Jan Steenhard leaves Falck

25-Jun. 2008

Jan Steenhard, Senior Vice President, New Ventures, has decided to stop his career with Falck effective 1 July to realise his dreams of working as an entrepreneur.

“I am very enthusiastic about becoming an entrepreneur. I find it very exciting to help identify and create new business opportunities for small and medium-sized companies and to develop them. The opportunity to work on a wider range of projects than those relating to Falck is just too tempting,” said Steenhard, who over the years has participated in starting up projects ranging all the way from production of Italian ice cream to the Copenhagen city bikes.

He looks back on his time with Falck with great pleasure and pride.

“I am leaving Falck with mixed feelings. It’s been a great pleasure to work for the company and I have met many good people and found very good and very different challenges in the organisation. The reason I have been so long with Falck is that I consider Falck to be a very innovative and vigorous company”, said Steenhard.

Jan Steenhard has been with Falck for seven years. During his career with Falck, he has been director of Falck Healthcare – a company he co-founded under the name of Willis Healthcare and which was sold to Falck in 2001, after which the name of the company was changed to Falck Healthcare. In addition, Steenhard has been divisional director of the Assistance business. In February 2008, Jan Steenhard was appointed divisional director of New Ventures, a position designed specifically to him in close collaboration with Falck’s CEO, Allan Søgaard Larsen, in order to use Steenhard’s unique entrepreneurial qualities. Originally, Jan Steenhard had contemplated striking camp already last winter, but he was tempted by the opportunity to identify and launch new projects within the Falck Group.

Falck’s  CEO, Allan Søgaard Larsen, is sorry about Steenhard’s decision, but thanks him for his work for Falck.

“I had hoped that we could have kept Jan and his good qualities with Falck for longer, but his longing for new challenges was too great, and we must accept his decision. We are also pleased to note that Falck is the company able to keep him the longest. We are all very thankful for everything Jan has contributed to Falck during his years with us, and I wish him good luck in his future career,” said Søgaard Larsen.

Jan Steenhard will complete his projects with Falck and will continue as a consultant for the company, initially for a period of at least two years.