On November 16, 2024, self-proclaimed vertical transportation(VT) nerds Caterina Anderson and Henrik Staal of Denmark tied the knot. Both work in the VT industry at Otis, with Staal having been with Otis for almost 30 years as a new equipment adjuster and Anderson starting her career at Otis in 2013 as a sales apprentice. The couple met at a Christmas party in Anderson’s first year at the company, and the rest is elevator industry history. In 2017, Anderson left Otis to work in sales and marketing at TKE, and a year later became an account manager in New Installation. Anderson still sells escalators and elevators at TKE and couldn’t love her job more, which is why she’s deemed herself the “Elevator Girl” in permanent ink, alongside TKE tattoos.
After Anderson won TKE’s sales cup of 2023 for selling the most escalators in the Nordic countries, the engaged couple thought it would be a fun homage to their shared interest to put an escalator on their wedding cake. Using a retirement cake as inspiration, Anderson and Staal commissioned Bake My Day in Copenhagen to create a wedding cake that did not surprise their colleagues but did make them laugh. When ELEVATOR WORLD asked about their future in VT, Anderson said:
“Once you’re in it — you are usually a lifer. I personally have the TKE logo, an escalator and an elevator tattooed on my leg, ‘elevator girl’ on my arm and elevator buttons on my back. My spouse is not quite as crazy. [The industry] never stops evolving. Buildings will always need VT, and there is something special about being somewhere and telling people that you built this or sold them that.”
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