SUSANNE HOECK AND GUNNAR ECKBO

Susanne Hoeck In 2014, he developed the concept behind the Women's Board Award in collaboration with the Norwegian board organisation, Styreinfo AB, which had established the 'Gabrielsen Prize' in Norway in 2010, when Norway was the first country to introduce quotas for gender on boards.

Susanne Hoeck is a BA in Commercial Communication and a trained journalist, and has been editor-in-chief, manager and head of development in a number of organizations in Denmark and abroad. In 2023, was nominated for the Ministry of Digitalisation and Gender Equality's newly established Gender Equality Award and (re)admitted to Women's Blue Book. I 2019 was hired as the only Dane by the Olympic Committee in Japan as Press Venue Manager during the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, among other things to establish interaction between 600 volunteers, the global athletes, international media and a broadly composed organization. The effort was subsequently honoured with a special statement.

"Diversity in management is an important competitive parameter in the global arena. The Women's Board Award is not about equality based on a principle of justice, but about understanding business potential. At the same time, we need to optimize the value of the highly educated Danish women, into whom we have invested a lot of expensive education dollars."

Gunnar Eckbo

My vision and goal is to focus on optimising the composition of boards and the quality of work in order to optimise results and faster growth for start-ups and fewer losses for established companies.

By focusing on Nordic competence transfer at board level, Nordic companies in particular will increase global competitive advantages.