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Christian Lanng

Working on whats next at Beyond Work

Paris, Île-de-France

Overview 

Christian Lanng is the Co-Founder at Beyond Work, where he focuses on product development, strategy, and customer growth. Previously, he served as Chairman and CEO of Tradeshift, co-founding the company and leading it to success. Notable highlights include his role as a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society, and his experience as Head of Division at the National IT and Telecom Agency.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder, Product, Strategy & Customer Growth

    2023 - Current

    Working with the best team to push the frontier of AI in the enterprise.

  • Chairman

    2013 - 2023

    Managing the Tradeshift Board

  • CEO, Cofounder

    2009 - 2023

    Leading an organization of talented people all over the world to change how business is done.

Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers.

Raised $1,131,000,000.00 from LUN Partners Group, Notion Capital, AYTK, Doha Venture Capital, HSBC, IDC Ventures, The Private Shares Fund, GS Growth, Fuel Venture Capital and CrossWork.us.

  • Member Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society

    2014 - 2018

    Members of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society will come together to discuss the how the next generation of enterprise and personal digital eco-systems will evolve, define the key drivers and issues and prioritise those which require greater understanding, action or global collaboration. http://www.weforum.org/content/global-agenda-council-future-software-society

  • Head of Division, IT & Infrastructure Division

    2008 - 2009

    Ran the Danish IT & Infrastructure division in the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Responsible for launching Easytrade and later PEPPOL together with Mikkel Hippe Brun, and Gert Sylvest. Launched the first Danish Open Government data program ODIS, the first large scale community for digitalization driving citizen participation: digitaliser.dk and the public sectors first Open Source Strategy, focusing on government digitalization as a platform enabler for innovation and growth, not just a effieciency driver. During my time as Head of Division Denmark ranked as one of the highest placed nations in the world in the Economists e-government readiness ratings and OECD's e-government rank.

  • Task Force Lead, SOA Task-force

    2006 - 2008

    Became the first digital taskforce to use strategic implementation of software and policy to drive cross public sector digitalization, open-data and innovation. Worked on open standards and open-source components for health-care, supply chain and digital single-sign-on improving quality of service, transparency and access to digitalization in the public sector.

  • Head of Section

    2006 - 2006

    Project manager for the Danish NemHandel project (EasyTrade). NemHandel won the Danish digitalization award in 2009.

  • CEO, Founder

    1998 - 2001

    Human Zoo was an early-stage internet and mobile technology provider that experimented with everything from games to mobile browsers.

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