FUTURE OF GOVERNANCE.

Anna Mossberg is an experienced board professional, currently serving on the boards of leading companies including Swisscom, Swedbank and Ringier.

She brings a strong background from some of the world’s most influential technology companies, including Google and Deutsche Telekom, with extensive experience at the intersection of business, technology and strategy.

Katarina Bonde is one of Sweden’s most experienced board professionals, with an extensive track record as both Chair and board member in Sweden and internationally. With a long career spanning both the US and Europe, she brings deep experience across technology, investments and corporate governance, particularly in companies navigating growth, change and transformation.

Today, she serves as Chair of Powercell Group and Mentimeter, and as a board member of companies including ATG, Viaplay Group and Mycronic. She is also member of Nasdaq Stockholm Listing Committee.

Marianne is a Swedish-qualified lawyer, English solicitor, and partner at DLA Piper. She advises on M&A, joint ventures, corporate governance and cross-border transactions, as well as banking and finance with extensive experience in project financing, real estate financing and green finance.

She also advises on cross-border matters involving China, including transactions shaped by the evolving geopolitical and regulatory landscape.

President Nasdaq Stockholm & Head of European Listings & Capital Markets, Nasdaq

Adam Kostyál has been with Nasdaq for the more than 20 years. He currently is the President of Nasdaq Stockholm and also manages the Listing franchise for Nasdaq in Europe. This includes the Nasdaq Stockholm, Nasdaq Copenhagen, and Nasdaq Helsinki listing offering. In addition he also manages the listing offering for Nordic companies wanting to list or dual list in the US.

Prior to his current role Adam held various positions within Nasdaq and prior to this with Cell Network, Bloomberg and Enron. He holds a B.A in Economics and Marketing from Vrije Universiteit, Bruxelles, and speaks four languages including English, Swedish, Italian and French.

Emily Merrell is AVP, Governance Solutions at Nasdaq, where she works with boards, company secretaries, and governance leaders across EMEA on the adoption of technology to improve board effectiveness, decision-making, and governance outcomes. Emily advises organisations on governance transformation, digital governance, and the responsible use of AI, helping leaders balance innovation with accountability and oversight.

James Beasley, Head of Board Advisory, EMEA, Nasdaq, is a governance and board effectiveness specialist who leads Board Advisory for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Nasdaq, partnering with executive teams to enhance strategic leadership and governance performance across global organisations.

With more than a decade of experience,
James previously led governance advisory work at Deloitte, supporting boards on effectiveness and transformation, and has a strong track record of international thought leadership and speaking engagements. He holds a Master’s degree in Global Governance and Ethics from University College London and is highly regarded for his expertise in corporate governance and boardroom excellence.

Malin Lindfors Speace is CEO and Senior Advisor at Ethos, a boutique sustainability advisory firm. With over 25 years of experience in sustainable business development, Malin is engaged to lead complex transformation projects across global organisations and value chains – from strategy in the boardroom to implementation throughout the business.

Malin has particularly deep expertise in defence, industry and infrastructure, spanning private companies, publicly listed corporations and public sector organisations. She has led strategic initiatives, change management programmes, and executive management and board processes, focusing on translating sustainability into commercial opportunities, investment decisions and competitive advantage.

Chair of the Board, Löfbergs

Kathrine Löfberg has coffee in her veins. She is Chair of the Board at Löfbergs, one of the Nordic region’s largest family-owned coffee roasters, founded in 1906 by her great-grandfather.

Kathrine has served on boards in Sweden and internationally, with a focus on sustainable growth, long-term value creation and values-driven organisations.

In 2019, Kathrine was awarded the prestigious Guldklubban (The Golden Gavel) for outstanding chairship.

Maria Hedengren has over 30 years of experience leading and developing international technology companies and 15 years of board experience. She currently serves on the boards of Mips, Smart Eye and Scila, bringing extensive expertise in corporate governance and audit committee work.

Her board experience spans both publicly listed and privately held companies, from startups to mature businesses, with ownership structures ranging from founder-led and venture capital-backed companies to institutional ownership.

Henrik von Sydow is a global affairs strategist at DNB Carnegie Investment Bank, working closely with companies, investors and entrepreneurs on geopolitics, capital markets and strategic decision-making in an increasingly complex world.

