As a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, I contribute to shaping the insights and strategies that guide global business leaders. My role involves collaborating with top experts to influence high-impact content on leadership, innovation, and emerging trends, enhancing my ability to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving business landscape.

I bring transformative guidance that empowers founders to break boundaries and achieve sustained growth. By providing strategic insights and a clear path forward, I help leaders unlock their full potential and turn ambitious visions into reality.* Driving impactful, strategic growth through clear, actionable insights* Empowering founders to overcome complex challenges with confidence* Inspiring resilience and innovation for long-term success* Delivering clarity and momentum to fuel bold, visionary goals

AI College Board of Director, leveraging extensive experience in AI, digital commerce and innovation to guide strategic decisions and foster technological advancement in education

As an Advisor and Expert at AlphaSights, I provide strategic insights and specialized knowledge to leading professionals across various industries worldwide. Leveraging over 28 years of experience in business development, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, digital commerce, and business growth, I empower clients to make informed decisions and achieve their organizational goals.Expert Consultations: Engage in high-impact consultations with blue-chip corporations, investment firms, and industry leaders, offering expertise on AI integration, digital transformation, and innovative business strategies.Strategic Insights: Deliver actionable advice on leveraging AI for business growth, enhancing customer experiences in digital commerce, and navigating complex market dynamics.Knowledge Partner: Collaborate closely with clients to understand their unique challenges and objectives, providing tailored solutions that drive measurable results.Thought Leadership: Contribute to AlphaSights' mission of providing frictionless access to expert knowledge, ensuring clients have the insights needed to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving business landscape.I am proud to be part of AlphaSights' global network, connecting with professionals who are shaping the future of their industries. Through our collaborative efforts, we unlock knowledge advantages that propel businesses forward, fostering innovation and sustainable growth.

As a partner with the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence Hub, I bring 29 years of experience in AI and strategic innovation to support the UAE Vision 2031. This collaboration focuses on empowering the UAE with future-ready strategies that drive resilience, sustainability, and growth across key sectors. By aligning strategic intelligence with the UAE’s goals, we enable impactful, forward-focused governance.* Applying advanced intelligence to shape innovative government strategies* Supporting sustainable growth in economy, society, and environment* Bridging global expertise with UAE objectives* Advancing the UAE Vision 2031 for a resilient, adaptable future

Business advisor for Coleman Research and their clients.

Working with Digital University as my speaker agent for the Middle East and Poland.The Digital University is an amazing speaker bureau and provider of experts withing business educational initiatives.

Empower enterprises with business advisory services that help their businesses develop and grow.

Empowering companies as a business advisor and mentor to support them grow and to untangle bottlenecks that keep them from rapidly scaling their business.Listed as one of the worlds TOP30 Business Coaches 2022

With a background in helping global companies to scale their business, to improve efficiency and identify bottle necks within seemingly well oiled organizations, Karl will improve your way of thinking. But also challenge your way of working and the way you address your everyday work life, always moving forward to reach seemingly impossible goals.Schedule a free session with Karl to talk about in what way he can improve your event or organization as a keynote speaker, a workshop session to identify current bottlenecks. But also to make you understand what lies ahead of you based on the decisions you make today.Visit https://www.karllillrud.com/

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Award winning professional speaker, businesses coach and mentor within online business, e-commerce, omnichanel and customer centric growth.With 25 years of experience within this field I have now been named one of the worlds TOP 50 Ecommerce Speakers, Top 50 E-Commerce experts and TOP 30 E-Commerce influencers.

Working with GLG as an expert council member to advice organizations on growth and strategies to improve their market cap

On the board of directors for Jensen Education IPKS, making sure that the Jensen Education program aligns and have a competitive edge with the current and future requirements in the real work life for their students.

Teacher for a large group of students online on the topic of e-commerce and future commerce.The lectures was focusing on how to run and grow your company and how to expand existing large and global online organizations.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Working as a Professional Virtual, Hybrid, and Live Keynote Speaker.With focus on the topic of generating fast-growing companies with the use of Digital Commerce, the future of e-commerce and retail.

Professional speaker working with WCD where I work directly with high profile speaker events all over the world.We perform keynote presentations, workshops, growth forums and tailored events to fit the clients needs.

