Board of Directors
Born 1955.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of BTS Group AB since 2022.
Shareholdings in BTS Group AB (including companies): 816,000 Class A shares, 2 855 034 Class B shares, totally 3 671 034 shares.
Henrik Ekelund is the founder of BTS and was its CEO since its inception in 1986 and until 2022. Henrik Ekelund has comprehensive experience as a board member and owner of growth enterprises. Henrik Ekelund graduated in business administration at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Independent of the company, not independent of its major shareholders.
Born 1953.
Member of the Board of directors of BTS Group AB. Chairman of the Board of directors of BTS Group AB from 2016 till 2022.
Other assignments: Board member of Skandia, The Swedish Export Credit Corporation and Eterna Invest.
Shareholdings in BTS Group AB: 10 000 class B shares.
Reinhold Geijer was CEO of The Royal Bank of Scotland´s Nordic branch 2003-2015, and also CEO of Nordisk Renting AB 2001-2015. He has also served as CFO of Telia, CEO of Foreningssparbanken (now Swedbank), worked within Ericsson, SSAB Swedish Steel and Weyerhaeuser Company in the United States. Reinhold Geijer graduated in business administration at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Born 1958.
Member of the Board of BTS Group AB since 2003.
Other assignments: Chairman of the Board of GomSpace AB. Member of the Board of Knowit AB.
Shareholdings in BTS Group AB: 20,000 Class B shares.
Stefan Gardefjord has been President and CEO of Swedish Space Corporation, CEO of Logica Sverige AB and member of the executive management of Logica. He has since 1987 held several senior positions in the WM-data group, including CEO of different subsidiaries, business area head, and group director of marketing, sales, and information. Stefan Gardefjord graduated upper secondary school in business.
Independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Born 1957.
Member of the Board of BTS Group AB since 2004.
Other assignments: Member of the board of Latour AB and CEO of ProactiveMedicine AB.
Shareholdings in BTS Group AB: 22,100 Class B shares.
Mariana Burenstam Linder has extensive experience from management positions in several Swedish companies. Former positions include founder and CEO of Burenstam & Partners, CEO of Ainax, Head of Enskilda Banken with global responsibility for Private Banking, deputy CEO of SEB, CIO of Trygg-Hansa and later the SEB group, CEO of ABB Financial Consulting and CEO of Nordic Management AB. Mariana Burenstam Linder graduated in business administration at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Born 1963.
Member of the Board of BTS Group AB since 2017. Teacher and researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Other assignments: Chairperson of Proact IT Group AB and Net Insight AB. Board member in Länsförsäkringar Liv Försäkringsaktiebolag, HAKI Safety AB, Dedicare AB, and Webstep ASA.
Shareholdings in BTS Group AB: 500 class B shares.
Anna Söderblom has earlier, among other things, been operational as the head of technical support and marketing director at Microsoft Nordic, marketing director at Sweden Post, Letter Division, and investment manager at Industrifonden.
Anna Söderblom has a university degree in mathematics from Lund University and a PhD in business administration from Stockholm School of Economics.
Independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Born 1994
Deputy Member of the Board of BTS Group AB since 2021.
Marketing coordinator at Staccs AB. Master of Philosophy from The University of Edinburgh
Shareholding in BTS Group AB: 0
Independent of the company, not independent of its major shareholders.
Committees
Committees 2024
At the statutory meeting of the Board, held in conjunction with the Annual general meeting, May 3rd, 2024, the following members of the Board were elected to the Board Committees.
Compensation committee
Henrik Ekelund (Chair)
Reinhold Geijer
Stefan Gardefjord
Mariana Burenstam Linder
Anna Soderblom
Audit and risk committee
Stefan Gardefjord (Chair)
Anna Soderblom
Nomination committee
Anders Dahl, appointed by Henrik Ekelund and Chairman of the Nomination Committee
Henrik Ekelund, Chairman of the Board, BTS Group AB
Claes Murander, appointed by Lannebo Asset Management
Stefan af Petersens, private investor
The Nomination committee was announced on October 24, 2024