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“Torben did a great job in one of our portfolio companies focusing on means and ways to increased profitability and growth. Torben is clear and to the point in communication and action. I can highly recommend working with Torben on businesses development.”

“Torben was very fast and worked well under the extreme time pressure that I put him under. Results driven and very focused”

"I have worked with Torben at several occasions, he is a great COO, he has the ability to understand a complex value chain and go to market proposition and twist it to deliver a fantastic result, he is highly commited, energetic and professional”

“Torben is working with me and the management team of our company to improve our financial performance. Torben is doing an excellent job, keeping focus on the essentials. Torben is highly goal oriented and motivates his surrounding players to act equally. I highly appreciates Torbens performance in our company and I recommend Torben as a highly qualified executive.”

“I worked close together with Torben for approximately 9 months in 2006/2007. During the period we cooperated in analyzing a large production unit, and draw up plans for several ambitious performance improvements. I found Torben very dedicated, committed and enthusiastic in this work, and he used a very structured model to achieve the objectives. I can strongly recommend Torben for these kinds of tasks.”

“I worked together with Torben from 2001 to 2006. During these 5 years Talkline developed significantly in terms of improved financial results as well as growth in customer base. Torben played a major role in achieving these results. I highly respect his ability to move an organisation forward, setting ambitous goals and achieving them through personal leadership.”

“Torben is able to make things happen and gather topmotivated people around him. His has delievered better and better results year by year and Torben can match everyone as a negotiator.”

“Torben is a very strong, implementation-oriented manager, driven by the desire to never accept a "no" but rather always push for higher aspirations. In doing so, he has built an exceptional track record of overachieving goals and pushing himself and his team to higher limits. He is a great colleague to work with, blending a both business-focused with very personal leadership style.”

“During the 7 years I have worked with Torben I have experienced him as the best project and turn around manager you can think of. He managed to develop a highly target orientated, creativ and motivated company which was the key for Talkline's success.”

“Torben is strong leader who formulates his vision, is able to articulate it, and has the management capability to get it implemented. I enjoyed working for him, and learned a lot from the experience. He was the greatest catalyst for positive change that I have ever worked for or with. His visionary and implementation of management tools were a model for me that I will always follow.”

“I had the opportunity to work in TR´s management team for about 4 years. I got to know Torben as a highly professional and business minded executive, with a distinctive sence on business targets, target-achievement, innovations and customer orientation. He always pushes himself and his team to higher limits and target overachievement. Even in bigger organisations, he shows the capability to focuss all members on short-run targets and their results. He always makes sure that his team works motivated and focussed at any time. During the period of time I worked with him, his project-culture realized a significant turnaround and increase in ebitda and at the same time in customer- and employee satisfaction. I enjoyed working for him at any time.”

“Torben is pronounced target orientated and full of drive. He is very strong implementation- oriented and an “effective troubleshooter”. This is based on a healthy and transparent project culture in which the entire organization knows all objectives and is involved on an ongoing basis. This conscious focusing on organizational culture created a turnaround which lead to a significant increase in EBITDA, customer base, customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction”

“Torben is very much goal and implementation-oriented. Torben makes challenges, goals, and strategy understandable for employees. He uses simple words and pictures to make sure that everybody in an organization understands the direction of the company. This makes company-wide programs and projects transparent and successful. The results are significant increase in EBITDA, customer base, customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction.”

“Torben is able to make things happen and gather topmotivated people around him. His has delievered better and better results year by year and Torben can match everyone as a negotiator.”

“I know Torben as a very target-oriented manager, aiming very high, being full of energy to achieve the strategic objectives. In different projects related to leadership culture and organisational development I appreciated his passionate, creative and convincing way of making contact with people, in order to form an unanimous and committed team with respect to the objectives. Having in mind that best results come with synergy in teams, he gives space and invites people to discuss things controversely. I had the chance to learn a lot from him.”

“I got to know Torben as very strong, target-oriented manager. His ability to inspire people and to convince them, that “good is not good enough” describes a little bit the passion he feels for his job. I enjoyed working with Torben. The way he pushes himself and his team for higher aspirations is exemplary.”

“I had the chance to work with Torben Rick for more than 3 years. With his extreme focus on goals Torben has implemented a high performance culture at Talkline. Torben has a clear sense of future directions for a company. For example has he focussed on e-business and empowered the e-business department at a time (2002) when almost every company in Germany has reduced or even fired their e-business department. Like this Talkline became the most successful telecommunication company in e-commerce at that time. Another success story was his strong focus on online-billing which saved millions of Euros to the company. A lot of his initiatives where copied by the competitors sooner or later...and with these advances he made Talkline to the most successful mobile service provider in Germany.”

“Torben is a high motivatived, business focused and customer orientated individual. He has incredible business focus and awareness. He uses his skills to ensure business results are achieved, but he also ensures that his team is focused, motivated and led to achieve results but also to deliver customer excellence at all levels of governence. A great asset to any company.”

“Torben is the most outstanding customer advocate I have worked with. He has been able to transform large service organisations into becoming totally customer oriented.”

“Torben shows an amazing dedication and professional focus on the business drivers of all the projects he works on. He managed to realise challenging projects both with internal process optimizations, re-engineering, employee motivational programs as well as managing large customer projects, succeeding in particular in though negotiation rounds.”

“Torben reengineered the total sales supporting process in TDC in very professional way. He raised in very short time the professionel level of competence in the organization and made complete management tools to monitor and train the level of competence for the complete support staff. I can recommend him to anybody who needs revitalizalion of a complex organisation.”