CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Here you can find information about
Climeon's corporate governance.
As of 2019, Climeon applies the
Swedish Code of Corporate Governance. 

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GENERAL MEETINGS

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

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IR CONTACTS

COMMITTEES

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Per Olofsson

Chairman of the Board

Per has 15+ years’ experience in general management and business leadership from companies.

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Per Olofsson - Chairman of the Board

Born in 1972
Member of the Board of Directors since 2015

Education/background: Per Olofsson holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial economics from the Institute of Technology at Linköping University and has taken courses at Universitat Politècnica de València, Harvard Business School, and Styrelseakademin. Per Olofsson is an entrepreneur who has worked mainly with business development, funding and sales. He previously worked as a management consultant and was CEO for ClimateWell for almost ten years. Per is the Executive Director of Girindus Investments AB, member of the investment committee of Almi Invest Greentech Fund, member of the Board of Baseload Capital AB and Chair of the Board of CleanFlow AB.

Holdings in the Company: Per Olofsson owns, privately or through companies, no class A shares and 610,000 class B shares and no warrants in the Company.

Independent in relation to the Company and management, as well as the Company’s major shareholders.
Updated 2019-03-31

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Jan Svensson

Vice-Chairman of the Board

Jan Svensson has extensive experience in managing companies, most recently as President and CEO of Investment AB Latour.

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Jan Svensson, Vice-Chairman of the Board

Born in 1956
Member of the Board of Directors since 2019

Education/background: Jan Svensson is a mechanical engineer and holds a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics. Jan Svensson has extensive experience in managing companies, most recently as President and CEO of Investment AB Latour 2003-2019 and previously as CEO of Sigfrid Stenberg 1986-2002. Jan Svensson also has significant experience as a board member and chairman of listed companies. He is currently active as Chairman of the Board of AB Fagerhult, Troax Group AB, Alimak Group AB as well as Tomra Systems ASA, and a Member of the Board of Assa Abloy AB and Loomis AB.

Holdings in the Company: Svensson owns, privately or through related parties, no class A shares and 12,000 class B shares in the company, as well as 75,000 call options corresponding to 75,000 B shares.

Jan Svensson is independent in relation to the Company and management, as well as the Company’s major shareholders.
Updated 2019-12-18

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Olle Bergström

Board Member

Olle Bergström has board experience and has held senior roles in companies such as Telia, YouBed AB and Skanova.

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Olle Bergström - Board Member

Born in 1972
Member of the Board of Directors since 2015

Education/background: Olle Bergström holds a Master of science degree in engineering physics from Chalmers Institute of Technology, an MBA from University of Warwick, England and he has attended courses at Styrelseakademin. Olle Bergström has experience of board work and senior positions in both large and small companies such as Telia, YouBed AB and Skanova. His experience covers everything from project management, product development and business development to the design of business strategies. Olle Bergström is at the present employeed at Telia as Head of IT & SAOps, PPMO.

Holdings in the Company: Olle Bergström owns, privately and through companies, no class A shares and 1,323,500 class B shares and no warrants in the Company.

Dependent in relation to the Company and management, independent in relation to the Company’s major shareholders.
Updated 2019

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Stefan Brendgen

Board Member

Stefan's background is in real estate, finance and asset management, recently held executive positions at Tishman Speyer.

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Stefan Brendgen - Board Member

Born in 1964
Member of the Board of Directors since 2015

Education/background: Stefan Brendgen has an MBA in economics from University of Bayreuth, Germany and University of Cologne, Germany. Stefan Brendgen has over 20 years’ experience of the property sector and has worked in executive and strategic and business development roles, as well as with raising capital and asset management. His past experience includes being CEO of Allianz Real Estate Germany and holding prominent positions in Tishman Speyer and DTZ Real Estate Advisers. In addition Stefan Brendgen has had several appointments in supervisory corporate bodies, including Allianz Suisse Immobilien AG, Instone Real Estate Group AG and TRIUVA KapitalanlageGmbH.

Holdings in the Company: Stefan Brendgen owns, privately and through related parties, no class A shares and 1,050,000 class B shares and no warrants in the Company.

Independent in relation to the Company and management, as well as the Company’s major shareholders.
Updated 2019

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Vivianne Holm

Board Member

Vivianne Holm has a Master in economics and business administration and has extensive experience from the financial sector.

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Vivianne Holm - Board Member

Born in 1965
Member of the Board of Directors since 2017

Education/background: Vivianne Holm holds a Master in Economics and Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics. Vivianne has extensive experience from the financial sector and she has in various roles previously worked with equity research, corporate finance and as an advisor with special focus on business development, raising capital and investor relations. Vivianne Holm is an active clean tech investor and also a board member of Inzile AB, Meva Energy AB, Bynk AB and Volta Greentech AB.

