Stefan Brechling Larsen
Stefan Brechling Larsen, 50, is the Global Sustainability Services Leader at Lenovo. In his position, he has been driving the development of a new One Lenovo initiative around cross-cutting global Sustainability Services within Lenovo’s Services department that will focus specifically on creating new offerings and solutions to support Lenovo’s customers in making green IT choices. The team works across all Lenovo’s markets and business areas, including both PCs, mobile phones and data centers.
Stefan Brechling Larsen joined Lenovo 13 years ago. In his previous position as Service & Sales Lead for the Nordics, he developed Lenovo’s recognized CO2 offset program, which enables Lenovo’s business customers to compensate for the product-specific CO2 footprint of their purchased PCs at the time of purchase by investing in a selection of UN Climate Change projects.
Through the program initiated by Stefan Larsen, which quickly became a success in the Nordic markets and has now been rolled out globally, Lenovo’s customers have already offset more than 10 million tons of CO2 in just five years. Lenovo has also been able to announce that the company as the first electronics manufacturer has received a DEKRA validation for the offset program.
With international customer focus, he has designed and developed a comprehensive team of Global Sustainability Consultants, that via customer solution-oriented workshops, provides customers an operational and strategic path on their sustainability journey.
He has also been the founder of the Lenovo RCT Service making it possible for the customers to utilize SAF as a solution to Airfreight CO2 reduction but also benefit in reducing their Scope 3 impact.
Stefan has furthermore been a central part of the initial strategic and operational development of LISSA and how it this will benefit our customers sustainability journey and their goals.
As the latest, Stefan is now also developing and exploring the close corporation and interaction with our global Strategic Alliance partners around specific sustainability solution and services.
Stefan is widely being used to present and discuss the broader market and trends around sustainability both at conferences, expert roundtables and industry discussions.
Privately, he lives in Vedbæk, Denmark with his family.
