Nordic Investment Conference 2023

Pekka Toveri

Member of Parliament, Major General (ret), Finnish Parliament

MP Toveri served in the Finnish Defense Forces from 1985 to 2021. His over 35 years long career can be divided to three parts.

Around 13 years MP Toveri served in the troops, mainly in the Armoured Brigade, where he served three times as platoon leader, Tank Company Commander, Tank Battalion Chief of Staff, Commander of Armoured School and Commander of the Brigade. MP Toveri served also as the Commander of the Guards Jaeger Regiment.

MP Toveri served 10 years abroad, including two deployments in Bosnia and Afghanistan. He served also as the Finnish Liaison Officer to U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and as the Deputy Defence Attaché to Sweden and as the Defence Attaché to USA and Canada.

Around 12 years of his career MP Toveri served in staff positions, mainly in the Finnish Defense Command J3 and J5. MP Toveri´s last assignment was to serve as the Director of the Finnish Defense Intelligence, from which position he retired in the beginning of 2021.

He is currently working as Board Member in two start-up companies and holds also positions of responsibility in three different Foundations.

In April 2023 MP Toveri was elected to the Finnish Parliament from the Coalition Party list. He is currently member of the Defence Committee, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and Chairman of the Parliament´s Ukraine Friendship Group.

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Christian Hyldahl

BlackRock

Christian Hyldahl, Managing Director, is Head of Continental Europe for BlackRock. He is a member of EMEA SteerCo and Global OpCo. Prior to joining BlackRock in October 2019, Mr. Hyldahl was CEO of Denmark’s largest pension fund, ATP. Mr. Hyldahl joined ATP in January 2017 after 26 years at Nordea, where he had a variety of senior roles such as CEO of Nordea Asset Management, CIO of Nordea Asset Management and Co-Head of Nordea Markets. Mr. Hyldahl has served on the Danish Committee for Corporate Governance and chaired the working group mandated by the Danish Government that developed the first Stewardship Code for Danish institutional investors. He graduated as a M.Sc. in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and has a Graduate Diploma in Finance from Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

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Jan Erik Saugestad

Storebrand Asset Management

Jan Erik Saugestad is CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, a well-respected player in the Nordic markets and a pioneer in the field of sustainable investments. His deep knowledge and visionary perspective have made him a highly sought-after panelist and speaker on the present and future of finance. Recently, he has assessed the fast-evolving role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it may impact the asset management sector.

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Lars Gert Lose

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners

Lars Gert Lose, Associate Partner, based in Copenhagen, is responsible for global public affairs, communication, and marketing, including geopolitical assessment of risk and opportunities for CIP investments globally. Since joining CIP in February 2022, Mr. Lose has developed and implemented a global structure around and approach to public affairs and communication in support of CIP funds and investments. Prior to joining CIP, Mr. Lose was employed 25 years in the Danish Foreign Service and has served as, among other things, Permanent Under-Secretary of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Danish Ambassador to the US, and Permanent Secretary of State for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Through these years of public service, Mr. Lose has worked intensively with geopolitical developments, and how to translate this into guidance to global companies dealing with political and regulatory issues in world markets.

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Lasse Heje Pedersen

AQR Capital Management and Copenhagen Business School

Lasse Heje Pedersen a Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Big Data in Finance (BIGFI) at Copenhagen Business School and a Principal at AQR Capital Management. He has served as Director of the American Finance Association, in the Liquidity Working Group meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address liquidity issues, in the New York Fed’s Monetary Policy Panel, on the Economic Advisory Boards of NASDAQ and FTSE, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His papers are highly cited among academics, media, central banks, the Nobel prize committee, and classes around the world. His academic awards include the Bernácer Prize to the best E.U. economist under 40 years of age, the Banque de France-TSE Prize, the Stephen A. Ross Prize, Fama-DFA Prizes, the Michael Brennan Award, the Brattle Prize, and the Graham and Dodd Award. Lasse received his B.S. and M.S. from University of Copenhagen and his Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Magnus Nordholm

Estea

Magnus Nordholm is CEO/Member of the Board at Estea AB and responsible for business development and institutional sales. Magnus comes most recently from the position as Deputy CEO at Heimstaden. Previous experience includes roles such as CEO of Fredensborg, Head of Nordic Real Estate Products, and Head of Structured Property Financing at HSH Nordbank. Magnus holds a Masters in Economics from University of Gothenburg.

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Mia Grosen

Canute and Thursday Consulting

Mia Grosen is the founder of Canute and partner at Thursday Consulting who acquired Canute in August 2023. She has a background as an entrepreneur and has co-founded several tech startups. Her expertise lies within expansion and international growth and she has through her work in Canute assisted more than 200 Danish tech startups scale internationally via their market-entry programs. She has also worked for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the embassy in London and she is a part of Dansk Industri’s expert board focussing on startups and growth.

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Mikael Munck

2021.AI

Mikael Munck is the CEO and founder of 2021.AI an AI technology company providing full AI acceleration services to clients including Data Sciences capacity, AI Models and AI Platform to integrate and operate AI their clients existing business and IT infrastructure. 2021.AI services +70 clients globally. Mikael Munck has more than 25 years of experience as a leader and executive within the area of technology and AI. Mikael has a stint of CEO, CIO and COO titles within these industries. Mikael is investor and board member in a range of technology and cyber securities companies.

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Nicole Rebstorp Bernardi

PFA

Nicole is a Director in the alternative investments team at PFA Pension. Nicole is focusing on unlisted infrastructure investments and is a member of the investment committee. Prior to joining PFA, she spent more than a decade in various roles within Investment Banking at Nordea, including heading up the Nordic infrastructure financing franchise. Nicole started her career in 2004 at JP Morgan in London followed by three years at Deutsche Bank in Sydney. Nicole holds a Masters in Finance from University of Technology, Sydney and BSc in Economics and Business Administration from Aarhus BSS.

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Søren Vendelbo Jacobsen

Thylander

Søren Vendelbo Jacobsen is a Partner and Deputy-CEO of Thylander Gruppen, a leading Danish private equity real estate manager with approx. DKK 15bn AUM. Mr. Jacobsen has more than 15 yrs. of experience in the real estate sector as a principal investor across the European real estate sector. Before becoming a Partner at Thylander, Mr. Jacobsen served as Co-Chief Investment Officer at Heimstaden – a pan European residential real estate company owning approx. 159,000 units and AUM of ~ EUR 30 bn. During his tenure at Heimstaden, Mr. Jacobsen led an international expansion strategy across several European countries. Before Heimstaden Mr Jacobsen was Head of real estate and infrastructure at Danish pension fund Sampension responsible for managing a DKK 20bn real estate and infrastructure portfolio.

During his carrier Mr. Jacobsen have been involved in some +50 transactions with a combined transaction volume of more than 15bn EUR. Mr Jacobsen holds a master’s degree in economics from University of Copenhagen including studies at London School of Economics.

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