Richard Hildebrand specialises in all aspects of corporate work and in particular UK corporate finance transactions and UK and International mergers and acquisitions (both public and private). He is also experienced in other areas of corporate work including joint ventures, commercial contracts and general company advice. Richard has been particularly active in the Alternative Investment Market advising new entrants, listed companies and nominated advisers/brokers on a wide range of transactions across a variety of industry sectors.

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Peter has  held various roles in Telecommunications over 25 years working with Operators, Suppliers , Research Bodies and Start-ups to develop their business. Working with Ericsson, he is a frequent public speaker and communicator to cross-functional business audiences about 5G use cases and products from around the world.

He regularly takes part in major speaking events and lead high profile demonstrations on leading edge technology linked to 5G and beyond. He is  regarded as a unique highly informed communicator with effective visionary skills who has developed various ecosystems centred around 5G.

Björn Odenhammar has an extensive experience from the Telecom industry, and has held multiple leading positions covering both Strategic Product Management and Sales roles at Ericsson. Björn has also worked in several countries and learning about new cultures is one of his key drivers.

He is currently Key Account Manager for Virgin Media O2 and a member of the Ericsson Leadership team for UK & Ireland.
His main focus is to introduce new technologies and services that can create great business for the operators. The ongoing introduction of 5G is so exciting, since it enables brand new applications for both Consumer and especially Enterprise customers. Even more important, it holds the promise to help the evolution towards a more sustainable society.

For a quarter of a century with Ericsson and originally Marconi (acquired by Ericsson 2006); Matthew has worked across product management, sales, presales, and marketing in a variety of leadership roles, commanding budgets in the tens of millions of pounds, and P&Ls in Billions of SEK.

He currently heads up the Service Provider business in the UK, a diverse set of customers including Regional Service Providers, Enterprise and Public Sector such as Mission Critical applications in Public safety, Defense, Rail and Utilities. For the 6 years prior to this new role he was VP, Head of Live Marketing at Ericsson global, located in Stockholm: running all major events (like Mobile World Congress, Barcelona) our experience centres such as the Ericsson Imagine Studio Kista, and broad innovation demo portfolio. He led Ericsson through the pandemic by rapidly digitalising the marketing function to keep in touch with key external audiences (and each other!) whilst gracefully exiting face-to-face activities, and put in place all the transformation needed to emerge on the other side with a hybrid setup far ahead of the rest of the industry.

Matthew has relocated half a dozen times in his career, and has happily been at home in Stockholm (twice), California, Istanbul, Doha, and now again in the UK. He has been leading teams of many different scales since he was 25, and has been actively mentoring and realizing the benefits of strong mentors himself throughout his career. A practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), he most enjoys coaching aspiring leaders who want to focus on their interpersonal communication skills and also with career planning challenges. In his spare time over the past few years Matthew has enjoyed testing his mental and physical limits in ultra-marathons.

Since founding her own agency more than a decade ago, Lotta has been a dominating force in the global advertising industry. She has held c-suite executive positions at McCann Worldgroup, Samsung, Mother, and MDC. She was Women to Watch, which recognizes outstanding women in marketing, advertising and media. Beyond her success in the advertising industry she also founded 4 ventures within fashion, production and communications.

Jamie is the Head of Commercial for Livi UK. Livi, known as Kry in Sweden, is the largest provider of digital healthcare in Europe, offering patients consultations with clinicians via the Livi app in the comfort of their own home. 

Jamie’s responsibilities cover all revenue-driving partnerships in the UK. This includes various NHS providers, private insurers and businesses that want to offer their patients, customers or employees better access to healthcare, via on-the-day access to GP consultations. 

Jamie graduated from the University of Leeds in 2009 and has had various commercial leadership roles across the retail, healthcare and technology sectors. 

Stephen is a dynamic executive and non-executive director with an MBA and experience in various sectors (including Minerals, Construction, Chemical, Education and Not for Profit) with demonstrable success in all roles held. He is responsible for the UK and Construction Division which includes 10 manufacturing plants across the UK, manufacturing, GGBS, Gypsol, High Temperature Minerals, Foundry, Limestone filler, Fertiliser, Magnesium Products and Polymers & coatings. Stephen is a member of the Institute of Concrete Technology (MICT) and on the ICT Council. He is also a  fellow of the Institute of Directors and the vice Chair of Dudley and Wolverhampton Citizens Advice. 

