Soren Dalsager, who was president of Nuuk, Greenland-headquartered Royal Greenland’s operations in the United States from 1999-2008, has been rehired as chief executive officer of the company’s business in the United States. He will assume the helm on March 1 and join Sales Manager Valerie Murphy and Logistics Manager Kristen Burbank at offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
The vertically integrated seafood company, which is primarily engaged in the frozen sector, typically generates more than half of its sales in the foodservice and further processing segments of the market.
Recent growth in North America has been driven by the acquisition of Quin-Sea Fisheries in 2016 and the strong supply of snow crab along with other North Atlantic species such as cold water shrimp, Greenland turbot and king crab from Chile. It is based on these recent years of strong results in the market that the group has now decided to expand its activities further in the United States.
Dalsager, a Danish national, is the founder of San Francisco Fisheries and Yutai Seafoods in China. For the past 13 years he has been chief executive officer of San Francisco Fisheries. Prior to that, in addition to logging nine years of executive experience at Royal Greenland, he worked in seafood production management for Faroe Seafood A/S and Seagull A/S, and was engaged in international management consulting for Matcon Consulting A/S. Additionally, he served as executive vice president of global sales for Regal Springs and worked with a large Russia-based project until the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic hit hard in unleashing the global Covid-19 health and economic crisis.
Meanwhile Royal Greenland’s Soren Eschen, who resides in Denmark, has accepted the position of sales director for operations in Southern and Eastern Europe, and market development in the Middle East, Africa, South and Central America.
