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Executive Committee

The role of the Executive Committee is to drive the Group’s strategic development and ensure alignment and clear objectives across the Group.

Jacob Aarup-Andersen

Jacob Aarup-Andersen

CEO since 2023.

Prior to joining Carlsberg, Jacob served as CEO of ISS, a global leader in facility management with 360,000 employees operating in 60 countries globally. Prior to ISS, Jacob had executive leadership roles at Danske Bank and Danica Pension. Before that, Jacob worked as an investment professional and banker in firms such as TPG-Axon Capital and Goldman Sachs. Jacob is member of the Board of Directors of SEB Group.

 

Ulrica Fearn

Ulrica Fearn

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since 2023

Ulrica joined the Carlsberg Group on 1 January 2023. Before joining Carlsberg, Ulrica was CFO of Equinor, Norway. Prior to Equinor, she was Director, Group Finance at BT Group. She began her career at Diageo, where she spent almost 20 years in various senior finance and other management roles across Europe, APAC and the USA. Ulrica is member of the Board of Directors of Capgemini.

Søren Brinck

Søren Brinck

Executive Vice President, Group Commercial and Strategy since 2021.

Søren joined Carlsberg’s commercial team in 2005. During his career at Carlsberg, he has held various management positions at Group, regional and market level. From 2009 to 2019, he was managing director in Denmark, Norway and Greece, while most recently, he was Sr. Vice President Asia.

Graham Fewkes

Graham Fewkes

Executive Vice President, Western Europe since 2021.

Graham was EVP Asia from 2016 to 2021. He joined Carlsberg in connection with the S&N acquisition in 2008 and has strong experience in the global drinks business on the back of a wide range of sales and marketing roles since 1991 for Grand Metropolitan plc, Foster's Brewing Group and S&N plc across Western and Eastern Europe.

Lars Lehmann

Lars Lehmann

Executive Vice President, Central & Eastern Europe since 2019.

Lars joined Carlsberg in 2003 and has held various leading positions within the Group, including Managing Director of Baltika Breweries in Russia, Managing Director of Carlsberg Malaysia, Vice President Commercial for Eastern Europe and head of the Export, License & Duty Free division. 

João Abecasis

João Abecasis

Executive Vice President, Asia since 2022.

João joined the Carlsberg Group in 2011 as CCO and later CEO of Super Bock, our associate in Portugal. In 2016, he became Vice President for smaller markets in the Western Europe region. He also served as interim Managing Director of Carlsberg Danmark. In 2017, he became Managing Director of our French business, Kronenbourg. He became CCO and member of ExCom in 2019. Earlier in his career, João held a range of sales and marketing roles at Unilever.

Victor Shevtsov

Victor Shevtsov

Executive Vice President, Supply Chain since 2021.

Victor joined Carlsberg from PepsiCo in 2015 as Vice President for our supply chain in Asia. Victor’s solid end-to-end supply chain expertise  has been accrued through various supply chain roles, including several operative and strategy roles within supply chain across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa during his 20 years with PepsiCo. Prior to PepsiCo, Victor worked for Siemens.