The Company

Inn-Westh ApS was founded in 2015 to manage the interest Steen Westh Nielsen owned in a Nearshore Software Development company in which Steen was at that time CEO. In 2019, it exited from investment in that company and focused on investment in established listed and unlisted companies. In addition to offering management consulting, it is now concentrating on the Start-Up segment both as an “Angel” Invetor and with venture capital. The owners of Inn-Westh ApS are Steen westh Nielsen (50%) and his wife (50%).

Steen Westh-Nielsen

Steen is a Danish entrepreneur and business mentor with over 35 years’ experience as a CEO and Board Member. After qualifying as a lawyer in Copenhagen, he took up business soon after leaving university, becoming a CEO while he was still in his mid-30s.

For 35 years or so he was the CEO in companies in many countries. Following 10 years as CEO of manufacturing companies, he moved into the IT sector. For the next 25 years he ran companies in Denmark, Germany, and the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Today Steen is active as a Management Consult and as an investor, with a special interest in the SME and start-up segments, looking for enterprises with the potential for growth where he, as an active investor, can make a difference.

Activities and Services

  • Investment in listed and unlisted companies, and also investment both as an ‘Angel’ Investor and with venture capital with a particular interest in start-up enterprises.
  • Management consulting based on Steen Westh-Nielsen’s experience and Special Competencies.

Steen’s Special Competencies

  • Management – more than 35 years as an active CEO in companies with up to 300 or more employees.  
  • Growth: Starting an IT company abroad from scratch (Steen was its first employee) and growing it into a successful and profitable international company with over 300 employees.
  • The IT Business – 25 years working as CEO in the IT industry – in Denmark, Germany, and the Central Europe.
  • International Sales/Marketing – in Europe, the Far East, and the USA; with additional experience of the Middle East including Turkey.
  • Finance – an area in which Steen has always been deeply involved
  • HR – including 7 years as a Board Member of an external consulting company.
  • Board Member – many years’ experience on the boards of holding companies and their subsidiaries, and also as a non-executive director of external companies.