a spouse’s transfer to California, she enjoyed the sunshine and ocean while managing social media for a growing, online retail business.

The most recent transfer has led to Copenhagen, inspiring a great passion for her current city. Exploring Scandinavia has led to an understanding of the culture and its opportunities for families with similar goals.

Bent-Ole Kristensen

Relocation in Jutland with care and a high level of experience.

Bent -Ole is based in Jutland at our office in Glyngøre, and has international business experience throughout the world in Greenland, Japan, the Middle East, Brazil, and in many European countries.

He studied at Sønderborg Technical School and then at Aalborg School of Engineering. He is an experienced mechanical engineer and teacher, and has instructor and management training by the Department of Defense in Denmark.

Bent-Ole Kristensen has many years of business and management experience from AP Møller-Maersk, Grundfos, the Department of Defense, the public sector, labor department and education sector. He has a combined 25 years of experience working with international colleagues, employees, partners, and students. He approaches his positions with a positive attitude, and places great value on providing the highest quality services.

Bent-Ole Kristensen is a Senior Relocation Consultant at Relocare and is assisting our clients with all relocation tasks

Esben Porse

Esben Hans Lim Porse is an experienced Relocation agent, and Marketing Assistant and joined Relocare in August 2018.

Esben was born in Singapore and relocated to Denmark at a very young age. He has always had an interest learning about different cultures, hereby considering he was brought up in a multicultural family and loved travelling around the world.

Esben’s background includes a bachelor’s in International Sales and Marketing Management at Zealand Institute of Business and Technology and is currently studying his Master in Business administration and Leadership at Roskilde University.

Esben had a short internship period at W hydrocolloids, located in the Philippines, to learn the insights on how a midsized international company operated.
Additionally he was an intern at Scan-Shipping & Shipco Transport, which are Danish shipping companies, as part of his Marketing Management education. He spent equal amounts of time at their Copenhagen office and their Singaporean office.

Esben will contribute and make use of the theoretical knowledge he has gained through his education, and finally be able to apply it at Relocare. He expects his knowledge on the youth and social media / digital marketing, can be of value to Relocare.

During the years Esben has grown in Relocare, and have since 2019 been a Relocation Consultant at Relocare and is assisting our clients with all relocation tasks

Frederik Juel Andersen

Frederik Juel Andersen joined Relocare in January in 2015 as one of our cultural relocation consultants on Middle Eastern and Muslim affairs.

He finished his Master’s Degree in Middle East Studies from the University of Southern Denmark in 2014, where he wrote his dissertation on Turkish Foreign Policy.

He completed his Bachelor Degree in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Copenhagen with a special focus on the Islamic period.

Due to previously work in Jordan, Syria and Iraq, which included a relocation of his family, he posses professional knowledge of what relocation entails. Furthermore as part of the Danish Islamic Centre in Copenhagen he has an in-depth knowledge of Muslim society in Denmark.

At Relocare Frederik will besides working as a consultant, also conduct lectures on regional, and specific countries in the Middle East and the Muslim world. He will provide a product by which cooperations and public institutions are able to improve their relations and working possibilities across the Middle East. Furthermore he will assist various companies in establishing a good and profitable relationship with their Muslims employees.

Gabriela R. Cestafe

Gabriela is originally from Mexico. She studied her Master’s Degree in International Business at the Copenhagen Business School. Gabriela has experience from both the private and public sector in Mexico and in Denmark.

She has worked with customer relationship, B2B sales and market research. In addition, she has organized cultural training workshops for the multinational teams she has worked in. Gabriela has also experience within the energy sector, with focus on renewable energies, where she gained valuable business and cultural insights about the diverse layers within public and private Mexican institutions.

Gabriela has a strong inner drive, she is passionate about digging, facilitating and conveying market business information to people in order to help them achieve their goals.

Gabriela is engaged in social entrepreneurial networks that foster sustainability and social innovation in Mexico and Denmark. As a result, she has developed an extensive network across Latin America and Europe.

As part of the Latin American Network, within the Confederation of Danish Industry, she has a solid knowledge of current opportunities and challenges across the region.

At Relocare Gabriela works as a consultant providing the necessary tools that organizations, institutions and teams need in order to improve their relationships with Latin America. Additionally, she will also advise companies in order to achieve successful and profitable business opportunities in the Latin American market.

Hans Erich Simonsen

Hans Erich Simonsen is a Danish National, specialised in expat taxation and global mobility.

A seasoned expat himself having lived and worked as Senior Tax Manager or Director in 12 different countries on four different continents, outside his native Denmark, with working experience from a few more.

Hans Erich has working experience from mainly The Big 4, but do also have experience from in-house positions at large multinationals.

Hans Erich is a qualified Danish accountant (Registreret Revisor)

Jia Li

Jia Li is an Intercultural Consultant and Trainer, specializing in Chinese business culture, working culture and living culture

Jia was born and raised in China and have had 7 years working experience in The China Construction Bank and 11 years working experience as Senior Cost Controller at Nordic Nestle. With more than 18 years of Global experience in the Bank and FMCG industry, she has gained hands-on intercultural experience from daily work with her customers and colleagues. Since 2018 Jia has worked with Relocare and have delivered training and consulting to Danish and international companies like Novo Nordisk, GN-Store Nord, NNIT etc.

