Jacob Stedman is the CEO of Blykalla (Leadcold), a Swedish start-up changing the way small modular reactors are built. He is an entrepreneur that founded his first startup at age 16, and was part of popularising e-commerce in Sweden in the ’90s. He has more than 10 years of experience running start-ups and scale-ups, and has broad functional expertise, ranging from sales to product development. Jacob also spent 6 years with McKinsey & Co as a consultant, where he worked with clients across Europe and Asia/Australia, focusing on electricity production and climate change. After that, he served as acting CEO for Reach for Change, a foundation associated with the Kinnevik Group that supports social entrepreneurs in 18 countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Most recently, Jacob was co-founder and CEO for 3+ years for Platform24 Healthcare AB, the leading white-label telemedicine platform in the enterprise segment in the Nordics. Jacob graduated from Stockholm School of Economics is 2007, has a parallel degree from Stockholm University, and is a self-taught programmer who competed successfully internationally on Sweden's national computer science team in high school. He is an experienced public speaker with a strong network, and currently serves on the boards of Stiftelsen Friends and IKEA Foundation's Better Shelter.