CEO
Rikard Lundborg
Rikard is an entrepreneur, business developer and creator of disruptive services. His professional life has been at innovative international companies, ranging from the ICT to the FMCG industry. This includes development of digital services for European operators, mobile services rollout in Sweden and Eastern Europe and building the Mackmyra whisky brand from idea to international recognition and IPO. Rikard holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) and Universität Hamburg (Germany).
CTO
Arnold Andersson
Arnold has over 25 years’ of experience from ICT areas, including software development, integration, cloud services, cyber security and AI. He has founded and been the CEO of a software company for five years. Arnold, apart from being Blockchain certified, has earned a PhD from Uppsala University as well as an Executive MBA from Stockholm School of Economics.
PARTNER
Peter Almberg
Peter is the CEO of Katalysen & Partners in Stockholm. He has over 30 years’ experience of entrepreneurship, mainly within the financial industry and new technology. Peter is the founder and co-founder of several startups that has grown into solid businesses. He is based in Sweden but has plenty of international experience and adapts a global view when developing businesses.
PARTNER
Heiner A. Weber
Heiner is a partner of Katalysen & Partners in Stockholm. He is on the board of several Fintech companies and the business intelligence consultancy Alaco (Swiss Market). He is also a senior advisor to the leading New York based AI company IPsoft. Heiner started his career in electronic options trading as co-founder and managing partner at a pan-European options trading company. He was later responsible for teams covering semi-institutional clients at Swiss private banks and co-founded a startup boutique investment bank in Monaco. Heiner has a CAIA, PRM and CQF after studying at EPFL, IE and IMD.
PARTNER
Ari Liukko
He is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive background in digital services. Ari has a MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, with a final exam in Artificial intelligence. He has founded and directed several international IT-companies, e.g. Tele5 (Swedish market), Corechange (US market) and Servage (German market). Ari also transitioned two start-ups to successful IPO’s on the Swedish stock exchange. Ari is currently the CEO of CloudRepublic and a member of the Altagradus board