Current	Advisor - innovation and technical systems
Background	Managing director, CEO, at IPU (2007 – 2015) Professor in Design Methodology at the Technical University of Denmark (1999 – 2007) Director, head of section, at IPU (1996 – 1999) Senior consultant in design and innovation at IPU (1984 – 1996) Project engineer at: Polystan AS / Dansk Teknologi AS / Dept. of Fluid Dynamics (1975 – 1984) Graduated 1975 as M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark
Appointments	Member of the Board of the Alexander Foss Industrial Foundation (Alexander Foss’ Industrifond)
Awards	The STATOIL Award (STATOIL prisen) 1998 for significant research in technical science
Affiliations	Member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber, ATV)
Birth and Family	20 May 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Son of mother Anna Cathrine (nee Krøyer) and father Piet Hein Wife Lisbet Ellen Hein, sons Jens Hein (1982) and Niels Hein (1984)