METRO

Per Mikael Jensen
President
& Chief Executive Officer

Per Mikael Jensen re-joined Metro International as CEO and President late 2007. Per Mikael, born in 1962, holds a degree in journalism from the Denmark School of Journalism. He has had a 21-year career in the media industry including management positions with the Danish newspapers Politiken, Jyllandsposten and MetroXpress (subsidiary of Metro International), as well as Global Editor-in-Chief of Metro International, managing director of Metro New York and CEO of TV2 Denmark.

Silvio de Groot
Executive Vice President

Silvio is responsible for Holland, Italy and Greece. Silvio joined the company as Managing Director of Metro Holland in January 2002 and still serves as the Managing Director of Metro Holland today. Silvio started his career at Bertelsmann and was founder and managing director of it’s search engine Lycos in The Netherlands.

Christian Toksvig
Executive Vice President

Christian Toksvig began his media career straight out of business school. He worked for four years with the Danish business magazine, Monday Morning. In 2000, he took up his first position with Metro International. In 2002 he was hired by Northern & Shell Plc and from 2004, he was responsible for the international development of Northern & Shell’s OK! magazine, the world’s most successful international celebrity title. He rejoined Metro International as Vice President of Corporate Development in 2008. In 2009, he became Executive Vice President with responsibility for corporate development, global sales and operations in Asia and Russia.

Anders Kronborg
Chief Financial Officer
& Chief of Staff

Anders joined Metro in late 2007 with responsibility for HQ functions, organizational and business development. In October 2008, Anders was appointed Chief Financial Officer as well as continuing his responsibilities as Chief of Staff. He has 11 years experience in the media sector working as CFO, CEO and COO in the biggest national TV and Newspaper companies in Denmark. Prior to that he spent 10 years in the Danish ministry of Finance.

Martin Alsander
Executive Vice President

Martin is responsible for Sweden, Spain, Portugal, France and Hungary. He has previously been Managing Director for different Metro operations around the world and has also been involved in setting up the businesses in France and Portugal. Before joining Metro in 2001 Martin worked for Unilever in Sweden.

Pablo Mazzei
Executive Vice President

Pablo Mazzei was appointed Executive Vice President in January 2010. Pablo is responsible for Metro International S.A.’s interests in Latin America including the existing operations in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico, and the development of new markets. At the same time he is the Managing Director of the newspaper operation in Chile, as well as board member of the associated companies. Pablo has experience from working in the advertising market. He joined Metro International S.A. from a position as Managing Director of Carlson Marketing Group, where he was responsible for establishing the operation in Chile. Previous to this, he held a number of positions within the consumer product industry at different companies, Sara Lee, Shell and CCU to mention a few. He joined Metro International S.A. in 2001.