Driving the subscriber growth squad/team based on OKRs, KRs and the growth goals for the company.• Migration project to implement Salesforce and Hubspot • Experimentation and split (a/b) testing• Datadriven logical development prioritization• Optimize conversion• Pricing, product offer and strategy. • Sales funnel optimization using Salesforce and HubSpot • OKR and KRs

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Product Manager at Volvo Cars. Enabling the next generation of experience using digital commerce for Volvo Cars• Configuration engine• Product catalog• PIM • API• Data ownership

Product Manager at Volvo Cars• Data logics engine• Rules engine • Cluster framing • Intuitive data driven growth funnels• Product offered • OKR and KRs

Creating the next generation of consumer insight for retail offline and online.Building the platform for future Digital Commerce.• Data driven • Retail customer journey• App driven engagement• Online engagement triggering offline transactions• Align the organization around a common goal • Current state and future vision• Digital growth• Consumer analytics• Problem scope

Project owner with the responsibility to define, own and drive product vision, strategy and metrics .• Automation • RFQ processing • Purchasers and manufacturers• ISO standards • Manufacturing industry with a focus on European growth

Infrastructure management consultant, business coach and mentor.Focus on securing and improving the infrastructure for business-critical systems and applications.Find new and innovative solutions to complex problems outside the box.• Project manager• Team leader• Agile methods• Mentor• Business coach

Synergy Group is a platform for entrepreneurs to make them reach further than what they can do on their own.Created to challenge and empower each other and gain new energy and inspiration.Within the platform that is located in Marbella, Spain, we have three programs:Synergy Invest - Pitch training, mentoring and pitching to our board of investors, organized monthly .Synergy Accelerate - The program that will help you and your startup run faster than ever before. A one month program for the founders of the company.Synergy Room - Entrepreneurial hub / workplace for people who want to do more with their lives and the ventures they build

Analysing and improving current conversion model with data-driven approach to implement improved payment solutions.• Conversion optimization• Checkout • Improved customer alignment• Target markets• Consumer centric • Data-driven conversion optimization• MiFID 2• Local market segmentation and analytics

Fintech company in Sweden.Driving complex challenges and initiating changes to build a more scalable product offer.Related to regulations, legalities and licenses to make sure that all is prepared for the planned rapid growth state up on launching their new product offer.• Identify opportunities and bottlenecks• Strategic goals and drive the Product initiative to • Coach and strengthen teams • Transformation and navigate complex organizational challenges• MiFID 2• GDPR

Secure Payment industry expert researcher for Qliro, driving the innovation and future proofing of Qliro.• Market expansion strategy • Payment platforms • Decision matrix for upper management • Vision and roadmap• Budget• Consumers analytics and expectations• Agile growth strategy• Workshops• Multilevel product offer• Future regulatory requirements

Building up a new sales area based on the environmental requirements and expectations within EU.From a "blank paper" creating the target, model and framework to become 100% CO2 Neutral by 2030.It's built on an innovation framework together with close collaboration with key customers.• Business Value• Process Improvement• Product Strategy• Business Analytics• Aligning with expectations• Minimizing pressure on current delivery• Map out bottlenecks • Strategy design• 100% circular, environmentally friendly business

Development of the new French TV news channel #C You using smart distribution strategies and a combination of platforms to design for viral growth. • Video streaming • News platform with viewer interaction and opinion research tools. • Large team based in multiple European countries• Privacy protection

With 23 years of experience, I'm writing about the future challenges for E-commerce companies in the Swedish magazine "Driva eget" translated to "Running your own business", a great entrepreneurial magazine targeting all the entrepreneurial Swedes.

