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Jan 6, 2019 · Torben Majgaard, 48, pioneer in Ukraine’s IT sector and philanthropist, dies. After coming to Ukraine in 1998, Danish native Torben Majgaard quickly went from selling second-hand computers in his 20s to creating Ciklum, one of the nation’s five largest information technology ou. by Brian Bonner | January 6, 2019, 9:19 pm.
Torben was born on March 15th, 1970 in Herning, Denmark to Anne Kirstine Majgaard Kristensen and the late Henry Majgaard Kristensen. By instinct, Torben had a remarkable flair for business and the courage to take risks, this cocktail was one of his most important strengths.
Ciklum was founded in 2002 by Danish native Torben Majgaard who chaired the Board by 2019, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since then, the company has grown to over 3,500 employees. In 2009, Ciklum buys main business activities from Mondo's bankruptcy. In 2011, Ciklum acquires 50% of SCR Gruppen .
Jan 6, 2019 · Torben Majgaard, the founder and then-CEO of Ciklum, one of Ukraine's top IT companies, speaks with the Kyiv Post in 2017. Majgaard died on Jan. 3 at the age of 48 in Marbella, Spain.
Its founder, Torben Majgaard, explains how a small hardware import firm grew into a multinational business that advises Fortune 500 companies, and what it takes to succeed in Ukraine
Torben, a Dane living in the Ukraine, is founder and CEO of www.ciklum.net, a company providing IT resources from Eastern Europe to smaller and medium size IT companies in Western Europe, currently employing close to 1000 people.
There were also no big ideas or plans to revolutionise the IT world. Instead, there was Torben Majgaard, at the time a moderately successful serial entrepreneur from Denmark nearing his 30th birthday and trying to figure out how to marry his fondness for eastern Europe, entrepreneurship and money.
