Mr. Vidar Gundersen, CEO KGH Group

+46 703 462900
vidar.gundersen@kghcustoms.com

Vidar Gundersen has been working with international trade, border and customs procedures and customs modernisation the greater part of his life. For the last twenty years Vidar has been dedicated to continuously developing border services processes, procedures and IT systems, both inside and outside Customs.

During the 90’s Vidar Gundersen was CEO for KGH Spedition.

After that he started working in the Swedish Customs, as Head of Strategy and later CIO. He has been in the lead of the transformation of the agency into one of the leading customs organisations in the world. With relatively limited resources Swedish Customs have created price winning service models creating business value to both our customers and the customs agency – trade facilitation in practice. He has been working with models spanning from traditional customs procedures; tariffs, valuation, declaration handling, duty collection and enforcement, to advanced Authorised Economic Operator Concepts and e-Government Services. These models are later successfully adapted on an international level, both as a basis for the EU AEO concepts and as part of the WCO Framework of Standards (SAFE).

Mr. Gundersen has also been engaged as a chairman in the work creating the new import procedures for the European Union and been representing Sweden in the steering committee (Electronic Customs Group) responsible for the EU reform program (MASP – Multi Annual Strategic Plan). Before that he was engaged in the work establishing the ICT strategy for the Customs Union and at the same time engaged in the Swedish Governments board for ICT development in government agencies.

Mr. Patrik Heinesson, MD KGH Border Services

+46 738 210172
patrik.heinesson@kghcustoms.com

Patrik Heinesson has an extensive background in Customs and international trade policy and has served as a Counsellor with responsibility for Customs at the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the European Union and the World Customs Organizations.

Mr. Heinesson was made Director and head of the Executive Office of the Swedish Customs Administration in 2004 with responsibility for International Affairs, International Development Assistance, relations with government Offices, Risk Management, Strategic Planning and internal corporate planning, reporting directly to the Director General for Customs.

Mr. Heinesson has also been assigned as Senior Advisor to the World Customs Organizations Regional Office for Capacity Building in East and Southern Africa. The Office is responsible for co-ordination of capacity building activities in 22 African countries, discussions with possible Donors and for acting as an intermediate between the World Customs Organizations Secretariat in Brussels and its regional members.

Mrs. Anita Graff, MD Nordic

+47 9594 0646
anita.graff@kghcustoms.com

Anita Graff started her career in the Norwegian Customs in 1983 and she has lately been working as assistant director within the department of Customs, VAT and Movement of Goods. The last few years she has been responsible for all procedures and systems for the movement of goods between Norway and other countries as well as the dialogue between the Norwegian customs and the business community.

She has also been responsible for large national and international projects and here she has worked in close cooperation with other countries customs authorities, WCO (World Customs Organisation) and the EU.

Anita started her new position at KGH in the beginning of August 2010.

Ms. Sandra Hermansson, CFO KGH Group

+46 702 313000
sandra.hermansson@kghcustoms.com

Sandra Hermansson is the Chief Financial Officer for the KGH Group and has the total responsibility for the Groups finances.

She studied for five years at Karlstad University after high-school and has a university degree with specialization in Business Administration and Jurisprudence.

After that Sandra started working at KGH 1998 with Norwegian accounting and has been working in the Group since then with different tasks. In 2000 she became the group CFO and is currently working from our office in Strömstad.

Mr. Jan Ehrensvärd, VP Sales & Marketing

+46 709 308276
jan.ehrensvard@kghcustoms.com

Jan Ehrensvärd studied at the Stockholm School of Economics between 1989-1994. In between his studies (1991-1992) he worked as a salesman and sales instructor for Electrolux in Germany.

Between 1994 and 2000, Jan worked for Tetra Pak in Australia where he held a number of sales management positions before becoming its Sales and Marketing Director.

In the year 2000 he was the founder and CEO of Parcelhouse who offers supply-chain visibility solutions to a variety of business sectors. Parcelhouse was acquired by E-builder who now operates across the world, offering business process outsourcing services to a number of large multinationals.

In 2002 Jan joined the NYSE-listed company Checkpoint Systems as its Managing Director for the Nordic countries and in 2006 he became responsible for Business Development and Acquisitions worldwide.

Jan Ehrensvärd started working at KGH in 2008 and is now responsible for  Acquisitions, Marketing and the DACH region.

Mr. Jan Erik Hermanseter, dCEO KGH Group

+47 4814 1000
janerik.hermanseter@kghcustoms.com

Jan Erik Hermanseter started his career in his father’s company within the Transport Branch, were he during the years worked with most of the different tasks in the business.

In August 1989 he became Site manager at Grensespedisjon in Örje and continued as Site Manager at Hån from 1991 to 1997.

He started at KGH in 1998 and has worked here as Marketing Director, Administrative Director and after that he was CEO for the whole Group after the merger in 2002 and up to 2007.

Mr. Roger Lundström, CIO KGH Group

+46 703 941079
roger.lundstrom@kghcustoms.com

Roger Lundström has been working almost his whole professional life in the Swedish Customs.
Since starting his career 1976 in the Swedish Customs he has got experience from all areas of a customs organisation. Starting as an enforcement officer, moving on to the fiscal side with special education in customs procedures, tariffs, customs value and duties, through a period as teacher at the customs school, ending up as head of unit in the customs development department and finally as deputy CIO and a short time CIO of the Swedish Customs before he started working at KGH in 2008 as CIO.
As head of unit in the customs development department he had the responsibility of process- and IT-development, bench-marking and project governance. The most comprehensive assignment during this period was as head project manager for the Swedish customs Stairway® project. This created the new processes which partly have been a model both for the European Union AEO-concept and the WCO SAFE concept.

He has also been working as an expert in development projects in the European Union and in missions sponsored by the World Customs Organisation, focused on Africa.

Mr. Roger Andersson, VP Business Innovation

+46 733 003080
roger.andersson@kghcustoms.com

After IT studies at the University of Lund Roger Andersson started his career in the Swedish Customs in 1987. At Customs he started up working with fiscal questions and customs auditing, specializing in export control and classification. A major part of his time in Swedish Customs was as head teacher at the Customs School with main responsibility for programs in IT, Economy and Customs auditing.

Between 1996 and 2009 Roger worked for EdiCom, a provider of software for Customs & Transport administration, as a software consultant. Roger held different positions at EdiCom before becoming its CEO.
Roger Andersson started working at KGH in 2009 and is now responsible for Business Innovation.

Johan Kuper, VP and Managing Director
(Netherlands, Belgium and UK)

+ 31 591 554535
johan.kuper@kghcustoms.com

Johan Kuper, an entrepreneur in Customs, started his contemporary experience and knowledge when he was 18 years old.

Between 1992 and 1998, Johan was asked by Customs to establish an "unmanned" Customs office, where New Amsterdam office was included in the legislation.

From 1994, Johan started to develop, link and cluster  IT knowledge and legislation. Johan has had several years in key positions at FENEX and is still a CLECAT member of the CITI.

In 2001, along with Ali Braam, Douaneopleidingen Nederland was established with the aim: to bring courses and link to business processes.

In 2003 along with Ali Braam, Kuper Customs Service Rotterdam BV was established in Rotterdam (sea freight) and Schiphol (airfreight) branches.

Rolling out Douane Assessment Tool and Douanelinq, based on the direction of MCC and the MCC-IP in 2013.

From 2011,  Kuper Douaneservice is a part of KGH Customs Services.