TEDx PiotrkowskastreetLocation: Poland 🇵🇱 Theme: Another perspectiveSpeaking about how to make use of your subconscious mind and sharing the tools to make better use of your capacity, sleep better and work smarter.I tell my story about how I, as a small child already had found the path that I liked to follow, the entrepreneurial path.TEDx Kedge BSLocation: France 🇫🇷 Theme: Outside the norm Speaking about making the impossible possible and why we even walk around using the word impossible.Sharing the tools with you, to make you reach further and making it possible

As the Product Manager, I was responsible for defining the why, when, and what of the product that the engineering and data scientist team build. Lead the team from a product's conception all the way through to the launch of the Klarna Credit Card. Defining product vision and strategy.As the Accountable Lead I made sure that we deliver what we say and when we say, making sure the team is aligned and that the dependencies deliver what we need on time to complete the product.But also protecting the team from external impact and change or tampering with what's in scope.* Budget* Scope* Team leader* Capacity* Project plan* Agile / Scrum

As the Accountable Lead I made sure that we deliver what we say and when we say, making sure the team is aligned and that the dependencies deliver what we need on time to complete the product.But also protecting the team from external impact and change or tampering with what's in scope.* Budget* Team review* Vision / mission* Scope

Project manager for the OmniChannel project based on the Vlocity platform for the Nordic countries. The goal was to build a cross-channel approach where customers that interact with the e-commerce site could go to any of the other streams (retail, call center and more) to change their order, profile and get same information and pricing to improve the customer experience.Running several POC´s to identify possibilities and limitations in the chosen platform to build the best possible OmniChannel experience for the customers.• Vlocity project manager• SalesForce• OmniChannel• EPiServer

Consultant assignment to identify and analyze the pain points with the company’s websites in the Nordic countries.Working throughout the organization to gather data and intel about all parts of the website and the e-commerce site with the goal to improve the site and increase online sales.• E-Commerce analyst• Online conversion expert• Consumer behaviour expert

Monumentum är ett kunskapsföretag som erbjuder konsulttjänster för affärs- och IT-utveckling.​Våra medarbetare har erfarenhet inom försäkring, finans, transport/fordonsindustrin, sjukvård, retail, och energi - med i snitt 20 års erfarenhet.​Vi tar oftast roller där vi är membranet mellan IT och verksamhet - då vi driver digitalisering, ledning och affärsintegration, ofta med delleveranser inom systemutveckling och arkitektur.

Store Clerk, the solution to increasing sales online.A Silicon Valley-based startup to solve the growing problem with online sales.Scaling up globally with targeting the largest e-commerce platforms and thousands of stores using it to collect data about their visitor's behavior as they browse the site and why they don't become paying customers.

Lizer Group focuses on analyzing and understanding consumer behavior and why only a fraction of the visitors to e-commerce sites decide to make a purchase.With smart data and automated personalized customer interaction methods using machine learning, Lizer Group helps thousands of stores around the world to increase customer satisfaction and conversion dramatically."With smart data and machine learning, you can spend less money on attracting customers and increase your long-term conversion" - Karl LillrudLizer Group is the company behind the products Store Clerk and Pricelizer.

Project manager for a large business critical e-commerce project. Hybris platform built to scale on multiple markets.Nearshore team devided into three countries

Pricelizer.com, an automatic price monitoring and alert tool.Pricelizer.com is a web app and browser plugin that track price changes on the products you like. We monitor any product in any store online and will work like a social network where you can share your list and follow other users lists and there find new and interesting things.We welcome you to the future of online window shopping.Signup for your free beta account now at http://www.pricelizer.com

Project manager for several projects as:Office 365 migration E3 and E1Hosted to Azure migrationHosted exchange to Office 365Purchasing and deploying new computers for the entire Swedish organization

Revalizer is the B2B solution built to use the engine designed and developed by PricelizerDont throw your customers away.By using Revalizer you will increase your sales and decrease your abandoned carts.Revalizer is the only real solution to the largest problem for eCommerce sites and with our multiple tools combined you will see that we increase the customer experience and build a whole new type of customer satisfaction with personalized communication.

Spotify for Business expansion project. Building up processes and Operations strategy.

StartupBy.com is a news site where new early-stage start-up companies are published every day.Created for every one that wants to know about the latest and soon to be greatest innovative start-up companies and for the startup community to easier reach out with your start-up´s to the audience.

Client wanted to expand their online sales to multiple countries and the support functions needed large expansions to meet the increased demand.• Project manager for Infra• Project manager for Development• Project manager for Operations• Multiple project resources• Multiple teams in multiple countries• Multiple countries• Budget• Tight time plan• AVAYA• PPSFurther project details can’t be disclosed.

