Career
Henrik Lund-Nielsen is mostly known from his latest role as Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of Gypsum Recycling International A/South, a Danish plasterboard and gypsum recycling group. Based on a world record of 80% recycling rate for gypsum waste in Denmark, he grew the company from an initially marginal Danish presence to the world leader in recycling of gypsum plasterboard (drywall) waste with several European subsidiaries and business in the United States and Asia. The company has also been awarded for their contribution to fighting climate change by receiving PricewaterhouseCoopers award for climate reduction in 2008, and Henrik Lund-Nielsen was profiled at the official stand at the United Nations Cop 15 climate summit in Denmark in 2009 as one of the leading Danish climate profiles.
With the establishment and international expansion of the gypsum recycling system, Henrik Lund-Nielsen is seen as the founding father of plasterboard recycling in Europe.
He is a frequent speaker at several international conferences on waste, recycling and gypsum such as the recurring Global Gypsum Conference. Since 2011 Henrik Lund-Nielsen has been the vice-chairman of the Danish Innovation network for environmental technology and The European Commission has also called upon him on more occasions to lecture on how effective recycling systems are established and run.
After finishing his Master of Business Administration, Henrik Lund-Nielsen joined Skandinavisk Industries A/South, the second largest office furniture manufacturer in Europe, where he advanced several times having been the Chief Executive Officer of various subsidiaries to subsequently become Divisional Director in 1998. From 1999 until 2003 he served as Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director at Faber A/South and Faber Holding A/South, which at that time had 1.000 employees and was the second largest manufacturer of window treatments in Europe owned by Velux.