Mikael Dalgaard has more than 25 years of international experience from manufacturing and tech industries combined with a strong leadership platform and relevant educational background. Currently, he is Director IT & Digitalisation at GPV, where he has been working since 2001. In his current role, he is responsible for leading the IT & Digitalisation organisation, providing strategic ambitions for digitalisation & roadmap, securing GPV against Cyber- and IT threats, building and maintaining an available, agile, and scalable IT-landscape, ensuring an efficient digital transformation accordant to GPVs business strategy, driving projects and ensuring prober planning and timely execution (focusing on quality, time, and cost), enforcing efficient IT Governance management - focusing on compliance, policies, and guidelines, providing technical support for manufacturing sites and end-users, and for the budget administration, investments, as well as operational expenditures.

GPV was founded in Denmark in 1961 and is a leading European and global electronics manufacturers with production in nine countries worldwide. Headquarters in Denmark serve as base for our electronics, mechanics and cable-assemblies manufacturing operations in Austria, China, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and Thailand. With a turnover of approximately DKK 2.9 billion (EUR 390m) and a staff count of more than 3,700 employees worldwide, it puts GPV among the Top-10 largest European-based EMS companies. GPV provides complex electronics, cable-harness, mechatronics and box-build solutions including design and engineering activities to customers worldwide within high mix / low-medium volume. Our customers are typically among the very best in their niche.