As a former motorsport athlete turned founder, operator and investor, my career has been defined by a love for working with brilliant minds.

On LinkedIn, I usually share unfiltered thoughts on startups and investments - and what it actually takes to build. No fluff. No BS. Just straight talk from someone who's been on both sides of the table and seen the good and the bad.

I'm heading up different companies:

📈 Paaske & Co | My consulting firm specialized in building thought leadership within tech and investment. I work with executives, entrepreneurs, family offices, VCs and PE firms to build unique storytellings and execute organic content-led growth strategies that drives business results - backed by deep vertical knowledge.

🚀 Abeam | A curated global community for unicorn founders, top-investors and leading executives. We are removing the noise and facilitating real-life peer-to-peer connection for those at the top of their game. (Download the Abeam in App Store to apply for membership).

Maiken Paaske

First Sweden tried it. Then abolished it because the losses were bigger than the gains. Then Norway tried it and lost more than it gained. And now Denmark is about to try it too. The wealth tax 💸 

In 2022, Norway raised its wealth tax expecting DKK ~1 billion in extra revenue. The actual result? They lost DKK ~4 billion. Over 300 wealthy founders and investors left the country, taking capital, jobs, and future investment with them.

Sweden's story is older but identical. By the time they abolished their wealth tax in 2007, Swedish offshore assets had passed SEK 500 billion. IKEA's Kamprad left. Tetra Pak's Rausing left. H&M's ownership restructured to survive it. When they finally scrapped the tax, total revenue increased by SEK 260 billion over the following decade.

The historic economic learnings are SO clear. We have two case studies right next to us. Both say the same thing.

What makes Denmark's politicians think the math will be any different here? 🤔 

We’re literally implementing a competitive handicap for our business owners, backed by law.

Founder @ Abeam - The home for outliers | Former VC partner | Board member

Problem Manager og del af Situtation Manager vagtrotationen i ATPs Situation Management & ITIL sektion.

Problem Manager

Newsec

Recognised for my performance during the external GDRP and IT audit for '21, which also included:
- Updating IT process documentation 
- Deliver sample documentation
- Audit interviews
- Managing uploaded material
- Producing todo list for improvements prior to '22 audit

Problem Manager role for PAM DK IT services:
- Successfully spearheaded implementation of optimal solutions for printing services, patching process and resolving on-boarding issues caused by wrong permission setup.

Process author and owner:
- Incident Management
- Access Management
- Process anchoring through department training.

Project participant for ServiceNow implementation:
- Mapping pain points
- Resolved process failure that affected employee onboarding and ensured new-hire effectiveness from day 1.
- End-to-end procedure testing

IT Service Delivery Manager

- Successfully implemented priorities to ensure focus on HR process deliveries such as on- and off boarding. This also lowers stress as team is aware of which tasks can wait.
- Added two customer-praised, high performing team members to the IT support team.
- Solved a recurring issue with tickets being left in the backlog by implementing a dispatcher role. This has the added benefit of increasing the skills of each team member as we rotate the role.
- Successfully implemented a status page that is adopted by the team and business alike.
- Streamlined peripheral equipment offering in the service catalogue to provide fair and financially viable solutions that will scale.

Teamleder

Nets Group

March 2019 got promoted from Incident Manager to heading a small department with two individual contributors, with focus on Incident Information and Service Level Agreement reports. Team successful in migrating processes to Power BI and automated report creation.
September 2019 department headcount grew to 7 and responsbile areas included ServiceNow ownership and development, ServiceNow Datamodel (CMDB) implementation project, Request fulfilment, ITSM reporting in PowerBI and software tool management.

Led team through two organisational changes, headquarter move and several changes in management.

Completed Nets' Leadership Transition Programme developed in cooperation with the Leadership Pipeline Institute from September to November 2019.

Head of Customer Information Management

Nets' Technology branch applied ITIL processes to every department. I was part of IT Operations and through incidents I was involved in the entire value chain.

Key reponsibilities and tasks:
- Accountable for IT incidents, ensuring end-to-end ownership and accountability throughout the life-cycle of the incident.
- Managing Incident communication to ensure customers and internal stakeholders are kept up to date with relevant information.
- Responsible for ensuring all incidents containing current and correct data quality within the Service Management Tool .
- Close collaboration with technical resolver teams and Problem management.
- Responsible for driving and coordinating task force meetings and post incident reviews.
- 24 /7/365 shift rotation in order to support Nets Operations.