In addition to the above Steve has a love of clocks, watches and horology in general as well as Rugby

Anneli Pinchard is an experienced HR Director at Saab. When Saab was founded in 1937, Saab’s primary aim was to provide military aircraft for Sweden. Today, Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions from military defence in all domains to civil security. Anneli has a long history of providing extensive international HR and Business Support management both on a strategic and on an operational level.  Anneli has worked at a corporate level and provided support to small and medium sized businesses within the group. During her long working career at Saab she has held various positions and appointments: VP Head of HR Market Area Europe and EMEA, Chief Accountant, Company Secretary and UK Directorship. She has been based in the UK for the majority of her working career. Anneli has a wide experience of change management and organisational restructuring activities and has a strong business acumen. In addition to Saab, Anneli worked for 8 years at a UK based professional services firm, Goodwille, as a Senior Advisor. Her responsibilities included:  international assignments, business development, business management and operations.

Outside of work Anneli acts as a representative in London for Svenskar i Världen/Swedes Worldwide which is a non-profit and politically independent organisation that has existed since 1938. The organisation is working to increase and keep international experience and competence for Swedes Worldwide.

Lisa has been Vattenfall’s UK Director of Public & Regulatory Affairs since April 2018, and has just finished an 18 month stint as Interim Country Manager.   She sits on a number of internal and external Boards, has significant Trustee experience, and is a keen mentor.  She is a corporate affairs expert with significant experience advising Board members and implementing integrated strategic corporate communications strategies.Her previous experience includes being a member of the senior communications leadership team at Centrica plc where she ran the Public Affairs team, working for public affairs consultancy Politics International, and a number of roles in Westminster working for the Liberal Democrat Party. Lisa is a graduate of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne where she gained an undergraduate degree in Politics, and an MA in International Political Economy. 

Petter is the Go-to-Market DRI for Sana, a Swedish-founded AI company transforming how organizations learn and access knowledge.  He has over 12 years experience of B2B sales. Petter is responsible for the team at Sana working their Rest of Europe / Rest of World region, having spent 2023 building up UK sales and operations. He is astute at coaching and mentoring up-and-coming intrapreneurs that are looking to take ownership and make an impact

Lars is the former General Manager Travel at Stena Line, one of the largest ferry operators in the world, taking you to Ireland, the Netherlands and beyond. Lars was also presented with the Chambers Extraordinary Member Award in 2023.

Ciaran is Vice President of Partnerships at Trustly, having joined as Head of Commercial Strategy in 2016. He has extensive experience in fintech strategy, product value propositions, go-to-market processes, as well as building direct and channel sales. Alongside this, he is involved in Open Banking in the UK and other industry initiatives such as SWIFT's Pay Later API standard. Prior to Trustly, Ciaran worked in investment banking. Firstly at Credit Suisse in a derivatives quant & programming role. Laterally in Financial Institutions M&A at SocGen and Nomura advising wealth managers, banks, and insurers.

Since founding her own agency more than a decade ago, Lotta has been a dominating force in the global advertising industry. She has held c-suite executive positions at McCann Worldgroup, Samsung, Mother, and MDC. She was Women to Watch, which recognizes outstanding women in marketing, advertising and media. Beyond her success in the advertising industry she also founded 4 ventures within fashion, production and communications.

Richard Hildebrand specialises in all aspects of corporate work and in particular UK corporate finance transactions and UK and International mergers and acquisitions (both public and private). He is also experienced in other areas of corporate work including joint ventures, commercial contracts and general company advice. Richard has been particularly active in the Alternative Investment Market advising new entrants, listed companies and nominated advisers/brokers on a wide range of transactions across a variety of industry sectors.

Stewart is an Associate Director in the Mayfair office of Freeths, a top UK full-service law firm with a global reach.  He has over 20 years’ demonstrated history of working in the legal sector. Stewart is responsible for the successful execution of the firm’s strategy in the South Region of Freeths, which includes the Bristol, Milton Keynes, Oxford and London offices.   He is astute at coaching and mentoring lawyers on the best strategies to implement that will help them achieve their personal and departmental BD and financial objectives. 

Erik is a co-founder of Spintop Ventures, an EIF-backed VC company investing in early stage Nordic SW enabling technology companies with global ambitions. Spintop (started in 2009) has invested and supported Nordic companies from seed to high-value, even Unicorn, exits to global giants like Zynga, Cisco and Klarna. He is well networked in the start-up ecosystem across Europe, has supported and mentored numerous early stage companies and has as a Business Angel also invested in some 25 start-ups. Erik started to get involved in early stage companies in 2001 after many years in the financial industry mainly in fund raising and IPOs working at senior level positions at SEB, BNP Paribas, Danske Bank, and NYSE Euronext. Erik studied at Lund University, has an MBA from Columbia Business School and is a Fulbright Scholar.

