Carl Westman Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

ARC Power is the leading off-grid and on-grid distributed renewable energy developer in East and Southern Africa. The Company is now leveraging on the experience and track record it has developed in Rwanda and Mozambique to scale rapidly and bring affordable, reliable and clean distributed, first time power to communities across the continent, initially focusing on East and Southern Africa. As CFO Carl leads the the global finance team responsible for capital raising and allocation, finance operations and risk management and FP&A. Carl manages a team of finance professionals across 4 countries. Main responsibilities include:- Lead the global finance team, overseeing capital raising, financial operations, risk management,and FP&A across multiple countries.- Developed a comprehensive financial strategy aligned with corporate goals to support thecompany's rapid expansion.- Managed stakeholder relations and successfully navigated complex financial landscapes to securefunding.- Implemented real-time financial reporting dashboards to monitor performance and facilitateinformed decision-making.

Investment Companies founded by Stefan Krook, Karl-Johan Persson and FAM (Wallenberg) managing a diverse portfolio of entrepreneur led companies with a tilt towards early stage growth companies.Reponsible for managing and developing a portfolio of companies often acting as a entrepreurial and financial partner to founders and management and sometimes going into board roles.

Stockholm, Se

ArchMatch aims to make it easier, more inspiring, and safer to find quality-assured architects, interior designers, and landscape designers.

Investment company/Family Office managing a diversified portfolio of private and public equities, corporate bonds, hedge funds and real estate.Some early stage Investments include:* Klarna* Kivra * Tessin* Hemma* Hexicon* O/O Brewing* Sigmastocks

Co-founding Investor. Chairman. Advisor to entrepreneurs.Supported raise of total ~20mkr of equity and debt financing to build new production plant. Now profitable growing business.

Norrmalm, Stockholm County, Se

Went into board with main mission to find and guide company to a new majority owner ready and willing to take the company to the next level, this was acheived when Trill Invest invested and took a majority ownership.

Stockholm, Se

Hemma is on a mission to help businesses close the data gap and power home energy transition at scale

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

* Part of executive management team.* Finding, researching and developing new business opportunities, potential acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships. Responsible for total deal lifecycle from sourcing, business case, contract negotiations, deal execution and operationalizing.* Developing and executing on growth strategies and aligning the organization with strategies.* Building and maintaining relationship with strategic customers, suppliers and partners and engaging them in new business opportunities.* Building and maintaining relationships with swedish start-up community, primarily within fintech space.* Supporting sales and account management in business development initiatives.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

* Part of executive management.* Developing, maintaining and prioritizing strategic product roadmap.* Ensuring organisational alignment and frequent product evangelism within organization.* Management of team of product owners and project managers.* Overall responsible for product development and product operations.* Grew product team from 0 to 4 people and supported growth of tech team from 2 to 25 people.* Supporting sales, business development and account management on strategic customers, suppliers and partners.* Sourcing strategic partners and suppliers * Responsible for payment service, part of risk management team and highly involved in ensuring compliance to payment service regulations. Lead early iterations with payment service licensing with Swedish Financial Services Authority (FI) (first Registered payment service and then Payment Institute Licensing)

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

* Part of executive management team* Oversaw finance and accounting operations. Outsourced accounting and took back in 2015 after hiring internal accountant.* Financial reporting to management, board and investors* Funding, raised a total of approximately 150MKR (~17MUSD) in equity funding* M&A acquired swedish largest competitor * Budgeting and financial modelling* Business cases, pricing and support int business development initiatives.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Responsible for market and business intelligence on Swedish and Nordic Consumer Finance market. Responsibilites included macroeconomic analysis, competitor and product analysis, tracking of consumer and market trends, market research, product and business development. Responsibilities entailed a high degree of reporting and presenting to senior and C-level executives on local market level as well as on a nordic and EMEA level.

Stockholm, Se

Reported to CEO.Part of team responsible for product and business development of Klarnas e-commerce payment solutions. Worked close to sales and merchant integration department with selling and tailoring product to meet customer needs. Part of the team that focused on the new markets as part of an aggressive European expansion plan. Product owner in several IT-developement teams with between 4 and 7 developers working in agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. Resposibilities included product backlog management, stakeholder management and reporting to C-level executives.

Internship and thesis writing at IKEA group global HQ. Thesis focused on GTM strategies for B2B Sales Finance products within 5 european markets. Recieved highest possible mark for the thesis.

Bachelors Of Business Administration And Economics, Finance, Data Analysis And Statstics

Nanodegree Frontend Developer, Frontend Development

Intro To Programming, Fullstack Development, Cloud Development, Python, Css, Html, Javascript, Sql

Finance, Operations Management, Human Resources, Mathematics

International Baccalaureate, Economics, Physics, Mathematics, English, Spanish, History