During the training, she has combined the use of Hofstede model and intercultural ABC Model to give the clients the insights of national cultural difference and increase awareness of their own cultural perspective and bias.

Through case studies and the questions during the training session, Jia will lead them to recognize and avoid intercultural pitfalls, which support they enable using effective communication and active listening to overcome cultural barriers.

Lene Stolle

Lene Stolle is a senior relocation agent and global mobility coordinator and has been in the relocation industry for +20 years

She started out her career in Paris, France where she worked for one of the leading relocation and mobility companies for 13 years, followed by 8 years with an international move and relocation company in Copenhagen, Denmark.

She has been living in France and London for 25 years with her family before she moved back to Denmark in 2013.

Lene holds a Master’s degree in International Business and Cultural affairs from SIU in Paris and a Bachelor’s degree from the London campus.

She strives to ensure a high level of client satisfaction while looking for ways to improve processes for a maximum of efficiency, based on her previous knowledge from the industry.

Malene Stausholm-Perkins

Malene Stausholm-Perkins is Director of Business Development and joined Relocare in January 2016.

Malene is a real polyglot, speaking five European languages. She lived in France for a total of nearly 20 years where, using her textile and sales background, she successfully founded and ran her own clothing brand. She developed the brand, selling her creations to leading department, bridal and child wear stores across the EU and the US.

Since successfully selling her company, she has split her time between Denmark and Paris, working for leading retailers and advising the Montessori Foundation charity in Paris. In parallel, she completed a Degree in International Business and Marketing.

Malene is passionate about all aspects of business – organization, operations and talent. Her focus is on how Relocare can improve the Danish companies’ ability to attract and retain the best international employees – and, ultimately, improve the bottom line for its clients.

Mariska Völkers

Mariska Völkers is HR Talent Manager .

Mariska joined Relocare as HR Talent Manager and is responsible for the mentor program of the Greater Copenhagen Career Program. Mariska holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management. She started her career working for the Dutch City of Apeldoorn creating a network of companies attracting and retaining talent together.

For this she won the Dutch HR Talent Trophy in 2002.

She pursued her career at the Dutch Ministry of Finance coordinating management development programs. After having worked for many years as HR Specialist, she decided to further build expertise as general HR Manager. She worked for multinationals DSM and AkzoNobel being responsible for plants in both Germany and the Netherlands.

She started the Nordsjælland International Community (NIC) connecting internationals and giving them both a social network and professional network. This is where Mariska met Relocare. Relocare and NIC organized several events together with the aim of retaining talent for Denmark.

Alongside her work as HR Talent Manager, Mariska organizes events and activities for international families staying at the North Zealand International School. Mariska is an enthusiastic, energetic person who has a talent for creating and organizing new (HR) initiatives.
Mariska moved to Denmark in 2015, accompanying her family

Michael Schade Pedersen

Michael has an IT-engineering degree from Copenhagen University College of Engineering (IHK), from 2005-2009 as well as a semester at Tongji university in Shanghai. Michael has worked as a senior developer, product manager and team leader. During his working time he has been involved in many project, technologies and product development such as: Integration between different financial systems, data analysis via Microsoft PowerBI, digitilization via Microsoft Automation, Data retrieval and data modulation, web portals and API development and Mobile development.

Michael joined Relocare in March 2021 as a senior developer and tech lead, and will be involved in implementing Social Security App.

Michael is a family dad to three lovely boys. He enjoys running, cycling and occasionally does hard runs once in a while, but always tends to find out that he should have trained more.

Nina Malherbe Himmer

Nina is working as a Relocating Agent and has joined Relocare in February 2021. Nina has a BSc from CBS in Copenhagen and comes from an Event and Marketing background. She has worked in London for several years organizing Oil and Gas exhibitions in Russia and Kazakhstan. Since 2000 she has lived as an expat due to her husband’s work, mainly in Russia for 4 postings, but also in Germany, Croatia, Latvia and Ireland, and has organized numerous moves with a family of five.

While traveling Nina assisted her family business, Quickwood, with management, keeping patents and trademarks updated and sales at exhibitions worldwide.

Nina is an open, positive person and loves to help others.

Her international experience and first-hand knowledge of expat life gives her a good cultural understanding and background to help Relocare’s clients.

Tianyang Liu

Tianyang works as a relocation agent in Relocare Sweden AB, based in Stockholm. At the same time, she will contribute with marketing for Relocare Group. She has a passion for both people and data.

She has many years of experience working as a project manager in the 3D Computer Generated Imagery and the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions sector in many different countries.

Due to her past job posts, she has been relocated from China to Singapore, South Africa, UK and Sweden. As an expat in many countries, she has first-hand experience to know expats’ difficulties, needs, concerns in many ways, and knows how to tackle their challenges before they become problems.

She enjoys working with people in a multicultural environment.

Her educational background is broad. She is an authorized tourist guide both in South Africa and Sweden. She holds an advanced vocational degree in Destination Management as well as Marketing Automation. She also has a bachelor’s degree in Financial Accounting.

In her spare time, she enjoys outdoor activities with her dog, she loves hiking on buildings’ rooftops from her past as a rooftop tour guide in Stockholm.

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