A former Member of the Swedish Parliament, he brings extensive experience at the intersection of politics, economics and business, helping leaders navigate global developments and their implications for business strategy.

Christopher Lyrhem is a future research analyst and entrepreneur focused on how disruptive innovation transforms society over time. With 18 years on his career resume, primarily within equity research and portfolio management at SEB, he has conducted countless of research pieces on companies, markets, and technologies. 

Today, Christopher is the founder and CEO of Disruptivity, a company with the mission to making streaming intelligence and simulation accessible for any business leader wanting to better understand their market, future, and optimal strategy. He’s also the creator of Disruptivity Times, the world’s first newspaper from the future, is a Venture Partner for Sparkmind Capital, and recently published his book General Theory of Disruptivity. Christopher loves to blend history, markets, and technologies, and distil theses about the future for curious minds.

Gustaf Brandberg is General Partner in his family office Gullspång Invest and in Re:food Invest, a transatlantic growth equity investor investing in category changing companies in AgriFood.

He has been working in corporate boards for 30 years and currently serves on the board of Matsmart, and was recently nominated for the Guldklubban award for his work as chair of Nick's.

Business leader, chair, board director, investor, and advisor with more than 25 years of international experience of building and scaling companies across industries, markets, and stages of growth.

She has held senior leadership positions at some of the world's most recognised technology and consumer brands, including Spotify as Global Head of Markets, LEGO Ventures as President, Nasdaq, Ericsson, Swedbank, and Leia Inc. as CEO.

Today, Cecilia serves as Chair of Apotea and board member of Embracer Group, alongside several advisory roles spanning various sectors that use technology to solve real-world problems. She is known for combining commercial rigour with curiosity about the future, bringing perspectives on how leadership, organisations, and society must evolve as technology continues to reshape the business landscape.

Experienced investor, board professional and business leader with extensive expertise in corporate governance, strategic transformation and sustainable growth.

Susanna is Chair and Co-founder of Syre and has held board positions at companies including Kinnevik, Indutrade, Northvolt and Stegra. Previously CEO of Ratos, she brings deep experience in investment, business development and scaling innovative companies, with a particular focus on industrial transformation and long-term value creation.

Johan A Eriksson is an engineer, entrepreneur, author and advisor. For many years he served as a leader at Google across many different areas of specialism. He is currently the Chief Technology and Product Officer of Swedish public service television company (SVT).

Johan also co-owns a handful of companies, all with the ambition of being net positive to society. Johan optimizes his life and society for sustainable wellbeing and is the creator of wellbeingroad.com amongst other initiatives.

Peter Kurzwelly works at the intersection of AI, strategy and business transformation, helping leaders and boards navigate technological change and create long-term business value.

With expertise in responsible AI adoption, organisational development and strategic innovation, he supports organisations in building the capabilities and structures needed to successfully integrate AI.

His work focuses on turning emerging technologies into scalable business opportunities while strengthening leadership, governance and long-term competitiveness.

Emma Norburg has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on capital markets matters and public and private transactions.

Emma has extensive experience advising issuers, financial advisers, investors and other market participants, both in Sweden and internationally, on a wide range of transactions and market activities, including public takeovers, initial public offerings (IPOs), share offerings, mergers, restructurings, as well as complex corporate law and corporate governance matters.

Anna Berntorp advises listed companies and other businesses operating in regulated industries. She works across a broad range of regulatory and compliance matters, with a primary focus on capital markets law, corporate law and foreign direct investment (FDI).

Anna leads DLA Piper Sweden’s ESG advisory practice, helping clients navigate new and complex sustainability regulations. She has a particular focus on corporate governance and extensive experience in matters relating to board work, general meetings, shareholder matters, remuneration and incentive programmes.

Dennis Fagerros has over 12 years of experience in financial markets and strong ties to the stock exchange. Following several roles at Nordnet, where he was also involved in the company’s listing on Nasdaq Stockholm in 2020, he now works as IPO Director at Nasdaq. In this role, he works closely with companies and owners preparing for an IPO and contributes to the development of the IPO market and its broader ecosystem.

His experience provides valuable insights into the preparations required for a company to become ready for a stock exchange listing.

Josefine Lagerqvist is Head of Listing Qualifications at Nasdaq Stockholm, where she and her team are responsible for the regulatory review of companies seeking a listing on Nasdaq.

