Micro & Macro Approach Sdn Bhd
 

JOHN MADSEN R, R1 - Danish Citizen

1967 – 1969

Apprentice with East Asiatic Company Limited (EAC) in Copenhagen, Denmark


1969 – 1972

Manager, Carlsberg Beer Division of EAC Hong Kong


1972 – 1975

Divisional Manager of Consumer Products Division, EAC Hong Kong


1975 – 1980

General Manager for EAC Trading, and Project Manager for the Carlsberg Brewery, Hong Kong


1980 – 1981

President Director for Dumex Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Marketing Company, Indonesia - Partly EAC owned group


1981 – 1987

Chief Executive for Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia Berhad - Partly owned (EAC) Company


1987 – 1996

Chief Executive for East Asiatic Company (Malaysia) Berhad


1990 –1996

Simultaneously Chief Executive for EAC Global Marketing Services Core Business


1996 – 2002

Chief Executive for Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad (formerly known as The East Asiatic Company Malaysia Berhad)


1999 – 2002

Simultaneously CEO Malaysia Mosaic Berhad (Holding Company of Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad)


2002 – 2005

Group CEO of the Interflour Group of Companies (Flourmills in Asia)


May 2005

Founded the Holding Company Micro & Macro Approach - with the Business Objectives as per website www.mma.com.my


2006

MMA acquired a 50% shareholding respectively in

  • Asian Business Solutions

  • ABS Multimedia

with Business Objectives as per website www.abs-mal.com.my


Since 2006

Advisor to the Danish Government Investment Fund – “IFU” – The Industrialization Fund for developing countries.

 


Board Memberships  

1987 – 2000

Chairman of Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia


1987 – 2002

Chairman of the River Estates (Oil Palm Plantation Group consisting of twenty one plantations)


Since 1990

Member of the Board of United International Enterprises (Holding company of United Plantations Malaysia, Aarhus Karlshamm, and other companies within the agro-industrial sector)

Since 2005

Since 2006

Since 2006

Since 2006

Director – Micro & Macro Approach

Director – Asian Business Solutions

Director – ABS Multimedia

Director Emunio Manufacturing Company.

 


Educational Background  
1967 Commerce and Economics Degree – Danish Business School

1975

Management Degree in Economics, Business Administration and General Management – International Corresponding School, London


1983

Executive Management Program – Stanford University, California, USA

 

Honorary Appointments  

1981 – 1985

President Dansk Samvirke (The Danish Society)

Since 1987

Danish Honorary Consul

Since 1989

Member of Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM)

Court of Fellows (The Board)

Since 1992

Malaysian Danish Business Council (MDBC) Board Member

Since 1997

Ambassador for the Town Skagen in Denmark

Since 2004

Member of the Women Institute of Management (WIM) Accreditation Board



Awards  

1995

Granted Permanent Residentship in Malaysia


1996

Conferred the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Dannebrog by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark


1997

Malaysian CEO of the Year 1997


2005

Conferred the Knight’s Cross, First Degree, of the Order of Dannebrog by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

 


Publications  

1989

Managing in a Plural Society

(Published by Longmann Publishers)


1991

Corporate Culture Booklet

1997

The 12 Working Principles Booklet

2005

The Streetwise Marketer – The Marketing Leadership Approaches They Don’t Teach at Business Schools
(Published by the Malaysian Institute of Management)

2007

The Holistic Approach for
- Closing the Business and Cultural Gaps -

Corporate Social Responsibilities

Since 2002

Honorary Adviser and Contributor to the Borneo Child Aid Programme, under which during the year 2007 not less than 5,700 underprivileged children in 72 Learning Centers receive free relevant education, which adequately prepare them for independent adulthood.

For further details please visit www.borneochildaid.org