Thor Gunnar Kofoed, President

Born: 1959

Contact:

• +45 2349 2969
• tgk@lf.dk

Appointed to the Board of Directors of the TystofteFoundation on the 1^st of December 2014 by the Danish Agriculture and Food Council according to the charta of the TystofteFoundation. Reappointed 2022.

Merits:

• Farmer and seed producer

Entrusted positions:

• Vice Chairman of the Danish Agriculture and Food Council,
• Danish Seed Council,
• COPA WP SEED,
• European Seed Growers Group (ESGG)

Kim Bonde Petersen, Vicepresident

Contact: kbpe@nordicseed.com / Tlf. 88 87 51 01/21 20 93 92

Born: 1959

Managing director of Nordic Seed A/S

Member of the Board of the TystofteFoundation since 01st of December 2014. Appointed by Variety Denmark – according to the charta of the TystofteFoundation. Reappointed 2022.

Competances:

• Breeding, variety development and markedting of propagating material

Further position of trust:

• Board member of Variety Denmark
• Chair of Erstatningsordning for Sædekorn

Lise Nistrup Jørgensen, board member

Contact:

• lisen.jorgensen@agro.au.dk
• +45 5818 6210
• +45 2228 3352

Member of board of the TystofteFoundation since 1st of March 2016, supplementing the board acoording to the charta of the TystofteFoundation

Competances:

• Senior Researcher at Aarhus University
• Disease management

Further position of trusts:

• Board member of Pajbjergfonden

Klaus K Nielsen, board member

Contact: kkn@dlf.dk / Tlf.: +45 2040 2082

Born: 1961

Director of Corporate External Affairs,  DLF Seeds A/S

Member of the board of the TystofteFoundation since 01-11-2021 appointed by Danish Seed according to the charta of the TystofteFoundation

Research and development regarding varieties of grasses and clover

Further positions of trust:

• Danish Agricultural Council
• Danish Seed Council
• ISF and Euroseeds
• Advisory Boards of several Danish research projects
• Danish Seed Research Fund

Birger Eriksen, board member

Contact: bee@sejet.dk / Tlf.: 76 27 52 04/40 18 65 55

Born: 1960. CEO of Sejet Plant Breeding

Memeber of the board of the TystofteFoundation since 01-12-2014 and appointed by Variety Denmark – according to the charta of the TystofteFoundation. Reappointed 2022.

Competances:

• Variety development of cereals

Further positions of trust:

• President of Variety Denmark.
• Member of Euroseed Board and chair of Cereals and pulses
• Member of several Advisory Boards of Danish research projects

Gert Hansen Juhl, board member representing the employees

Born: 1965.

Contact:

ghj@tystofte.dk

+45 8171 8404

Entered the board of the TystofteFoundation on the 1st of April 2019 representing the employees according to the charta of the TystofteFoundation. Reappointed 2023.

Competences:

• Representing the employees
• Trial work