Management Team
Lone Henriksen (1970)
CEO, CSO, and founder
Lone Henriksen holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and a B.Sc. in Business and Strategic Marketing. She has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Lone has valuable experience with: sourcing and securing GMP & GDP in the value chain; R&D in ingredients, health food, cosmetics & pharmaceuticals; as well as stakeholder- and project management and logistics.
Gitte Henriksen (1967)
CFO, CIO and founder
Gitte Henriksen holds an M.Sc. in Business Administration & Finance. Gitte has experience as an auditor from KPMG with more than 20 years of experience in business development within “Big 4” companies. She is a chairman of a board at Orange, Denmark. In addition, Gitte has valuable experience in strategy development, implementation, and execution, as well as project management, marketing, human resources, system and process design and optimization in international projects.
Heidi Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (1973)
COO & CMO
Heidi Ahlefeldt-Laurvig holds an MBA from Henley Business School. She is today an external examiner (censor) at CBS and other DK Universities, a Jury Board member at the Ecommerce Awards with the Danish Chamber of Commerce, and chairman at Økonomisk Ugebrev. Heidi has experience delivering growth, transformations, internationalization, branding, and digitalization. Over the last 20 years, she has successfully worked with different industries and reframed business models and strategies to grow brands and companies. Heidi worked in larger companies like L’Oreal, P&G, Cloetta, Coop, Dagrofa, and in smaller family-owned companies as when she transformed the company Life Extension Europe from a basic webshop into a pan-European e-commerce company with approx. +50 MDKK additional revenue in 5,5 years.
Mikkel Raahauge Nielsen (1985)
CCO
Mikkel Raahauge Nielsen holds an M.Sc. in International Business. Mikkel has 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in various positions. The focus has been on sales and strategy since 2014 and the latest position included the commercial responsibility for 900+ pharmaceuticals in Scandinavia. The main drivers for Mikkel, in the current position, is to create long-lasting partnerships that build on trust, mutual understanding for strategic positioning of the Cannasen portfolio and product awareness by end consumers. “The goal is to bring our fantastic portfolio to as many patients as possible, through our great network of experienced partners”.
Suzan Al-shuweli (1984)
CQO & PRRC
Suzan Al-shuweli holds an M.Sc. in Biotechnology engineering and a B.Sc. in chemical and biotechnological engineering. Suzan brings valuable expertise in Quality and Regulatory Affairs for medical devices, as well as Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for medicinal products.
In her current position, Suzan is dedicated to ensuring that processes and products follow the legislation and meet strict standards set by authorities. She focuses on maintaining top-quality results by complying with relevant standards and regulations.
Kamlesh Vora
MD CANNORDIC INDIA Ltd
Master in Organic Chemistry. Has 25 years of Sales and Business Development experience in Indian and Asia Pacific Pharma market. Business Management in India & Asia Pacific for Pharma, Animal Nutrion & Health , Food and Agro. Factory Audits for developing sustainable sourcing from Asia to ROW, for API’s & Ingredients.
