Jesper Brandgaard joined Novo Nordisk in 1999 as corporate vice president of Corporate Finance and was appointed CFO in November 2000. He serves as chairman of the boards of Simcorp A/S, NNE Pharmaplan A/S and NNIT A/S, all in Denmark.
Mr Brandgaard has an MSc in Economics and Auditing from 1990 as well as an MBA from 1995, both from the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.