Stefan

As a Founding Partner and Executive Advisor, I lead large-scale digital transformations, corporate turnarounds, and M&A evaluations for a diverse portfolio of clients. By combining deep market insights with a high-touch advisory model, I partner with institutional investors, boards, and C-suite leadership to identify and capture new growth opportunities in a shifting global economy. Strategic Approach My methodology integrates data-driven analysis with forward-looking innovation to deliver practical, high-impact roadmaps. I specialize in: Bespoke Solutions: Designing strategies that address the specific friction points and long-term objectives of each organization. Operational Execution: Ensuring that visionary plans are grounded in reality and fully implementable. Measurable Impact: Maintaining a focus on transparency, accountability, and bottom-line results. Value Proposition My work is dedicated to helping organizations navigate modern complexities with confidence. By fostering a culture of innovation and agile transformation, I empower businesses to move beyond simple survival and toward sustainable market leadership. We provide the expertise necessary to unlock hidden potential and maximize enterprise value in the digital era.

In my capacity as Interim CDIO, I lead the strategic development and implementation of the digital roadmap for a major Energy Infrastructure provider. My focus is on aligning IT initiatives with broader business goals, maturing governance models, and ensuring that the organization's data and security frameworks meet rigorous regulatory standards. Core Focus Areas • Strategic Alignment: Established a unified IT strategy and governance model to eliminate fragmentation and streamline executive decision-making. • Operational Clarity: Introduced rigorous structure and prioritization to a complex portfolio of digital projects. • Risk & Compliance: Enhanced cybersecurity protocols and data governance to satisfy strict legal and operational safety requirements. • Resource Optimization: Evaluated the service delivery • model to find the ideal balance between in-house expertise and external partners. • Future-Proofing: Built a scalable, stable foundation designed to transition seamlessly into a permanent IT organization. • This role requires navigating a high-stakes, regulated environment where the priority is converting technical complexity into long-term stability and business value.

Goal: Identify and prioritize AI initiatives with clear business value, such as higher capacity utilization in shipyards, reduced vessel downtime, improved cost control and quality, and lay the groundwork for a long-term digitization and investment plan that strengthens the group's competitiveness.

Objective To deliver high-level strategic guidance to the board and executive team, enabling them to refine product development, de-risk investments, and restructure for maximum efficiency. By leveraging data and AI, the focus remains on accelerating time-to-market, sharpening the company's competitive edge, and driving bottom-line profitability. Client Endorsement "Stefan performed a comprehensive audit of our technical infrastructure, engineering organization, and AI data readiness. He provided actionable insights and a structured roadmap that defined our strategic direction during a critical growth phase. His ability to bridge the gap between high-level vision and technical execution was instrumental in preparing us for our future CTO appointment."

Helping improve Svenska Spel, a state-owned company operating in the regulated gambling market in Sweden. For many years, the company was the only one permitted to offer online gambling to people in Sweden, whether it be casino games, sports betting, or other types of games.

Driving cultural and technological transformation to allow scale-up of successful SaaS in the CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) space. • Renewing and modernizing company culture • Brand refresh initiative started • Platform enhancements with Generative AI • Migration to cloud & Kubernetes • Establishing a solid SDLC practice • Ensuring ISO 27001, DORA, GDPR compliance.

Helping Nasdaq OMX First North HealthTech company Careium with digital strategy, business development and approach to technology in Technology Enabled Care, offering quality-assured, cost-effective, digital solutions. Careium is a public company listed on First North, Nasdaq OMX Stockholm

Transcom is a global powerhouse in the BPO sector, employing over 33,000 specialists worldwide. Headquartered in Stockholm, the organization is a pioneer in the AI-driven customer experience (CX) space, providing cutting-edge digital and traditional support for the world’s most disruptive and ambitious brands. I spearheaded a comprehensive digital evolution that successfully pivoted Transcom into a market-leading position for AI-centric customer engagement. By bridging the gap between traditional BPO and advanced technology, I delivered the following milestones: • Product Ecosystem: Architected an AI-powered service and digital product portfolio, driving significant growth in client acquisition and diversified revenue streams. • Data Modernization: Engineered a unified, cloud-based data and reporting infrastructure that streamlined global operations and provided deep performance analytics. • Strategic Tech Alliances: Cultivated high-impact AI partnerships with industry giants like Google, accelerating the deployment of automated insights and intelligent workflows. • Engineering Excellence: Built and scaled a high-velocity Agile engineering organization, significantly compressing time-to-market for new features and increasing global competitiveness. • Global Infrastructure & Security: Managed a diverse technology division of 500+ professionals across 26 countries, ensuring world-class IT service delivery and stringent security compliance.

Helping FinTech startup on their first steps to scale up their product and client base. Company successfully operationalized platform and grew client base with great satisfaction scores. Left the board when the company was successfully sold.

Led the formation of a new global team to develop and deliver an IoT platform and ecosystem for connected home appliances. Accelerated ramp-up by attracting and hiring top talent, implementing agile methodologies throughout the software lifecycle, forging strategic partnerships with a key platform vendor, and enhancing customer experience via a dedicated consumer app. Collaborated with stakeholders and developers worldwide in strategic product development, while serving as part of the Global CTO team overseeing R&D and operations at the group level.

Spearheaded the development and operation of the group's global IT infrastructure—including data centers, networking, and the One Digital Workplace end-user computing environment. Implemented a cloud first policy and managed the change of moving the entire enterprise from legacy platform to O365, Azure etc. Oversaw a €100M total operational budget and led a worldwide team of 7 direct reports and 230 in-house staff, complemented by extensive outsourcing partnerships. Provided strategic direction to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable IT services across the enterprise.

Responsible for development, application maintenance and operation of all business-critical support systems at Com Hem – the major triple play cable operator in Sweden. Delivered a major improvement and transformation program based on Lean and Agile principles. Development was in-sourced to agile teams, AM was outsourced to India, and IT Operations underwent a significant consolidation and modernization program. Resulted improved customer satisfaction, business agility, quality, general cost efficiency and business value. This IT organization employed 220-250 people and had a budget of approx 20Meur. Com Hem was PE owned and went public through IPO, Stockholm Nasdaq OMX.

For this IT solutions provider, specializing in Sharepoint and Lotus Notes intranet solutions, I was as Region Manager responsible for the Stockholm business which was also the largest. Successfully led post-merger integration of an acquired company, personally won complex solutions sales deals, managed some Key Accounts and drove business development. Excellent track record of winning new deals, delivering projects on time and on budget, recruiting and keeping some of the very best consultants with the company.

An 8 year tenure and leadership career in IT consulting for solution provider AU-System which was taken public (OMX), merged with Teleca and thereafter again spun off and merged with Cybercom group. Responsible for establishing and managing the Business area “Content Management”. Complex solution sales, client relationship management and advisory, recruitment, development of strategies and establishing new partnerships. Reporting directly to CEO. Budget responsibility for about 4M€ revenues. 250% over budget in terms of profit for 2005. Always exceeding set budget goals. Responsible for ~35 employees including talent development, recruitment, utilization, sales etc. Customers in telecom, government, health care, media.

Responsible for the design and scale-up of the technical infrastructure of a tech startup ISP utilizing the ISDN digital network to connect SME:s to the Internet. Responsibilities: Technical design and implementation of network infrastructure, technical sales support, setup of new customers, maintenance, tech lead for 3 infrastructure technicians and 2 developers. Results: A scalable, secure and reliable infrastructure which was used for a long period of time after I left the company. I left the company when we made the transition from establishment to maintenance mode.