Ciklum's management team has revolutionized IT outsourcing by blending their individual strengths and expertise in IT, human resources, administrative specialities and Eastern European business to create transparent and unique partnerships between clients, IT teams and employees.

Torben Majgaard, Founder and CEO

As founder and chief executive officer, Torben Majgaard has built Ciklum into one of the largest IT companies in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He brings 11 years of experience working in Eastern Europe and 20 years of IT expertise to quickly build a 700-person company in this changing market. Majgaard is also the founder and majority shareholder of Touchlink Mobile, a Danish developer of application solutions for the mobile content market. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of Vic, a hardware distributor to Eastern Europe, and Den Bla Butik, a Danish retail network for hardware sales. He is a frequent speaker in various IT related summits and conferences throughout different countries, including the Nordic IT Forum and the Central and Eastern European IT Outsourcing Summit.

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Klaus Parmo Jensen, CFO

Klaus Parmo Jensen brings almost 20 years of financial and managerial experience to Ciklum as the company's new chief financial officer. His background includes expertise with economic issues in production, trade and service companies. Jensen previously served as financial director of Arla Foods Poland, a subsidiary of Arla Amba, one of Europe's largest dairy companies. There, he built the company's finance department, while also overseeing IT and HR functions. Prior to that, Jensen was financial manager at Servisair Danmark A/S, a subsidiary of Servisair UK Ltd, an international aviation company. He has also served as chief financial officer of Veng International AS and worked as a registered auditor in several firms. He holds a degree in accounting from Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College.

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Henrik Bak, VP Sales

Henrik Bak brings 18 years of strong results in sales, as well as 10 years in international business development of new concepts and markets for IT companies. Before Ciklum, he was regional director Central Europe of Agillic Ltd., a developer and marketer of enterprise marketing management software and consultancy services. At Agillic, Bak helped the company utilize venture capital investments to expand into new markets in Central Europe. Prior to that, as European general manager at Ascio/Speednames Inc., he built and successfully executed the go to market strategy for the company. He also previously held sales manager positions for several companies where he built up business and markets in Europe. Bak completed a full-time study for business professionals at the Danish Export Institute and studied for a higher diploma at Midtjysk Handelshøjskole, Denmark.

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Vladimir Liulka, CIO

As CIO of Ciklum, Vladimir Liulka is responsible for analyzing and reworking existing business processes within the IT department and extending its role, including the introduction of new services, reshaping and managing the IT support group and managing the automation of Ciklum's internal and external business processes. Joining Ciklum in October 2009, Liulka brings not just more than 8 of years of experience in IT industry to Ciklum, but also his entrepreneurial spirit. Liulka is an example of a loyal and dedicated manager who has already been a CIO of Ciklum during 2005 – 2008, achieving high efficiency in his department, but leaving the company to start his own ventures. During the last years he has successfully started three companies, namely DuoLogic, STM Networks and Supportio, all operating within the development and support of the IT industry. While remaining the co-owner of the last two mentioned, Liulka strongly believes in Ciklum's concept and is set to bring further innovations to the company. He holds a bachelor's degree in Cybernetics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

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Karen-Marie Kragelund, Administrative Director

Karen-Marie Kragelund serves as Ciklum's administrative director, with primary responsibility for office administration, space planning and negotiations. She has thirteen years of international business experience, most recently in the IT outsourcing industry in the Ukraine where she has also served as a project coordinator and on-site general manager. Kragelund's background includes five years as a state-certified Russian translator for a law firm in Denmark. She holds a bachelor's degree in English/Russian from Copenhagen Business School and a master's degree in Russian, as well as a paralegal degree. Kragelund served as president of the Danish association for master's degrees for four years.

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Marina Vyshegorodskikh, HR Director

Marina Vyshegorodskikh has built a strong team of human resource professionals in Ciklum which is delivering results and sharing and promoting the company's values and goals. Her responsibilities as HR director include HR management, recruitment, retention and motivation, conflict and problem resolution and HR consultancy. Since joining Ciklum, she has helped grow the number of billable employees more than five times from 90 to more than 500. Before joining Ciklum, Vyshegorodskikh was partners manager at Kiev, Ukraine-based Documentum Services CIS, an enterprise content management systems development company. She also has served as HR manager at Terralink in Moscow, overseeing HR for the Canadian company that specializes in IT system integration and EDMS implementation. Vyshegorodskikh has diplomas in mathematics and psychology from Voronezh State University in Russia, as well as a master's degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the U.S.

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Christian Aaen, Director, Services and Consulting

Christian Aaen brings ten years of solid experience in business analytics and project management. As the Director of Services and Consulting department, Aaen is responsible for the development and promotion of value-added services as well as management and quality assurance of the company's services delivery. Before joining Ciklum, he worked as Client Service Director at Agillic, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of marketing automation solutions on the UK market. Prior to that, Aaen was responsible for establishing Agillic's offshore development centre in Ukraine. His strong analytical skills were acquired by working as project manager at Wunderman Denmark and investment analyst at Siemens Venture Capital in Germany. During his career Aaen has worked with clients such as TDC, Telia, Telenor, Hi3G, DSB and Ministry of Sound. Aaen holds a degree in Export Engineering from Engineering College of Copenhagen and advanced course diplomas in E-Business and Innovation from the IT University of Copenhagen.

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Ciklum Management Team