About Us

Peter's journey includes roles such as Head of Sports Marketing at Sat.1 and board member at the sports rights giant ISPR. Since 1998, Peter's entrepreneurial spirit has been a driving force, after he founded his own agency in Sports Management. This move allowed him to carve his own path and contribute his unique insights to the sports and entertainment world. 2004 marked a significant milestone in Peter's career when he was awarded the title of Sports Manager of the Year in Germany. His portfolio of managed talents includes the iconic Muhammad Ali, Michael Ballack, Oliver Bierhoff, Boris Becker, and many more.

Aline is the founder and managing director of Big Green Tree Media, the publisher of NordSIP, a news platform for professional investors about sustainable investing. She has close to 20 years of experience in the asset management industry in Stockholm, London and Geneva, including as a long/short equity hedge fund portfolio manager, and buy-side analyst, but also as CFO and COO in several asset management firms.

With more than 20 years within corporate finance at investment banks in Monaco, London, Boston and Stockholm, Thomas has focused on publicly traded companies within a wide variety of industries, covering the whole spectra from IPOs to M&A. In this capacity he has worked as a Certified Advisor by Nasdaq with companies at all stages of their development. His professional past also includes being part of the executive team of Nasdaq-listed iGaming-company Cherry.

Ann-Sophie is an experienced lawyer with extensive business experience from the financial industry as well as compliance and regulatory issues. She is a partner of, and currently works, at Apriori Advokatbyrå in Stockholm.

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Alexander is Co-founder at Sila and Investimizer, Partner at Numeraire Financial, Professor & Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Connection Science Fellow at MIT. Previously he was Co-Head of the Global Quantitative Group at Bank of America Merril Lynch for 10 years.

Earlier, he was Head of Capital Structure Quantitative Research at Citadel Investment Group, as well as other senior managerial positions at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bankers Trust. In parallel, Alex held several prestigious appointments at EPFL, NYU, Oxford University, Imperial College, and more.

Edward founded his first venture at age 13. He worked at NeXT and Apple Computer in the 1980's, and was Chief Architect at Microsoft in the 1990's where he ran projects relating to web platforms, semantic web technology, intelligent operating systems, adaptive user interfaces, and AI. He co-founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000 with Nathan Myhrvold, the largest invention fund in history with over $7B AUM.

As one of the most prolific inventors in history, Edward holds over 1200 patents worldwide and has 800+ pending in the areas of biomedicine, computing, networking, energy, and material sciences.

Gagik is the Managing Director of London-based Tetrad Capital Partners. He previously co-founded Vulcan Capital, the investment office of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, where he managed a diverse $10Bn+ portfolio.

Gagik has over 20 years of experience in private equity, management consulting, and investment banking globally. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a B.Sc in mathematics and physics, a B.E. in electrical engineering, and is a judge on Harvard University’s Innovation Challenge.

Johan has long experience in managing companies and large projects from managerial positions. He has worked as CEO and chairman in several companies in Sweden and also on an international basis in Denmark, France, UK and Spain. This experience includes serving as CEO at both Sodastream Scandinavia AB and Empire AB.

Johan is an entrepreneur with a high tempo! At Katalysen Johan is working as a catalyst to help portfolio companies to scale up internationally and also with advice and coaching.

Johan has over 20 years of experience in scaling sales organizations. He is highly proficient in enterprise SaaS sales while creating repeatable processes to drive results. Previously the CEO for Oracle Sweden, Johan has also served as Head of Global Sales and later also President at global supply chain SaaS-player Syncron US.

Johan has spent several years in Silicon Valley as well as Asia Pacific, and leads his own investment and advisory business focusing on helping young SaaS companies to scale internationally. Johan also sits on a few boards in Nordic SaaS companies.

Jonas is the founder of Resscapital AB, a regulated alternative investment fund manager. With a background in international finance, he has worked at leading institutions within fund management and investment banking in Switzerland, Belgium and the UK.

In London he worked at Schroders, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, focusing on selling OTC derivatives and structuring derivative products to European institutional investors. He holds a M.Sc. in International Finance from the School of Economics in Gothenburg.

As an entrepreneur, Oskar has helped shape several now well established industries. During the early 2000s, he defined best practises around digital business growth at some of Northern Europe’s largest media houses. In 2008, he leveraged this experience to co-found, build, and eventually exit Admore, a trailblazer in the e-commerce communications vertical. In 2018, he joined blockchain leader Goobit as Group CEO and led the commando towards a later listing on Nasdaq First North. Currently, Oskar is hard at work establishing new bridges between the Nordic and Singaporean startup ecosystems.