A Balancing Act: Driving Value for the Mothership, the Portfolio Company, and the Ecosystem Simultaneously

Innovators Insight with

Sarah Landsted

Operating Partner at Maersk Growth

14 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 CEST

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About the session

About the speaker

Sarah is a Partner at Maersk Growth, the venture arm of A.P. Moller – Maersk, with over ten years of experience in the shipping and logistics industry. Before joining Maersk, Sarah worked at Google.

Sarah earned a Master's Degree in Finance and Strategic Management from Copenhagen Business School, including studies at Cornell University. She has split her career between strategy and management consulting and commercial roles, primarily in product management. Sarah has worked in various industries, including infrastructure, retail, energy, transport, and logistics, with extended periods in China, North America, and South Africa. She joined Maersk Growth in early 2021.

As Operating Partner, Sarah leads the teams focused on realising strategic value for Maersk from its startup portfolio companies and driving value for them as a strategic investor. Strategic value is driven through collaborations between Maersk and the start-up portfolio and by gaining insights from the external innovation ecosystem around what the future could have in store within supply chain and logistics. Notably, Sarah led the commercial agreement between Maersk and Einride, a Swedish electric and autonomous trucking scale-up, announcing a major deployment of electric heavy-duty trucks with Maersk in North America in March 2022.

Sarah’s passions include running, surfing, and, most recently, mountaineering.

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