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Stockholm County, Sweden

Mingla enables better and deeper meetings at events - the days when social gatherings were for extroverts only is over

I coach a batch of startups in SSE Busines Lab's Incubate program, helping them navigate the myriad of challenges startups face: Product-market fit, GTM, funding, building teams, and the number one challenge - focusing on the right things!

At blq Invest we are not just investors. We are company builders, rolling up our sleeves to help our portfolio companies grow from start-ups to scale-ups. I head up blq's operational work, and collaborate with the founders and management of the companies to ensure we scale the business the best way possible. So I get to combine being an entrepreneur with.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Drivhuset aims to help university students become entrepreneurs, supporting them with coaching and tools to build start-ups whilst they are studying. As a board member, I advise Drivhuset with experience on how to build the organisation and be able to support the students even more.

Berghs is in my opinion at the forefront of learning and pedagogy in Sweden, and as a member of their advisory board my role is to bring an EdTech perspective!

Stockholm, Sweden

Kognity aims to drastically improve learning for 1.5bn students globally - I'm therefore heading up a new function to build the long term foundation for this by developing strategies, partnerships, and relationships with key external stakeholders and markets. I am also responsible for cultivating awareness about the impact we are having, and our ideas on.

I am responsible for the revenue function of Kognity globally, both for new business as well as recurring customers. With customers in over 70 countries, and growing a team to 20+ people, my role is focused on developing Kognity's business strategies, long term planning, leading the Sales team and the team members' development, and ensuring our customers.

Stockholm, Sweden

Kognity brings the digital textbook to IB schools worldwide. I head up Business Development for Asia, Europe and the Middle East, formulating strategies and product offerings to implement our digital textbooks at schools in these regions.

London, United Kingdom

I advise institutional clients, both Long-Only and Hedge Funds, how to invest in Asia based on Morgan Stanley’s research and my own idea generation. Key skills include analyzing Asian companies, industries, and economies, formulating a clear investment idea based on that analysis, and communicating that to clients in a succinct and effective manner in.

Shanghai City, China

Worked within the Marketing department for China, specifically with the financial and analytical functions

Gothenburg, Sweden

I worked as a division controller, thereby working closely with analyzing financial situations and procedures. I created a standardized model on how to analyze and quantify price deviations between the invoice and the purchasing order, and proposed how to make lump sum processes more efficient.

Master Of Science (Msc), Economics

Activities and Societies: Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program, Project China, Vice President of Social Committee, Committee for Equal.

Mandarin

Full-time Mandarin studies to improve my languages skills