Fluidan
Fluidan is committed to making rheology monitoring easy.
Founded in 2014 by the inventor of RheoStream®, Physicist PhD Fridolin Okkels and by CEO Anders L. Østergård, Fluidan set out to develop a robust an easy-to-use instrument, that would essentially operate as a “rheology sensor”, albeit in a bigger box than most common sensors.
Numerous companies across many industry segments have confirmed the need for rheology monitoring because it will enable them to control manufacturing processes better and to reduce cost of re-work or waste. Most companies have robust processes but may still have an optimization potential of a few %. Other companies have very troublesome processes for some of their products and can tell of wasting 25-50% of products due to rheology issues in the process. Fluidan is determined to help them realizing the savings potential.
Fluidan is financed by semi public and private investors as well as by grants from Danish funds.
Management & Team
Anders L. Østergård
Business developer and CEO
Phone: +45 2374 5664
Fridolin Okkels
Inventor and CTO
Phone: +45 2537 8686
Peter Michelsen
Instrument Developer
Phone: +45 2533 2145
Board members
Tom Lund Jensen
Chairman of the Board of Fluidan.
Tom is founder and partner of Deployment Consulting, helping companies developing strong competitive platforms to defeat the challenges of growth, efficiency and
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profitability. Tom combines a Master of International Businnes from Copenhagen and Aarhus Business Schools with studies of Computer integrated Manufacturing at MIT and Strategy and Marketing at Harvard, during which he co-developed the category management concept. He subsequently took roles as supply cheain leader, CFO and CEO in the industrial and retail sector, before founding the Worlds first online community in 1999 with focus on extreme sports. Tom has published numerous articles in the field of winning psychology and organizations and breakthrough thinking.[/read]
Nils Christian Foss
Nils Christian has been advising and investing in start-up and early stage technology based companies for more than twelve years. He is currently an active shareholder in more than 10 tech companies in
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Denmark and abroad. Prior to taking the role as investor, Nils Christian co-founded a disruptive software business, He was a director at Oticon and he was a management consultant at McKinsey. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. [/read]
Steen Hoff
Steen has an extensive experience in the paints business from several senior managerial positions as CTO, Managing Director, and CSCO and presently as Group Supply Chain Director at Hempel A/S.
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Throughout the career, managing green-field project and introducing advanced production technology and continuous manufacturing principles, has been the key driver for more than 30 years.
Steen has an educational background as Naval Architect from Elsinore. Later he supplemented the engineering disciplines with a general management program at INSEAD in France. [/read]
Preben Carøe
With his technical and commercial background Preben has spend almost his whole career in international business with growing responsibilities from sales to general management, and with temporary assignments in
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France, The UK and the US. For the past 10 years Preben has been heading up a DKK1B division within an American corporation managing a global team with R&D, sales and manufacturing operations in Europe, the US and Asia. Preben brings more than 30 years of sales, marketing and operational experience to the Board. He is also a judge at the The Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court.[/read]
Helge Holm-Larsen
Helge is CEO of SDI, the main investor of Fluidan. Before that Helge has experience as Director of Business Development at Haldor Topsøe and BioGasol and CEO of TEGnology. He has also worked in a number of
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positions in NGOs and worked as an independent expert for national and international agencies and organizations. Helges experience includes high level international contract negotiation, project & portfolio management, team leadership, marketing & communication. [/read]