Bio

CURRENT ° President & CEO, Greenfood Group & Picadeli Group – European leader within healthy and sustainable convenience food FORMER ° Member of Board of Directors, AoS Group – leading European retail chain in watches, jewelry & fashion jewelry ° Dep. President & CEO, AoS Group – Ibid. ° Chairman of the Board, Picadeli Group – Leading global take-away brand in healthy and sustainabe fast-food ° President & CEO, Candyking Group – Europe’s largest P&M confectionery company ° CEO Visma Retail – Nordic’s largest IT Retail company ° Management Consultant – Supporting PE on strategy formation, change, organizational dev., & operational efficiency ° Numerous Executive positions Fujitsu – World’s third largets IT/IS company ° PhD from SSE, Stanford University & Columbia Business School – Focus on value creation in PE owned companies ° Numerous board positions in public & private equity owned companies ° Research Leader at Stockholm School of Economics for a research project studying value creation in PE owned companies Brief description: ° International executive with vast experience from successfully leading and governing companies in change within a wide range of industries including Retail, FMCG, IS/IT, Logistics, Packaging, Paper & pulp, Health & Social services, Consultancy ° Unique background as action-oriented CEO/senior executive/management consultant as well as analytical PhD from some world leading institutions ° Highly committed, charismatic, & action-oriented leader with an exceptional and well-documented ability to unite people towards a common goal & with an extensive exposure to the PE industry from CEO positions, board positions, and as lead management consultant within 15+ cases ° Strong recurring track-record of vastly driving organic growth as well as decreasing & optimizing costs hence improving profitability extensively in both CEO & management consultant roles. Co-compounded 15+ 100-day plans & value creation plans in PE owned firms