Managing Director

Rolf Eriksen, born 1944, is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of H&M.

Rolf Eriksen has many years of experience from the retail trade beginning with a five-year course in decoration and scene-painting in Copenhagen, Denmark, completed in 1964. He worked as Marketing Manager for almost 20 years at the Danish department store ANVA in Copenhagen.

Rolf Eriksen came to H&M in 1986 as Country Manager for H&M Denmark. For a four-year period in the 1990s he was also Country Manager for H&M Sweden. In March 2000, he became the Managing Director and CEO of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB. Shareholding in H&M is 39.700. Rolf Eriksen is member of the Board of Directors of Bang Olofsen A/S since September 26, 2008. His shareholding in H&M amounts to 39,700.