Holdings in the Company: Vivianne Holm owns no class A shares and 100,991 class B shares and has warrants in the Company that entitle her to subscribe for 7,882 class B shares and call options that entitle her to purchase 15,000 class B shares in the company.

Independent in relation to the Company and management, as well as the Company’s major shareholders.
Updated 2019-07-11

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Therese Lundstedt

Board Member

Therese Lundstedt has experience from larger companies, start-ups as well as non-profit associations within the finance segment.

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Therese Lundstedt - Board Member

Born in 1981
Member of the Board of Directors since 2017

Education/background: Therese Lundstedt has a Master’s Degree in marketing and management from Uppsala University and University of Calgary and has also taken courses at Styrelseakademin. Therese Lundstedt has experience from primarily the finance and IT sector, but also from large companies, startups and non-profit organizations. She has held leading positions with focus on business development, sales, digital marketing and communication at SEB, Aktiespararna, Unomaly and Redeye. Therese was formerly the CEO of Aktieinvest FK AB and is now the CEO of Urbangreen.

Holdings in the Company: Therese Lundstedt owns no class A shares and 500 class B shares and has warrants in the Company that entitle her to subscribe for 7,882 class B shares and call options that entitle her to purchase 10,000 class B shares in the company.

Independent in relation to the Company and management, as well as the Company’s major shareholders.
Updated 2019-07-11

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Thomas Öström

Founder,
Board Member & CEO

Thomas holds a MSc in Computer & Control Engineering and started his carrier at SAAB Aerospace.

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Thomas Öström - Founder, Board Member & CEO

Born in 1973
Member of the Board of Directors since 2011

Education/background: Thomas Öström has a master of science degree in computer science and control engineering from Luleå University of Technology, and he completed the leadership and finance programs at Svenska Managementgruppen. He has also taken courses at Styrelseakademin. Thomas Öström is an entrepreneur and a joint founder of Climeon. Thomas Öström previously worked for over ten years at Micronic AB (publ), and was vice president for technology development, for example. Micronic is a Swedish high tech company in the electronics industry and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Holdings in the Company: Thomas Öström owns 9,500,000 class A shares and 155,900 class B shares and no warrants in the Company

Dependent in relation to the Company and management, as well as the Company’s major shareholders
Updated 2019-03-31

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

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Thomas Öström

Founder, Board Member & CEO

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Thomas Öström - Founder, Board Member & CEO

Born in 1973
Member of the Board of Directors since 2011

Education/background: Thomas Öström has a master of science degree in computer science and control engineering from Luleå University of Technology, and he completed the leadership and finance programs at Svenska Managementgruppen. He has also taken courses at Styrelseakademin. Thomas Öström is an entrepreneur and a joint founder of Climeon. Thomas Öström previously worked for over ten years at Micronic AB (publ), and was vice president for technology development, for example. Micronic is a Swedish high tech company in the electronics industry and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Holdings in the Company: Thomas Öström owns 9,500,000 class A shares and 155,900 class B shares and no warrants in the Company

Dependent in relation to the Company and management, as well as the Company’s major shareholders
Updated 2019-03-31

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Joachim Karthäuser

Founder, CTO & Head of IPR 

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Joachim Karthäuser - Founder, CTO & Head of IPR

Born in 1960
Employed and member of executive management since 2011

Education/background: Joachim Karthäuser holds a doctor of technology degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from University of Göttingen, Germany, and has over 20 years’ experience of the global chemicals, plastics and cleantech industry (e.g. Shell, NKT and Linde/AGA Gas) where he has worked primarily on research and development, sales and business development. Joachim Karthäuser has worked as expert evaluator and project manager in research projects funded through the EU Eurostars, FP7 (Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development) and Horizon 2020 projects.

Holdings in the Company: Joachim Karthäuser owns, privately and through related parties, 4,750,000 class A shares and 23,300 class B shares and no warrants in the Company.

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Carl Frykfeldt

Acting CFO

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Olle Tholander

 CRO

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Olle Tholander -  CRO, Head of Sales, Marketing & Delivery

Born in 1967
Employed and member of executive management since 2019

Education/background: Olle Tholander has a Master of Business Studies and Economics from Uppsala University. Olle has vast experience in sales and business development. Olle has great experience of conducting globalization projects, handling complex eco systems and leading global scaling, most recently as partner at H&Z Nordics Management Consulting and before that, leading positions within Ericsson, including CEO of Ericsson Ukraine.

Holdings in the Company: Olle Tholander owns no class A shares and 4,000 class B shares and no warrants in the Company.

