Find, invest in and grow great companies run by good people.
I have allocated institutional capital for a EUR 100bn AuM pension fund, chaired a listed fintech bank, held a senior Strategy & Partnering (M&A) position in a Global Fortune 500 company, invested in startups and founded a company of my own.
I write books who I believe can be read in twenty years.
Frederik
Investor, Finance Executive, Strategist, Author & Board Member
Marcus Aurelius
“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
Key figures
4 years
On the board of Multitude SE, a Frankfurt-listed fintech bank: Audit Committee Chair, then Chair of the Board.
Venture Capitalist
Founder of 21 celsius ventures and angel investing. Invested in Tech companies across Europe. Advised family offices on Venture Investments in MedTech, BioTech & DeepTech.
EUR 200m+
Client assets in the sustainable investment platform I built from a blank page inside a top-10 EU pension fund. EUR 150m in the first twelve months.
EUR 15bn
The division of a global Fortune 500 life sciences company where I held a senior Strategy & Partnering (M&A) position.
Author of 3 books
Two published in Danish. A third, written in English with my father, is complete (will be published in 2027).
Who I am
Investor & capital allocator, chairman, founder, author, soldier.
One through-line.
Five years in the Danish Military Police, including a deployment to Iraq, taught me to lead by example and to be honest because the consequences are real.
Then management consulting with projects in Denmark, UK, US and Switzerland. I then joined a top-10 EU pension fund with EUR 100bn under management, where I advised the Group CEO, advised the deal team for EUR 1.5bn+ of institutional investments and built a sustainable investment platform from a blank page to EUR 150m in twelve months.
Four years on the board of Multitude SE, a listed FinTech bank with an EU banking licence: Audit Committee Chair, then Chair of the Board through the group's conversion, a EUR 50m capital-notes issue and the return to profit.
A senior Strategy & Partnering (M&A) position in a global Fortune 500 life sciences company.
Then my own: Co-founder and Chair of the Board of Cherituelle AG, board seats at C Wire AG and 21Celsius Ventures AG (VC investments), and SPL, through which I advise boards, founders and family offices.
Danish, live in the heart of Europe in Switzerland with my wife and daughter. Executive MBA from IMD, CEMS Master from St. Gallen/CBS and a MSc. from Copenhagen Business School. Danish and English, conversational German and French. Marathon des Sables, Yukon Arctic Ultra, Norseman and the Jungfrau Marathon, for the humility.
What I am good at
Capital and governance
Allocating institutional capital and governing it afterwards. Audit, risk and capital-markets oversight from a listed, bank-licensed group. Allocation discipline and an obsession with the downside: rule number one is don't lose money.
Executive mandates
Interim or permanent, in private investments, capital formation, strategy and transformation. '
Executive CV and board biography on request.
Strategy, partnering and transactions
Investment cases that survive an investment committee. 20+ VC investment, licensing and partnering opportunities.
A EUR 30m growth-equity process structured and presented. A Swiss debt-to-equity restructuring and a convertible raise.
Capital & valuation advisory
Value creation plans, growth-equity and convertible processes, investor materials, and Danish-Swiss cross-border structuring.
Thinking partner to family offices
Ballast against the two illusions that sink most investors: beating the market and taming one's emotions.
Synthesis
I read a company whole: the system, how it behaves and where the improvement is. Then I compress it into something clear enough to act on, in a board paper, a memo or a book. People come in with something tangled and leave knowing the move.
Board and committee seats
Audit, risk and remuneration; independent challenge grounded in operating experience. Switzerland, Denmark and the EU.
How I Think
Repair. Ask. Replace.
When something breaks, there are three responses worth knowing. Most people default to one and never see the other two. The discipline is knowing which one is in front of you.
Hats, haircuts, tattoos.
Most decisions present as tattoos and are actually hats. The cost of treating a hat as a tattoo is paralysis. The cost of treating a tattoo as a hat is regret.
Strong opinions, weakly held.
State the view clearly, then ask what would change your mind. Decide as late as responsibly possible, and judge the decision on the information you had, not on how the dice fell.