Christian Lanng
Working on whats next at Beyond Work
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
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.