Board of Directors

Heinrich Jessen started his career as a tropical biologist before joining the family enterprise in 1995. In Jebsen & Jessen, he has worked as group director – environment, health & safety, general manager of two of the group’s packaging companies and regional managing director of its material handling joint-venture MHE-Demag. He has been chairman of Jebsen & Jessen’s executive board since 2010. He is also partner and director in the four other independent business groups that together make up the Jebsen & Jessen Family Enterprise.

Heinrich is a member of the Eastern Asia Review Commission of Air Liquide International and an Advisor to the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He is also a member of the Yale University President’s Council on International Activities and a member of both the Steering Committee and the Dean’s Leadership Council of the Yale School of the Environment. He is Past Chairman of the Young President’s Organization Intercontinental Chapter and has previously served on the boards of the Singapore National Employers Federation, the United World College of South East Asia, the Parkinson’s Disease Society of Singapore and the Singapore Environment Council. He was awarded Singapore Businessman of the Year in 2016.

Mr Jessen earned a B.Sc. from George Washington University and an M.E.M. from Yale University.

Per Magnusson has been with the group since 2008 and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2015. Mr Magnusson is responsible for the Technology, Packaging, and Life Sciences business units as well as the emerging markets and group functions such as Finance, HR and Strategy.

Mr Magnusson is also a member of the board of the global mining and abrasives group GMA Garnet, a council member of the Singapore Business Federation and is the chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce.

Mr Magnusson is a Swedish citizen and holds Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from top-ranked universities in Sweden (Chalmers University) and Canada (University of Waterloo). He also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Uppsala University, Sweden.