Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization Adidas
Location Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Kasper Rorsted was born in Aarhus, Denmark on February 24, 1962. He is a Danish citizen and graduated from the International Business School in Copenhagen and completed his studies with several executive courses at Harvard Business School, USA.
He started his career in sales and marketing at the US high-tech companies Digital Equipment and
Oracle, the first having been acquired by Compaq in 1998. From 1995 Kasper held different international management positions at Compaq and from 2001 was responsible as general manager for the company's Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) business.
In 2002 Compaq was merged with Hewlett Packard. Before Kasper left the company in 2004 he was Senior Vice President and General Manager at Hewlett Packard, where he last headed the EMEA business with more than 40,000 employees and sales of about 20 billion euros.
In April 2005 Kasper joined Henkel as Executive Vice President Human Resources, Purchasing, Information Technologies and Infrastructure Services.From April 2007 Rorsted was Vice Chairman of the Henkel Management Board.
In January 2016, it was announced that adidas AG, a German sportswear company, had appointed Kasper to its executive board, effective 1 August 2016, and as its chief executive officer, effective 1 October 2016, at which time Kasper will stand down as Chief Executive Officer of Henkel.
Kasper serves on the board of Cable & Wireless plc,, Bertelsmann SE & Co., KGA and Danfoss A/S in Denmark.