Eleonor Duhs is a barrister.  She is a partner and the head of data and privacy at Bates Wells LLP in London.  She advises regulators, public sector bodies, commercial companies and third sector organisations on all aspects of data and privacy law including the privacy aspects of new technologies, international data transfers, data and human rights and the UK’s post-Brexit legal frameworks.  She was previously a senior UK government lawyer and lead lawyer in negotiations on the GDPR.  She worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, advising on EU and international law and in the Department for Exiting the European Union where she led on the core provisions of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and aspects of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement and the Framework for the Future EU-UK relationship. She has co-authored a well-received book on Brexit: Retained EU law: a Practical Guide, published by the Law Society. 

Eleonor is at the forefront of developments in data protection law. She continues to brief MPs and Peers and advise on, and draft amendments to, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill to strengthen individuals’ rights, including in relation to AI technologies.  She is a member of the Law Society’s working group on AI.

For a quarter of a century with Ericsson and originally Marconi (acquired by Ericsson 2006); Matthew has worked across product management, sales, presales, and marketing in a variety of leadership roles, commanding budgets in the tens of millions of pounds, and P&Ls in Billions of SEK.

He currently heads up the Service Provider business in the UK, a diverse set of customers including Regional Service Providers, Enterprise and Public Sector such as Mission Critical applications in Public safety, Defense, Rail and Utilities. For the 6 years prior to this new role he was VP, Head of Live Marketing at Ericsson global, located in Stockholm: running all major events (like Mobile World Congress, Barcelona) our experience centres such as the Ericsson Imagine Studio Kista, and broad innovation demo portfolio. He led Ericsson through the pandemic by rapidly digitalising the marketing function to keep in touch with key external audiences (and each other!) whilst gracefully exiting face-to-face activities, and put in place all the transformation needed to emerge on the other side with a hybrid setup far ahead of the rest of the industry.

Matthew has relocated half a dozen times in his career, and has happily been at home in Stockholm (twice), California, Istanbul, Doha, and now again in the UK. He has been leading teams of many different scales since he was 25, and has been actively mentoring and realizing the benefits of strong mentors himself throughout his career. A practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), he most enjoys coaching aspiring leaders who want to focus on their interpersonal communication skills and also with career planning challenges. In his spare time over the past few years Matthew has enjoyed testing his mental and physical limits in ultra-marathons.

Björn Odenhammar has an extensive experience from the Telecom industry, and has held multiple leading positions covering both Strategic Product Management and Sales roles at Ericsson. Björn has also worked in several countries and learning about new cultures is one of his key drivers.

He is currently Key Account Manager for Virgin Media O2 and a member of the Ericsson Leadership team for UK & Ireland.
His main focus is to introduce new technologies and services that can create great business for the operators. The ongoing introduction of 5G is so exciting, since it enables brand new applications for both Consumer and especially Enterprise customers. Even more important, it holds the promise to help the evolution towards a more sustainable society.

Stephen is a dynamic executive and non-executive director with an MBA and experience in various sectors (including Minerals, Construction, Chemical, Education and Not for Profit) with demonstrable success in all roles held. He is responsible for the UK and Construction Division which includes 10 manufacturing plants across the UK, manufacturing, GGBS, Gypsol, High Temperature Minerals, Foundry, Limestone filler, Fertiliser, Magnesium Products and Polymers & coatings. Stephen is a member of the Institute of Concrete Technology (MICT) and on the ICT Council. He is also a  fellow of the Institute of Directors and the vice Chair of Dudley and Wolverhampton Citizens Advice. 

In addition to the above Steve has a love of clocks, watches and horology in general as well as Rugby

Elisabet is a leadership strategist and business owner with extensive experience in how to build winning cultures and teams, facilitating change success with client organisations all around the world. She has co-written three multi-award-winning leadership books, including Amazon bestselling “The Leader’s Guide to Impact” (FT Publishing). Her 4^th book ‘Supercharged Leader: Develop your mind and skillset to deal with anything’ will be released by Pearson Business May 2024. Elisabet is a leading voice on future leadership, leading transformation, cultural differences in an international world, and inclusive and innovative business cultures.