PRESS INFORMATION 2022
Marianne Wiinholt receives the Women's Board Award 2022
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On Friday 25 March 2022, 56-year-old Marianne Wiinholt received the prestigious award, the Women's Board Award. The award was presented by Bjarne Corydon and jury leader Lars Rasmussen at Deloitte in Copenhagen in the company of 150 invited guests.
Marianne Wiinholt has a long-standing career at Ørsted, formerly Dong Energy, most recently as CFO and VP. A position she will resign from on 1 April to take up the position of Group CFO of WS Audiology. At the same time, Marianne Wiinholt has embarked on a professional board career with current positions in Norsk Hydro and Coloplast.
"I am incredibly proud and happy to receive the award. I see it as a recognition of the role I play in the companies where I sit on the board. Board work is teamwork. A strong team dynamic and good relationships with management are crucial to creating value in board work, and this is something I attach great importance to and think I succeed with. I represent the typical CFO profile who is 'plug and play' in relation to leading an audit committee. However, the many years of experience in large and complex companies mean that my focus is much broader, and that is what makes it interesting for me."
It is a jury of experienced board leaders who have chosen Marianne Wiinholt as the recipient of the Women's Board Award 2022, with outgoing jury chair, Thomas Thune Andersen, in the lead:
"I have deeply appreciated my collaboration with Marianne over many years, both at Ørsted and in the other board-related assignments we have had together. Marianne is a role model of the highest calibre and deserves this important recognition for her great efforts."
"In addition to a strong executive career and relevant board experience, it is important that the award recipient can and will use the award to be an active ambassador for the diversity that is lacking in the Danish board landscape. We need competent, clear role models who dare to take the lead."
Marianne Wiinholt is the seventh recipient of the Women's Board Award in Denmark. She has been selected from an extensive pool of female board members who do not yet have a chairmanship, but are considered to have the potential as a role model for future board leaders of both genders. The candidates have delivered proven financial results and have strong references from their business careers both inside and outside the boardroom.
"I wish there was no need for a special board award for women, but there is until the day when women do not 'resign' for one reason or another before they reach the top management levels. In particular, women are severely underrepresented in CEO positions. I have been on Norsk Hydro's board of directors for many years, and I see the steps they have taken in Norway to get more women on boards are working. I believe that a broad toolbox is needed to get more women into the front rows, where some have an effect quickly and others will require time, here I would like to mention shared parental leave, which I believe will have a great effect in the long run. Role models are important, and here I think an award like the Women's Board Award makes a difference."
