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 Scharvik

Bodil Scharvik is originally from Sweden, but have lived in Denmark most of her life. She studied her Bachelor’s degree in International Business at Copenhagen Business School and finished her Master’s degree in Communication at Roskilde University where she wrote her dissertation on the implementation of CSR in Danish and Vietnamese business partnerships.

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.

She is involved in the international expat environment in Copenhagen, where she also maintains an understanding of the expat challenges in Denmark.

At Relocare, Bodil works as a cultural training consultant, providing the right tools for preparing you for doing business in Vietnam.

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.

Elisabetta Cerigioni

Coming from Italy and being a linguist and an anthropologist Elisabetta Cerigioni has the tools and experience to hold cultural training for both management and assignees working with – and relocating to Italy.

Elisabetta is graduated at the University of Siena, and has a Master in Art and Culture Management.

She offers open courses in Italian culture. Her wide experience as a teacher and a cultural mediator enables her to tailor and combine with ease Italian cultural training for teams working cross borders with Danish cultural training, or with many other cultures.

She can provide you with a deep understanding of the small and medium-sized family-owned enterprises (SMEs); and then analyze some of the largest corporations that are still controlled by single families (Ferrero or Benetton, for example), in order to prepare you for export and to target your future Italian market.

Depending on the specific clients’ needs, Elisabetta and her colleagues can also help with taxation, regulatory and legal requirements to open a business in Italy and to relocate to Italy, where the bureaucratic language presents an high level of complexity.

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.

Michael Dennis Pedersen

Michael Dennis Pedersen is the Global Mobility Legal Advisor in Relocare.

Michael received his Master’s Degree at Law from the University of Copenhagen in January 1995 and has since then been employed as legal adviser in the Ministry of Interior, the Danish Emergency Management Agency, and as Deputy Head of Division in the Ministry of Defense, Head of the Administration of Conscientious Objectors under the Ministry of Defense and as Head of Division in the Regional State Administration for Southern Denmark. In 2013, Michael was employed as a trainee Attorney in a private law firm and appointed as Attorney at Law by the Ministry of Justice on April 1, 2014.

He has extensive experience with driving and negotiating complex legal projects across cultures and international cooperation from eight postings with EU, UN, OSCE and DANIDA in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Liberia, Israel and Cyprus, among them Human Rights and Rule of Law Adviser, EUSR, Kabul, Afghanistan; Stabilization Adviser, Helmand, Afghanistan, and Legal Adviser, International Judicial Support Division, UNMIK, Kosovo as well as Judicial Planner, Department of Police and Justice, OSCE, Skopje, FYR of Macedonia, to mention some.

During Michael´s employment in the Ministry of Interior, he was a member of the Danish Refugee Appeals Board for two years and a teacher of Public Administrative Law at the University of Copenhagen for three years.

Michael works with the compliance part of global mobility, balancing the many legal issues across the multidisciplinary areas, such as immigration law, tax law, national registrations, employment law, rental law, insurance and pension, moving of personal goods and, in particular, a need to assist with the increasing demand for social security assistance and EURES transfer rights to be handled for expats and business travelers. Michael also assists with relocation in both Sweden and Denmark, as well as assists with cross boarder commuters between Germany and Denmark and between Sweden and Denmark.

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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