New CTO at AquaGreen

We are pleased to announce that as of June 16th 2026, Rune Skovgaard-Petersen has assumed the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at AquaGreen. 

Rune joined AquaGreen in April 2025 as Chief Project Officer (CPO), where he held responsibility for project management, procurement, installation and service. In his new role, he takes overall responsibility for our technology organisation, including mechanical development and engineering, process, control and automation.

"We believe that Rune in his new role taking the full responsibility for our technology organisation is ideally positioned to lead our technology agenda forward as we scale internationally," says Thomas Nygaard Hamann, CEO of AquaGreen.

Rune brings extensive experience in technology leadership. As VP Technology at GEA Group, he headed Product Development and Engineering for one of the largest business units in one of the world's leading process technology companies. Prior to that, he worked as Head of Project Execution also at GEA since 2016. Before joining GEA, he first served as Director of Engineering and after that as CTO at Biogasol, responsible for technology development and commercialisation of next-generation biofuels process systems), scaling technology from university research at DTU to pilot and demonstration scale. Rune started his career in the brewery equipment industry, first as Project Manager and Design Engineer at Sander Hansen / Krones, and later as Head of Project Management at Krones.