Dan Alexander MacGregor Sadolin

Lived in:

Dragør, Denmark, 1914-1935
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK, 1935-1936
Manhattan, New York, USA, 1936-1939
Dragør, Denmark, 1939-1951
Lima, Peru, 1951-1954
Dragør, Denmark, 1954-2000

Educations:

1933-1935
Management Trainee, Group Finance Department and Group Export Department, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1935-1936
Non-Degree Studies in Economics and English, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, the UK

1938
M.B.A., Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University, Manhattan, New York, USA

1956
Stanford Executive Program (SEP) (then The Executive Development Program), Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

1978
B.A. (Anthropology/Ethnology), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1980
M.A. (Anthropology/Ethnology), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Work:

1935-1936
Executive Assistant to James D. Mooney, President of General Motors Overseas Operations and Vice President of General Motors Corp., London, Middlesex, England, UK

1936-1937
Executive Assistant to James D. Mooney, President of General Motors Overseas Operations and Vice President of General Motors Corp., Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

1937-1939
Executive Assistant to Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Chairman & CEO, General Motors Corp., Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

1939-1940
Export Manager, Exports outside Nordic countries, Group Export Department, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1940-1942
Sales Manager, Domestic Sales, Sadolin Printing Inks Operations Denmark, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1942-1944
Sales Director, Domestic Sales, Sadolin Printing Inks Operations Denmark, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1944-1946
Vice President and General Manager, Sadolin Printing Inks Operations Denmark, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1946-1949
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Sadolin Printing Inks Operations Denmark and Group Export Department, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1949-1951
Executive Vice President and Member of Group Executive Board, Sadolin Printing Inks Operations Denmark, Group Export Department, and Foreign Printing Inks Factories, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1951-1954
Co-Founder, Co-Owner and Co-President and Co-CEO, Sadolin & Stimann S.A. (owner of trading houses, and paint and printing Ink factories in South America), Lima, Peru

1954-1957
Executive Vice President and Member of Group Executive Board, Sadolin Printing Inks Operations Denmark, Group Export Department, and Foreign Paint and Printing Inks Factories, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1959-1974
Co-President and Co-CEO of Sadolin & Holmblad and Member of Group Executive Board, President and CEO of Sadolins International Division (all international operations, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1974-1975
Interim Executive Vice President and Member of Group Management Board, Division President of Sadolin Paint Division International (paint factories outside Nordic countries), Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

Formally retired on January 1, 1974, but stayed on an interim basis until March 31, 1975)

Memberships:

1946-1975 (except, 1951-1954)
Chairman or Member of the Board of Directors of all of the foreign companies (+20), Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1958-1974
Président Directeur Général (PDG) of Sadolins (France) S.A., Paris, France

1968-1989
Président Directeur Général (PDG) of Division Technique du Bâtiment (Sadolin) S.A.R.L., Paris, Franc
1971-1974
Member of the Board of Directors of all of the Danish companies, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd.

1971-1983
Member of the Board of Directors of Kemisk Værk Køge Ltd. (Chemical Works Koege Ltd.), Copenhagen, Denmark

1975-1979
Senior Advisor to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark

1979-1984
Member of the Board of Directors of Sadolin & Holmblad Ltd.

Expertise (after retirement):

After retirement in 1975, became a reorganized expert in Pre-Columbian art and culture, Egyptian and Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Sudan, and South Sudan) archeology, anthropology, and ethnology, and Nordic orchids and ornithology.