The project details can not be disclosed.• Budget• RFI• RFP• PPS• Team resources• Multiple countries

The client planned to expand to China for online sales.I where assigned the project as the IT IO Project manager• Budget• RFI• RFP• PPS• Team resources• Implementation• Infrastructure• Infrastructure design

Migration from Telia Centrex to Implementation of Verizon combox in all H&M stores and offices, Monki, Weekdays, and Cheep Monday globally. • Cisco UC• Team resources• Multiple sites and cities• PPS

The client wanted to expand there online sales to France, Italy and Spain and the project involved building up a Contact Center scaled for 300 agents in a country in Europe• Building• Infrastructure design• Designing new standards• PPS

Project manager for the development project of H&M´s Mobile devices UC platform.

Decommission of existing Telia Centrex solution.Migration to and Implementation of Unified communication at all Monki,Weekday and Cheap monday offices in Sweden

Project information is not to be shown to the general public.

Project manager for a disaster recovery project within H&M IT at the Operations Division.Identify weaknesses and implement a disaster prevention program.Facilitate effective co-ordination of recovery tasks; and reduce the complexity of the recovery effort.Providing management with a comprehensive understanding of the total effort required to develop and maintain an effective recovery plan.Defining recovery requirements from the perspective of business functions;Developing a disaster recovery plan that is understandable, easy to use and easy to maintain.

Technical system responsible at the Operations division.Planning of technical resources for OFS - Order Follow-up System (The most important systems in the H&M's purchasing process).Responsible for a server environment of 100 physical and virtual servers located in countries, with users connecting in from more than 23 countries.Actively promote a safer operating status of the environment, improvements and cost-efficient use of servers.Used to working with the detail of information flows and be able to see patterns and structures that form the basis for the architecture that supports business requirements.Actively work with the modeling of business processes, information flows and logical structures including MS Visio, Mind Manager, MS Project.Tasks such as project management, coordination, requirements, development of procedures and processes.Operate and develop the DR routine and redundant server environment that spreads over 13 countries and their server infrastructure to ensure that the SLA and OLA met.Responsible for the planning of activities and incident management for the application operations team including both HW and SW areas.Responsible for the queue manager in the OFS works.Experience of integration with different types of information sources.Knowledge of security, and classification of information.Team Leader for OFS application operations team.• Technical solution responsible• IT - Architect• Team leader• Project manager• SLA• OLA• Project management• Budget• Expansion project • Contingency project

Project manager for expanssion of 9 new production offices for H&M in 9 APAC countries

Server and application technician at the Development division, for three systems:• OFS - Order Follow-up System (The most important systems in the H & M's purchasing process).• CoC - Code of Conduct• SPUR - System for dealing with suppliers and that they meet the requirements.Operation, management and planning of a server environment of 140 servers located in 10 countries.Actively developed a more secure operating status of the environment.Tasks such as the development of procedures and processes in various groupings such as VMWare, Storage, Operations and Development.

Subcontractor at ZeroChaos formerly known as Madeo Sourcing Group AB.

Future Planning Project to secure and streamline work for the coming years as infrastructure management consultant.

SEO Analysis of websites in a new way with feedback function to guide clients to an SEO optimized website.Innovative thinking about marketing online making it possible for large and small companies to analyze their appearance online.

Brf Sländan 9 is a housing cooperative, consisting of home-owner flats, in Central region of Stockholm, Sweden. The board/management team consist of 5 people, each with his or her own role. Each of the fully owned flats, judicially owns a corresponding share of the housing cooperative, bases on the respective size of each flat.

