CEO: Dong is not yet where it needs to be

Dong Energy still needs to realize close to one fifth of CEO Henrik Poulsen's to-do list. The company will be busy for the next year and a half, he says.

BY MAZ PLECHINGER

Published: 27.02.17 at 08:28

IPO? Check. All-time high earnings and dividends? Check. Expansion of status as the world's largest wind turbine operator? Check.

Henrik Poulsen has achieved quite a bit in his four and a half years as CEO of Dong Energy. But the 49-year-old CEO does not see himself or the energy company as having crossed the finish line yet, he tells Danish media Berlingske Business.

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