Frederik Kehler

Luumo: Climate Insights That Drive Action | GHG Accounting, Decarbonization Roadmaps & Physical Climate Risks|Startup Advisor|SaaS Sales|Sales Leadership|Enterprise B2B Sales

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

About

I’m a commercial sales leader with over a decade of experience scaling SaaS and sustainability solutions across global markets. At South Pole, I guide go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, and sales enablement for Luumo, a tech-enabled advisory platform that helps corporates advance on GHG, CSRD, SBTi, and climate risk disclosure goals. From 2022–2024, I consistently exceeded sales targets and led complex enterprise SaaS engagements across Europe. My focus today is on building and leading sales teams, driving pipeline growth, and executing go-to-market strategies that deliver sustainable ARR expansion. My expertise sits at the intersection of technology and sustainability: - Sales Leadership - hiring, coaching, and enabling high-performing sales teams - Enterprise Sales - guiding multi-stakeholder negotiations and C-level engagement - Go-to-Market Execution - market entry, pipeline creation, and forecasting accuracy - SaaS & ESG Solutions - digital climate platforms, carbon markets, and reporting tools Earlier in my career, I worked with Apple, ISS, and Atea on marketing and digital strategy, and I’ve also founded and scaled ventures in SaaS and digital services - bringing a founder’s mindset to leadership, commercial strategy, and execution. I hold an MSc in Business/Corporate Communication from Copenhagen Business School, complemented by executive education in business, sales, and ESG from institutions including Oxford, Wharton, Yale, Duke, and INSEAD. I thrive in high-growth, cross-functional environments where leadership, structure, and commercial drive are essential.

Experience

  • South Pole (4 yrs)
    • Global Associate Director, Commercial & Business Development, Luumo
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      Associate Director, part of the Compliance & Digital Centre of Excellence. As a Global Associate Director at South Pole, I spearhead the commercial strategy for the digital platform 'Luumo', achieving +150% on sales quota consecutively for four years 2022-2025. My responsibilities included overseeing commercial efforts related to GHG emissions, Targets & Roadmap, CSRD Gap Analysis, and Physical Climate Risks on a global scale.

    • Global Commercial Lead, Luumo & Director Denmark
      Jan 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Commercially responsible for the strategy and global go-to-market of South Pole's digital platform called 'Luumo'. It's modules ranges across GHG emissions and accounting, Targets & Roadmap, CSRD Gap Analysis and Physical Climate Risks, making it a suite of tools to define and ensure progress on a company's climate journey towards net zero. +150% on sales quota 2022, 2023 & 2024

    • Senior Business Development Manager & Director Denmark - Digital Climate Solutions
      Aug 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Responsible for the deployment of South Pole's suite of digital solutions across the Nordics. Including bespoke decarbonization solutions for the e-commerce industry as well as but API products to measure and fund climate action projects, to achieve mitigation in and beyond company value chains. At South Pole, we work with businesses and governments across the globe to promote climate action. We help realize deep decarbonization strategies across sectors and industries, based on a thorough understanding of climate risks and opportunities, and according to the highest emission reduction standards. We also work with public entities, trusts, foundations, and NGOs to implement their climate strategies and identify opportunities to scale up climate impact.

  • Venture Capital Investment Competition Denmark (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Board Member
      Oct 2019 - May 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      After a few years in the VCIC organization, I was co-heading the Danish event as well as hosting the yearly event in Copenhagen, Denmark. VCIC has provided experience in many areas including event and stakeholder management within the venture capital community in the Nordics, startup scouting, funding strategy from public foundations and more.

    • Associate Director
      Oct 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Head of Brand
      Oct 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Commercial Co-founder - Large & Enterprise SaaS Sales at 21RISK
    Aug 2017 - Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Exited 2022. As a co-founder at 21RISK my responsibilities stretch across: enterprise sales, customer experience, account management, scaleable sales strategies, and marketing activities, as well as business development and fundraising positioning. At 21RISK we combine insurance data together with 21st-century technology, in order to achieve comparable and trackable risk-reducing efforts in production facilities.

  • Founder at E-NOVASION
    Nov 2010 - Jun 2017 · 6 yrs 8 mos

    Digital strategy, performance marketing & web development.