Systems Development Specialist / Infrastructure Manager.The project included elements such asAnalysis of existing e-commerce platformOffshore outsourcing of development and operation.The daily work consisted of tasks such as:Lead external development team at Offshore outsourcing partner.Be a leader and participate in the technical solution.Responsible for budget, personnel and development.Responsible for specialist project management, development and implementation.MySQL, Exchange migration.Migration from the standard e-commerce platform to the new proprietary platform.As a result, I have experience in queue management and XML technologies, and that they always worked to build scalable systems in global environments with high performance demands.I have great personal interest in working structured and kept regular progress and project meetings.Experience of integration work in bought-standard and proprietary solutions.Offshore outsourcing, project management, concept development and prioritization coordinator.Unique SEO development on and off-site.GUI design and layout.The company worked with selling high quality modern furniture and design with suppliers and customers worldwide.Technical: • Windows Server 2008• Windows Server 2003• MySQL• PHP• SEO• ExchangeRoles:• IT-Architect• Project manager• System responsible

A member of the infrastructure management consultants team.IT architects and project managers within the infrastructure track.Focus area where virtualization and System Center products.• Infrastructure management consultant

Specialist Consultants PtoP used was towards new potential clients to tie business. There, after acting support consultant who was given the assignment.• AsraZeneca / Microsoft Cluster Environment• AMS IT / Managed Microsoft server environment• Government Offices / Implementation new system• Migrating servers in the existing server farm to Virtual Platforms.• Exchange• Microsoft SQL• IIS• CRM• File server• Print server

Operations team at AstraZeneca for there clustered servers in place in Södertälje.Troubleshooting and problem solving of the Microsoft cluster environment in File, Print, SQL and others.Also worked with SAN and NAS-related problems and troubleshooting of hardware and networks.• SAN• NAS• File Cluster• DB Cluster• Printer Cluster

Were included in the web hosting team who are responsible for operating mission-critical Web applications, about 70 pieces which include www.ams.se with 24 / 7 service and about 1.9 million unique visitors per month, linked to the SLA requirements.Within the group we handled about 300 Windows servers using technologies such as:• MS IIS• MS SQL Clusters• Proxy• Load balancing• VM Ware• Apache• MySQL• PHP• ASP• DotNet• MS SQL 200• MS SQL 2005• BizTalk• X500• SSO• QlikView• Informix• Tomcat• Solaris• Couplings• Clutches Unix• Oracle• Remedy• System Center Operation Manager• SAN• Veritas NetBackup• Patch management and troubleshooting of hardware.Installed clustered Lotus Notes / Sametime / Workspace with WebSpere for Labour Market Board.Worked with the implementation of servers on VMWare ESX and MS MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager)Followed applications from the design of hardware for testing and on to production and was technically responsible for certain applications against application manager.GFS is a prestige project I participated in, the project will enable the interconnection of government agencies' systems.Participated and held operational meetings with the internal customers.

Development of new environmental, debugging and troubleshooting of existing systems for MTG and Kinnevik groups.In addition to the daily work I also performed load calculations for new environments and the development of the monitoring environment that is currently used for server environments that are managed by UNI2 throughout the "Our-Group" consisting of, among other companies Kinnevik and MTG.

Development of among other MTG and Tele2/Comviq's outsourcing platform, which is then further developed and adapted for several external customers outside of 'Our-Group ".Software Packaging as script installations and MSI. Systems development as a technical specialist for the development of a customer platform.System Specialist when takeover of server environments from a customer and implementation of the monitoring model using (Nimbus) and the production of NOC for the whole sphere server farms around the world.

Worked at ViaSat in London for a year as technical operator of the server and client environment in place.With a focus to improve and standardize a platform which is then handed over to the to internal staff.

Ran my own consulting company Pixico where I worked with companies where help was needed in IT.The assignments focused on the operation of email systems, installation and support of user computers. Development of new solutions and systems that were requested by customers such as File Server, Print Server and Mail Server.

Internal IT help desk for Tele2 where I worked with user support and helped with the daily operation and troubleshooting of workstations in place in Kista.

IT Technician, where I performed the installation of hardware and software for delivery to customers who rent equipment from CC Rental. Worked mainly with desktop and notebook PCs, and Silicon Graphics hardware.

Network engineer where tasks consisted of administering , troubleshooting and install the new training facilities.Also performed the installation of the hardware utilized by the students and the surrounding systems.

Worked as an electrician and cable installer of new IT infrastructure in new offices of data and telecommunications networks.Performed the installation of networks in offices in the Stockholm region.

Sat at HiQ headquarters where I worked to develop a GUI to their customer database for internal use by HiQ

System technician and help desk work such as troubleshooting and installation of new hardware and help with software problems