Board of Directors
Sten Scheibye, Chairman
Sten Scheibye is chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S. From 1995 to 2008 he was president and CEO of Coloplast A/S, Denmark. Before joining Coloplast in 1993, Mr Scheibye served as senior vice president, sales & marketing in Leo Pharma A/S, Denmark. He joined Leo Pharma in 1981.
Mr Scheibye is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Trade Council of Denmark and the Board of Governors of DTU (the Technical University of Denmark), and a member of the Board of Danske Bank A/S, Rambøll Gruppen A/S, DADES A/S, the Industrial Mortgage Fund and the Aase and Ejnar Danielsen Foundation, all of Denmark.
Furthermore, he is chairman of the Denmark-America Foundation and vice-chairman of the Danish Fulbright Commission.
Mr Scheibye has an MSc in Chemistry and Physics from 1978 and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from 1981, both from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a BComm from the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, from 1983. Mr Scheibye is also an adjunct professor of applied chemistry at the University of Aarhus.
Mr Scheibye was elected to the Board of Novo Nordisk A/S in 2003 and has been re-elected several times, most recently in 2009. He became vice-chairman in 2004 and chairman in 2006. His term as a board member expires in March 2010.
In January 2009, the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S assessed that Mr Scheibye is regarded as an independent board member as defined in Section V.4 of Recommendations for corporate governance designated by the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen (2008). At the same time, the Board of Directors also assessed that the special competences possessed by Mr Scheibye that are important for the performance of his duties are his knowledge of the healthcare industry, particularly as relates to patients requiring chronic care, and managerial skills relating to international organisations.
Mr Scheibye is a Danish national, born on 3 October 1951.
