Denmark’s Sampension has appointed Helene Bløcher as executive vice president, effective 1 September.

Bløcher has a degree in economics from CBS and completed several postgraduate courses at INSEAD and Harvard. She has held several management roles at Nordea since 2006, most recently serving as corporate account manager.

She joins the Executive Board alongside Sampension CEO, Mads Smith Hansen, who took up the post earlier this year.

With Bløcher’s appointment, Sampension’s new executive board is complete. The executive board’s areas of responsibility and management roles within the four pension companies in the joint administration group will be finalised when Bløcher takes up her role.

Commenting on the appointment, Sampension chairman of the board of directors, Jens Ejner Christensen, said: “I am very pleased that we now have a new and visionary executive board in place, which will develop both the administration and our customers’ pension schemes.

“Like everything else, the pension market is constantly evolving, and I am convinced that the new Executive Board is a dynamic team that will continue to develop the company in a direction that benefits our customers.”

Adding to this, Smith Hansen said: “I look forward to working with Helene, who, with her values and her background, providing broad insight into the financial sector, and contribute to Sampension’s positive development. She is a good fit for Sampension and the company’s DNA.

“I have always worked on issues that are close to the hearts of Danes. Now I’ll be doing so from the pensions side, but fundamentally, my entire working life has been about creating financial security. And I’m very much looking forward to continuing that at Sampension. It will be an exciting challenge – and a good one at that,” Bløcher said.

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