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Charlotte Becker

 Head of Investor Relations & Communications

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Charlotte Becker -  Head of Investor Relations & Communications

Born in 1992
Employed since 2018 and member of executive management since 2019

Education/background: Charlotte Becker holds a B.Sc. in Business and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics with special focus in Economics and Management and has also studied at National University of Singapore. Charlotte has previously worked as a consultant within investor relations, communication and PR for small and medium sized listed companies. Prior to that, Charlotte worked as a web editor of the Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer.

Holdings in the Company: Charlotte Becker owns no class A shares, 810 class B shares as well as warrants in the Company that entitle her to subscribe for 4,788 class B shares.

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Karl Brodin

Head of Product Management

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Karl Brodin -  Head of Product Management

Born in 1969
Employed and part of executive management since 2018

Education/background: Karl Brodin holds a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology. Karl has over 20 years of experience with various managerial services from product development, marketing and operations at Atlas Copco. Karl also has several years of international experience, mainly in China, where the focus was to start an application center for Atlas Copco.

Holdings in the Company: Karl Brodin owns, privately or through companies, no class A shares and 8,020 class B shares as well as warrants in the Company that entitle him to subscribe for 37,917 class B shares.

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Jonas Måhlén

Head of Research & Development

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Jonas Måhlén -  Head of Research & Development

Born in 1968
Employed since 2016 and part of executive management since 2018

Education/background: Jonas Måhlén has a degree in electrical engineering from Lund University. Jonas has long experience of managerial roles in project, program and product development and has as the installation manager delivered to world-leading semiconductor companies. Jonas Måhlén has international experience from Japan to the US and comes most recently from Tobii and Mycronic.

Holdings in the Company: Jonas Måhlén owns no class A shares, 54,000 class B shares as well as warrants in the Company that entitle him to subscribe for 23,366 class B shares.

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Robin Goodoree

Head of Service

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Robin Goodoree -  Head of Service

Born in 1973
Employed and part of executive management since 2018

Education/background: Robin has more than 17 years of experience from service organisation for pattern generators at Mycronic AB having had different positions but last as Customer Support Manager. Robin has a strong customer focus and have the experience of both working hands on at customer sites and later managing the customer support department. Robin is a upper technical college graduate focused in Electric Power.

Holdings in the Company: Robin Goodoree owns no class A shares, 3,861 class B shares as well as warrants in the Company that entitle him to subscribe for 15,466 class B shares.

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Sofie König

Head of Talent Management

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Sofie König -  Head of Talent Management

Born in 1969
Member of executive management since 2017

Education/background: Sofie König holds a master’s degree in economics with a specialization in strategic marketing. She has worked with marketing within SAS Trading, Kanal5 and Telia. Sofie König is the co-founder of eWork, where she was deputy CEO, responsible for Talent Management and communication. Sofie has many years of experience in issues related to market positioning, corporate culture, employer branding and performance management from, above all, fast-growing and innovative growth companies. Sofie is a board member of Netlight Consulting.

Holdings in the Company: Sofie König owns no class A shares, 7,185 class B shares and no warrants.

COMMITTEES

Nomination Committee 2019/2020

The Nomination Committee, appointed by the largest shareholders of Climeon as per 30 September 2019 in accordance with the so called Q3 model, consists of the following representatives:

  • Helen Öström, appointed by the shareholder Thomas Öström (53,6% of the votes and 19,6% of the shares)
  • Anne Holm Rannaleet, appointed by Joachim Karthäuser (26,4% of the votes and 9,5% of the shares)
  • Niklas Johansson, appointed by Handelsbanken Fonder (0,7% of the votes and 2,3% of the shares)
  • Annelie Enquist, appointed by Skandia Sverige Hållbar (0,4% of the votes and 1,4% of the shares)
  • Per Olofsson, the Chairman of the Board.

 

Contact the Nomination Committee

Shareholders who wish to submit proposals to the Nomination Committee are welcome to contact the Nomination Committee. Proposals shall be submitted in due time before the Annual General Meeting to ensure that the proposals can be considered.

Climeon AB (publ)
Valberedningen
Torshamnsgatan 44
16440 Kista, Sweden
nomination.committee@climeon.com

Nomination Committee of Climeon AB

Instructions for the Nomination Committee

GOVERNANCE RELATED INFORMATION

Articles of Association (Swedish)

2019 Auditor

Quality & Environment Policy

Code of Conduct

Notice of EGM

IR CONTACTS

Climeon IR contact:
Charlotte Becker

Head of Investor Relations & PR, Climeon
+46 730 37 07 07
investor@climeon.com

Climeon Certified Advisor:
FNCA Sweden AB

Box 5807
SE 102 48 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: + 46 8 528 00 399