Incident Manager

Welltec

Team manager- responsible for 3 people.

Primary areas of responsibility:
IT Helpdesk
- Incident Management
- Service request handling
- Problem reporting
- Proces development
- SLA reporting

Access rights management
- User Administration
- Proces development

Asset Management
- Hardware registration
- Supplier negotiation
- Equipment evaluation
- Scrapped device handling
- Data deletion through 3rd party supplier
- Proces development

Telephony
- System Administration (Cisco Jabber, Totalview3, Telia Mobile)
- Supplier negotiation

Printers
- Service coordination
- Administration
- Proces for consumables

Meeting Rooms
- Facilities planning
- Supplier coordination
- Facility support

Technical support and administration:
- Windows and Office troubleshooting
- Active Directory
- Exchang 2010
- Windows Server 2008/2012
- Sharepoint 2010
- Ax 2012
- Navision 5.0
- CRM 2011
- Remote Desktop Services
- SCCM
- Comarchive

Other areas include:
Training supporters
- Knowledgebase articles
- Service training

Weekly reporting to the IT Director

Ad-Hoc tasks:
- Coffee machine video branding
- Coordinating Electricians

Support Manager

Extended IT work with focus on user management in a Microsoft environment using the following systems:
Office 2007, 2010 and 2013
Active Directory
Exchange 2010
Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012
Windows xp, 7, 8
Sharepoint 2007 and 2010
Dyanmics Navision 5.0
CRM 2011

TotalView 3
Tandberg Movi
ManageEngine ServiceDesk +
LiquidFiles
Cisco AnyConnect
Cisco Jabber

Any kind of user support and trouble shooting (printers, smartphones, laptops, desktops...even coffee machines).

Training non-IT employees in Welltec's academy and create training material.

Internal IT knowledge base construction
IT Process Documentation
Optimizing internal IT processes
Vendor negotiation

IT Support

Lemvigh Müller A/S

The main part of my job consisted of Technical support in telecommunications products: 
Avaya IP Office (SMB)
Funkwerk's Elmeg PBX
Polycom Kirk DECT + conference telephones
Teles GSM gateways + Voip BOXs
Voxtream's Forte.
GN Netcom's Jabra Office products

The secondary part was sales tasks where I familiarized myself with SAP through daily use.
I had customer contact on a daily basis about orders and offers where I had to weigh profits and expenditures.
When customer contact demanded decisions about refunds, replacement goods and rebates, I was trusted to make the decisions myself.

Other tasks included making decisions about what kind of hardware to buy for use in internal courses.

Sales Engineer

Procard ApS

User support for ProCards main product eClub Professional.

In my daily tasks I used Ultra VNC, the regular Microsoft programs and did some SQL database lookups.

I planned installation of hardware at customer sites and installed the hardware myself. This led to direct customer contact and on-site support.

IT-Support

Coop Danmark

Primary responsibilities and tasks:
- Support for Coop’s (at that time) 1200 stores in Denmark and Greenland
- Phone helpdesk (also remote), working weekends and up to 11 hour shifts.
- Troubleshooting with the store personnel and reporting incidents.
- Troubleshooting POS terminals

My infinite goal is to improve and be a little less wrong than yesterday, while my broad experience fast tracks my understanding of new areas.
I believe in treating everyone with the same respect and value dedication, collaboration and honesty.

I aim to use my analytical and strong troubleshooting skills to support the value chain, as well as stay alert to any process improvements. I see myself as the link between people and IT and support this link with my communication skills. 

I apply for positions that let me pursue this goal, while allowing my team freedom to achieve success, by bringing their ideas to fruition and by optimising existing conditions.
I thrive in a work environment that has a strong team-spirit and a clear common goal. 

I am from 1983, lived my whole life in Denmark, but love travelling and experiencing foreign cultures. In my free time I enjoy staying fit, keeping up to date on various technologies and exploring topics in business psychology. 
The most recent book I've read was "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" - Jeff Sutherland" and I'm currently reading "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, Goerge Spafford.

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