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 including Danish cultural training.

Your teams will benefit from this awareness, resulting in more effective communication and higher appreciation of the manifold cultures.

Bodil Lundberg

Bodil Lundberg is originally from Sweden, but have lived in Denmark most of her life. Bodil has been working as a Freelance Relocation Agent for 2 1/2 years at Relocare before joining Relocare as a full time Employee in 2018. She has a solid international business background within the financial sector and has experience from working with Risk Management and Compliance from companies such as Citibank, Deloitte and BNP Paribas.

Living in Hanoi for two years, she has experienced the expatriate life and has hands-on experience with relocating to another country and the challenges that can occur, when living and working in a different cultural setting than your own. Besides Vietnam, she has lived in Singapore, Italy, Sweden and Norway.

At Relocare, Bodil works as a Relocation Coordinator and Culture Specialist and works with coordination of tasks within global mobility, relocation, international tax, performance and culture training along with the team.

She is also working as a cultural consultant, specializing in Swedish and Nordic Cultural training.

Esben Porse

Esben Hans Lim Porse is a 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 an AP Degree in Marketing Management from Copenhagen Business Academy and is currently in his final semester of his bachelor’s in International Sales and Marketing Management at Zealand Institute of Business and Technology. He recently returned from a study-abroad semester at San Diego State University, where he studied various business courses in relation to his current education.

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.

He will also be tasked with assisting Relocare’s Director of Business Development, Malene Stausholm-Perkins with customer and client engagement as well as events.

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.

Gitte Svarrer

Gitte Svarrer is Danish but has lived over half of her adult life abroad. Gitte has together with her husband and 2 daughters been an expat for 18 years, as an employee, spouse and business owner in USA, Thailand, Tunisia, Vietnam and Singapore. This has led to her knowing the requirements of moving a family to a new country. Gitte has since 2010 been actively involved – socially and academically – in the international schools, both as an expat as well as after her return to Denmark.

Gitte’s education as master coach have given her many tools. This involved giving people personal leadership and to set a course for their lives. Gitte speaks English, French, German as well as Thai and is a competent communicator.

Gitte’s coworkers describe her as a person who can connect with everyone she meets, is smiling, energetic, open, empathetic, authentic and has very high standards – Gitte always strives for the best. Gitte’s vision is to have “courage to enjoy the present”, with whatever she is currently occupied with.

Gitte’s experience ranges from employment in marketing and sales in large international companies, such as Royal Copenhagen and ECCO to working with non-profit organizations. Gitte has in her past carrier also had 3 upstart companies, specializing in home accessories and has successfully sold them to large retail companies in several countries. She is an international entrepreneur by heart and loves to start-up and develop businesses, where people are the focus.

Gitte has from the 1st of June joined Relocare as Relocation agent & coordinator and is looking forward to guiding and supporting expats and families to get a solid and safe foundation from the start of their stay in Denmark, to make it the adventure they are dreaming of

Hans Holmegaard Lemming

Hans holds a Master of Laws and has more than 25 years’ experience with international taxation and compliance.

Hans has throughout his career worked with assignments such as advice to expats, business travelers and their families. This work includes guidance on compliance requirements, applications and tax returns.

He has also dealt with drafting of business politics and procedures for handling and mitigation of risks.

Hans has with pleasure worked for 15 years as a consultant within the big four auditing companies and 10 years as an internal expert within a large Danish multinational company.

Here he ensured legal, tax correct and sustainable solutions with a clear focus on transparency for the involved and securing overview of the consequences and options.

Hans will assist within a broad range of Relocare’s offerings and together with the rest of the team secure quality of the services delivered to individuals and companies.

Kirstina Maria Rudnicki

Kirstina Maria Rudnicki academic background includes a master’s in international strategy & marketing. She has more than 10 years international experience within the IT-sector, primarily from companies such as IBM and Siemens.

She has worked with big complex it-projects within sales, marketing and management consulting, primarily focused on SAP and CRM-systems. Kirstina will use her professional and international it-background to secure the quality of it-projects at Relocare.

Kirstina has lived and worked overseas in more than 15 years in countries such as Croatia, Singapore, Germany, USA, Czech Republic and South Africa. To work at international companies and to experience the expat life has given her the professional knowledge about the business aspect as well as a deep cultural understanding, especially for cultures in America, central Europe and Africa. This gives her the best background for consulting and helping Relocare’s clients regarding global relocation.

Kirstina joined Relocare in 2017, where she originally worked as a global relocation consultant. She currently works as a project coordinator for the Social Security App Relocare is developing.

Lars Blumensaadt

The voice of Relocare

Lars Blumensaadt is based in Denmark but answers the phone from all over the world.

Lars Blumensaadt has a broad experience from years working in several different business sectors, and has many years of experience in networking, sales and marketing.

Lars Blumensaadt has extensive international experience from working in some of the largest companies within sales and B2B relationships.

When you call Relocare, it is Lars Blumensaadt who answers the phone and assists you with information and connects you to the right person.

Lars Blumensaadt is a really helpful and pleasant person, whom we are delighted to have in the team of Relocare.

Ole Brix Andersen

Relocation with the largest possible expertise and care

Ole Brix Andersen is based in Denmark.

Ole Brix Andersen is a man of many competencies and talents.

He received a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen in 1973. He has since then, and until 2012 been employed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when he retired at the rank of Head of Department.

At the Ministry he has held positions relation to HR, NATO, Development Assistance to Tanzania, Development Cooperation with the UN Organizations, the Schengen Cooperation He has been posted to the Danish Embassies in Poland, Saudi Arabia (covering the whole of the Arabian Peninsula) and China. He has been a teacher of international and EEC law at the University of Copenhagen. He has studied at NATO Defense College in Rome. He was Deputy Commander of the European Community Monitor Mission (ECMM) during the war in the former Yugoslavia in 1992/93.

Ole Brix Andersen is equipped with a mass of knowledge and personal experience that greatly benefits all those he advises and supports at Relocare within both cultural training as well as relocation.

Ole Brix Andersen is head of Relocare’s immigration section for Denmark as well as head of the immigration department for global mobility management. Ole Brix Andersen is as well responsible for all legal matters related to housing and rental contracts.

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.

Morten Petersen

Morten Petersen is Director for Relocare Taxation International ApS.

Morten has been a certified Tax Auditor since 2000, which means that he has a very deep and solid understanding of the Danish tax system both from a legal and a numerical point of view.

Morten has many years of business, management and consultancy experience from working as a trusted advisor for global companies such as Mærsk, Mercedes, Panasonic, Novo Nordisk, Shell and IBM. Furthermore, he has been involved in consultancy and education of SKAT, various Danish ministries and several municipalities. He has a combined 20+ years of experience working with international tax issues as well as working with international colleagues, employees and trainees.

Morten offers a variety of tax services and -advise towards companies and employees involved in or dealing with relocation / expatriation and always try to approach any challenge with a stint of humor and puts an honor in providing the highest quality services.

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