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Jacob Taarup-Esbensen

Communication and Economics degree from Copenhagen Business School. Founder of a company specialized in Freelance process and communication consulting.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Full-Time Student
Website: http://www.identitas.dk
Skills: Business, Danish, Editing, Entrepreneurship, German, Guerrilla marketing, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Norwegian, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Sales, Swedish, Writing
Location: Copenhagen
Groups: START Danmark, StudieVirk
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Supporting my investments
Tags: communication, csr, gender, pr, quality management, sri
Schools: Copenhagen Business School

FEATURED STARTUP

Identitas

Identitas Identitas

Project and Communication management

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: CSR Gender Group
Position: Partner
Time period: September 2009 - Present
Description: Partnering with Gender specialists and consultants in Sweden and Denmark creating a CSR model which takes into account gender as part of the business model.

Employer: Identitas
Position: Consultant
Time period: January 2006 - Present
Description: In 2007 I started my own company, which is specialized in Freelance process and communication consulting.

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: PM Operations Manager
Time period: January 2002 - December 2006
Description: Responsibility for all DHL’s Export from Nordics and Baltic. Manager for 5 Sub-departmental supervisors and to specialists.
The department as a whole had a budget of 4 M Euro and employed app. 100 staff.
- Network Control Group (NCG).
The department is mainly working with local operation communication, where information is gathered from various sub-departments and forwarded to the rest of DHLs network and the other way around. The department employs 7 staff.
- Ramp.
Off-loading and loading flights/trucks aprox. 420 per. month. 40 Staff.
- Sort International.
Sorting of DHLs products from the Nordic and Baltic to the rest of the world. 40 staff.
- Sort Domestic.
Sorting and acceptance of freight from Denmark to the rest of the world. 22 staff and 420 vans/trucks per month.
- Customs and Airfreight.
Clearance of export freight from Denmark. 14 staff.
Projects:
- Transport Management program (TMP): An BPR type program to insure optimization of processes and productivity for HUBs and Gateways within DHL Aviation.
- Head of operational training in Copenhagen and coordinator of between project groups and training implementation.
- Initiatives to explore opportunities and synergies after merger of DHL with several other big transport companies.
- Group leader of the Middle Management steering group with the responsibility for review of strategic objectives.

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: AM Sort Supervisor
Time period: January 1998 - December 2002
Description: - Leading and developing 8 teamleaders. Which in-turn lead 67 Sorters.
- Responsible for development and implementation of various quality systems in the department.
- Transport Harmonisation (THP), A quality system that has the purpose to standardise work procedures across DHL Network
- Pipelinevisibility, Program to optimise routing and logistics for express shipments in the DHL network.
- ISO9002. (Work instructions and procedures)
- ISO14001. (Work instructions)
- Responsible for implementation of IT systems used for warehouse control and customs clearance. (AHS - Aviation Hub System, CDS - Customs Declaration System
- Daily leader of the safety workers counsel.
- Auditor for Internal quality systems THP and ISO.
- Responsible for development and management of different projects and organisational efforts :
- Process improvement in CPH-HUB in assertion with process engineers from headquarters in Brussels.
- Development of Team Service Quality Index that links process improvement and targets to team efforts.
- Development of training programs for blue-collar workers in association with local government and union.
- Development of policy on staff welfare.
- Development of reporting and documentation systems to be used in process improvement.
- Y2K program in CPH-HUB.
- CPH-HUB expansion with 2000m2 of sort area and development of new sort system.

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: General Freight Sales Co-ordinator
Time period: January 1997 - December 1998
Description: Working in close relation with other DHL stations in the Nordic to optimize the logistics for DHL products General Freight Sales (GFS)..

Employer: DHL Aviation
Position: Sorter/facility assistant/Customs clerk
Time period: January 1995 - December 1997

EDUCATION

University: Copenhagen Business School
Time period: 2008 - 2010
Degree: Business administration and Communication, MSc

INFORMATION

Memberships: Dansk Forening for Kvalitet: Danish Quality association.
Member of the Danish Professional Communication Association.
CSR Gender Group
• Member of Young Danish Entrepreneurs.
• Member of the board of directors in Stardust CBS the entrepreneurs association at Copenhagen Business School.
• Roundtable group for leaders with diploma degrees.
• Head of local homeowners association.

Jacob's Startups (3)

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  • Buzztheater

    Online movie theater for independet film. Actively supporting independet filmmakers and lovers.

  • SRI Portfolio solutions

    Social Responsible Investments are on the raise and have been for some time I want to create a portfolio company were private and institutional investors can manage their funds using different types of screenings.

  • Identitas

    Project and Communication management

Jacob is Following (1)

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  • IndieGoGo

    IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen.

Jacob's Contacts (5)

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  • Rade Glomazic

    Currently a Doctoral candidate in Political science at the European Center for Peace and Development of the UN University of Peace. Have over ten years of professional experience working in socio-economic development activities and int. cooperation

  • Are Ellingsve

    Finishing my MSc @ Copenhagen Business School this summer. I run White Oak, a business service and consulting company - We help small companies with the "business stuff" at reasonable prices

  • Martin B. Justesen

    Danish, 38, majoring in Social Science, Danish Language and Educational Studies. Founder of crossuniversity network StudieVirk. Selfemployed and openminded about new projects.