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Dr. Einsmann has nearly 30 years of experience in the European consumer goods market. He currently serves as an Operating Partner and a member of the Board of Directors/Investment Committee of EQT, a leading European Private Equity Group sponsored by the Wallenberg group of Scandinavia (which includes, among others, Erickson Telephones, ABB Engineering, Astra Zeneca and Gambro Pharmaceuticals, SEB Bank, Scania Trucks). In addition, Dr. Einsmann serves on the Boards of Tesco Plc, in the United Kingdom, Carlson Group in the United States, (which includes, among others, Radisson Hotels, Radisson Seven Seas Cruise Ships, Thank God It's Friday Restaurants), and StoraEnso AB in Scandinavia, one of the world's largest forest and paper product companies.
Prior to his tenure at EQT, Dr. Einsmann held senior management positions, as well as a seat on the Worldwide Board at Procter and Gamble, one of the word's largest manufacturers and marketers of consumer products. Before leaving in 1999, Dr. Einsmann served as Procter & Gamble's President Europe, Middle East and Africa, and increased revenues from the seventy- six countries in these regions to $13 billion, growing net after tax profits 23% per year, every year, for fifteen years to $1.3 billion.
Dr. Einsmann is a graduate of the Hamburg and Heidelberg Universities in Germany where he received an MBA and a doctorate in Business Administration, Economics and Law. He was also a Fulbright scholar at the University of Florida, Gainesville, earning a Ph.D., with a thesis about the impact of the European Union on several U.S. industries. | 