And Carl is also extremely results-focused. I believe I was the only one who showed it so clearly. I still remember how I presented my case to him: “I started at this German firm Mercatura, and the numbers looked like this, and when I left, they looked like this.” Gustaf: What did Carl Bennet see in you when you took over as CEO at Lifco in 1998? What did you learn from him?įredrik: Carl Bennet saw somebody who was result-focused, and that was what he wanted. And the business equivalent is being a CEO - you go in with one set of financials and leave with another. I wanted to do something measurable, like in sports. I do not find slides rewarding it is like writing papers in school. What appealed to you about the CEO role?įredrik: I was not very good at making slides as a consultant. Just over 30 years old, you become CEO, and the year is 1993. Gustaf: You did the Swedish business leader preparatory quadfecta: military service in the Interpreter School, studies at the Stockholm School of Economics in parallel with Engineering physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, and then becoming a management consultant at BCG. And I have won the Archipelago Raid here in Stockholm three times, thanks to a home advantage. I have also got an 8th place rank in the world championship, having won one leg. Fredrik: I am a three-time Swedish and Nordic champion in F18 catamaran. Gustaf: But you have won some races since then? I studied too much when I was young, so I mostly only had time for skiing and sailing but never professionally. Fredrik Karlsson: Gustaf, thank you for dropping by. You radiate competitiveness - did you ever compete professionally in any sport growing up? You were also a CEO at this time, and you have separately generated some of the best - if not the very best - return track records in the Nordics.īut ironically, the word “Nothing” still echoes in Röko.īut let us start from the beginning. The following slide said humbly: “Nothing.” Tomas Billing’s first presentation outside of Stockholm’s finance district - as a newly minted 30-year-old CEO - said on an overhead slide: “What can Tomas Billing add to the Vansbro factory?”
Gustaf: Hey Fredrik - let us get right to it! Beers from the subsidiary Oppigårds are always present.
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