With a background in law, she has worked at Nasdaq for five years. Prior to this, she gained experience across various parts of the financial markets through roles at a securities firm, a law firm, Deloitte and the Swedish Shareholders’ Association (Aktiespararna).

Jeanette Jäger is a board member and former CEO with more than 12 years of board experience. She is Chair of Ebbot, a privately held AI-native service automation company, and serves on the Board and Audit Committee of Telia Company. She previously served on the board of ICA Gruppen and chaired UC AB.

She was Group CEO of Enento Group, listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, and CEO of Bankgirot, Sweden’s national payment infrastructure. Her experience spans listed and privately held companies and includes profitable growth, mergers and integration, building resilience, security and new data assets and insights.

Her career spans technology, telecom, financial services and retail, from the early internet to today’s AI transformation. A frequent speaker on AI and governance, Jeanette brings a board-level perspective on enabling innovation while strengthening accountability, resilience, sustainability and long-term value creation.

Peter Westford is Managing Partner and Co-founder of Navigio and Navigio Capital. With experience as an owner, Board Chair and Board Member of Swedish and American growth companies, he brings together the perspectives of owners, boards and executive management on business development and long-term value creation through effective board work.

At Navigio, Peter advises Board Chairs, owners and CEOs on strategy, leadership and corporate governance. He emphasises how clear owner expectations, the right competencies and trust-based collaboration create the conditions for turning strategic ambitions into results, and how boards can combine governance and oversight with actively contributing to a company's development.

Pontus Sellberg is a geopolitical analyst focused on global supply chains and trade. He helps companies and boards understand what geopolitics does to their business, and what to do about it. He shows what a change in trade policy, an export control or a disrupted supply chain does to margins, capital needs and risk, and what it means for business strategy, before it shows up in the numbers.

He has 20 years in financial services. At Danske Bank he built the bank's Swedish geoplitical analysis function from scratch in 2020, regularly briefing the management teams and boards of corporate clients. Today he works independently as an analyst and speaker.

Joel Nygårds is Chief Data Officer and Head of AI at Ericsson, driving the company’s enterprise data and AI agenda. He leads the development of AI governance, Responsible AI and data compliance, and regularly reports to the Board Audit & Compliance Committee.

With a background in strategy, operations and business transformation, Joel brings a practical perspective on scaling AI across a global organisation. His work connects AI adoption and business value with the accountability, risk management and oversight needed to support responsible innovation.

Thomas Ekman, founding partner and board director at 6GAi. Previously CEO at Axel Johnson, Dustin Group, Tele2 Sweden, Cabonline Group among others as well as chairman and board member at Axfood, Martin&Servera, Axinter, Dustin Group, Novax, Com Hem and Pierce Group.

Eva Axelsson is an executive advisor with over 25 years of experience in sustainability, geopolitics, corporate governance and strategic resilience. With a background spanning capital markets, defence, EU policy and global industry, she helps boards and executive teams navigate complexity and create long-term value.

As former Chief Sustainability Officer at Saab, she led the development of the company’s sustainability governance. She has also held senior roles in investment management and contributed to European industry initiatives on sustainability and security of supply.

Today, Eva advises boards, executive teams and investors on strategic resilience, responsible business and decision-making in complex environments.

Regina Sipos is a former CEO of companies operating in the social impact sector. Since 2017, she has dedicated herself full-time to board work. She currently serves as Chair of several companies within digital healthcare, cleantech, AI and sustaintech.

She also serves as a Board Member of larger companies, both publicly listed and privately owned. Regina believes that effective board work is characterised by proactivity, a high level of psychological safety in the boardroom and a strong team spirit.

Ludvig Strand is Head of Emerging Tech & AI at Axel Johnson, the fifth-generation family business behind Axfood, Dustin, Martin & Servera, Axinter and Novax, where he has lead the group’s strategic foresight on AI for the last seven years.

Much of his work now happens in the boardroom. Ludvig educates and supports Axel Johnson’s board in three areas: strengthening the strategic understanding of where AI reshapes the group’s businesses, balancing opportunity against risk, and supporting how the owner could govern and follow up AI in the boards of its companies. His premise is that boards don’t need to become technologists; they need to ask sharper questions, earlier. More and more, those questions are about how AI might change market logics and the very operating system of a business, and what it means for leadership.