As of 24 September 2020, the EuroHPC JU is solely responsible for its operations and has the capacity to implement its own budget, under the direction of Mr. Anders Dam Jensen, its new Executive Director.
As the Executive Director of the EuroHPC JU, Mr. Jensen is the legal representative of the Joint Undertaking and the chief executive responsible for its day-to-day management in accordance with the decisions of the Governing Board.
Anders Dam Jensen has a lifelong interest in supercomputers, dating from his time in university where he earned a Master of Science in Engineering degree (specialising in electronics and computer science) and an MBA from the Technical University of Denmark. He started his professional career with 10 years of engineering work developing computing hardware and software for embedded systems, before successfully shifting into senior management positions in the ICT sector. As an IT Director, Mr. Jensen built up a very successful IT service provider for the airline industry. In 2011, Mr. Jensen joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) as Director for Information and Communication Technology Management.
