Luxion Appoints Claus Thorsgaard as New CEO

by | May 5, 2021

Aarhus | May 5, 2021 – Luxion, the global leader in 3D rendering software for product design, today announced the appointment of Claus Thorsgaard as CEO for Luxion.

Claus Thorsgaard joins Luxion with extensive, international leadership experience, most recently as CEO at Conscia, a leading European provider of Security and IT infrastructure solutions. Prior to Conscia, Claus was Executive VP of Global Sales at Deltek, a leading global provider of software and cloud-based business systems based in the US. Claus Thorsgaard will bring deep global software experience to the existing Luxion leadership guiding the team in the next growth phase.

Claus Thorsgaard takes over as CEO from the co-founders, Claus and Henrik Wann Jensen, who have led the company since its inception in 2003. The organizational change will ensure that Henrik and Claus Wann Jensen can dedicate their focus on further developing the market-leading software for 3D product design rendering, KeyShot, which is used by more than 10,000 customers globally and sold by resellers across 80+ countries.

In connection with the announcement, Henrik Wann Jensen says, “We are very excited to have Claus lead the team at Luxion. His extensive and proven track record in leading, growing, and scaling global software organizations will be a strong asset to the company in the years to come.”

“Luxion is the undisputed global leader in advancing rendering and computer-based lighting simulation for product design. I am super excited to join a team that has demonstrated tremendous success over the years and established a very impressive list of well-known and loyal customers. Product innovation and customer focus will remain in focus in the coming years, where we expect to strengthen Luxion’s market position even further through double-digit growth and the introduction of a subscription-based business model,” says Claus Thorsgaard, appointed CEO.

New Board Members
In addition to the appointment of Claus Thorsgaard as CEO, Luxion also appoints Torben Brandt Munch as chairman and Mikael Boyum as an ordinary member of the Luxion Board of Directors. Both bring vast experience from international software companies: Torben Brandt Munch is former CEO at Itiviti, a leading provider of trading and connectivity technology to the capital markets industry and serves as chairman in several GRO Capital portfolio companies, and Mikael Boyum is CEO at Boyum IT Solutions, a global leader in manufacturing, warehousing, and usability software solutions in the SAP Business One ecosystem.

“Claus has more than 25 years of experience from the IT industry, hereof almost 10 years in the US, which is currently our biggest market. His reputation for relentless dedication to customer success, strong commercial drive, and people-oriented leadership qualities makes him the ideal person to lead the team in the next phase of Luxion’s growth journey and I very much look forward to the partnership”, comments Torben Munch, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Luxion.

About Luxion
Luxion is the global leader in product design rendering software. Thousands of companies around the globe use Luxion’s main product, KeyShot, for a multitude of use cases, including creating visualizations and photorealistic representations of detailed 3D models, preparing materials and textures ahead of production, uploading of interactive product visualizations, 3D animations, and many more. Founded in 2003, Luxion has offices in Denmark and the US, more than a hundred resellers across the globe, and a global footprint with a large portfolio of blue-chip customers including the likes of Google, Microsoft, Logitech, Motorola, Sonos, Procter & Gamble, etc. For further information please visit www.luxion.com and www.keyshot.com.

Contact:
Henrik Wann Jensen, Co-founder of Luxion
Phone: +1 858 228 7352

Claus Thorsgaard, CEO Luxion
Phone: +45 2535 2312

Torben Brandt Munch, Chairman, Luxion Board of Directors
Phone: +45 2223 4789