Royal Greenland has named Toke Binzer as its new chief executive officer, effective December 1. With this appointment, the Nuuk, Greenland-headquartered seafood company aims to strengthen its strategic leadership.
Binzer brings solid experience to the job from international corporations including IBM and TDC, where he has worked with complex transformation and development tasks. Additionally, through his time as director at Tusass, he has gained an in-depth knowledge of Greenlandic business and societal conditions. This combination of international experience and local insight makes him particularly suited to lead a company that is both an international market leader and a central societal player in Greenland.
Binzer grew up in Nuuk and returned to the city with his wife and two sons in connection with his job change to Tusass. With his personal anchoring in Greenland, he has a deep understanding of Royal Greenland’s significance – both as one of the country’s largest employers and as a central driving force in the Greenlandic economy.
“We look forward to the opportunities his experience and leadership style will bring,” said Chairman of the Board Niels Thomsen. “We share the ambitions of high professionalism, execution power, and a strong anchoring in Greenland – so I am very much looking forward to the collaboration.”
Preben Sunke, Royal the company’s interim chief executive officer, stated: “It has been an honor to lead Royal Greenland, albeit for a short time. I now look forward, together with the rest of the board, to collaborating with Toke to execute the strategy and restore the economy.”
Wholly owned by the Greenlandic self-government, Royal Greenland is vertically integrated fishing and processing enterprise that operates 49 factories in Greenland, Canada and Germany. Employing a work force of approximately 2,000 people, the company’s wild-caught product portfolio includes cold water prawns (shell-on and cooked and peeled), Greenland halibut, Atlantic cod, snow crab (from Canada and Greenland), plaice, lobster, Patagonian tooth fish and lump fish roe.
