Board of directors

Göran E Larsson

Göran E. Larsson, Chairman of the Board since 2000 (board member since 1998).

Other Board assignments: Chairman of the Boards of AB Sagax (publ.), Effnet Holding AB (publ.), Aqeri Holding AB (publ.) and the Hildur Nordin Heritage Foundation. Vice Chairman of Avega AB (publ.) and Board member of Habia Cable AB and Sandrew Metronome AB.

Education: B.Sc. Engineering 1967 and B.Sc. Business Economics 1969.

Current position: Active Board work. Previous positions: President of Micronic Laser Systems AB, Standard Radio AB, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå AB, Norstedts Tryckeri AB, Interforward AB, Ferag Inc. Chairman of the Boards of QlickTech International AB, Tolerans AB, Ferag Japan AB.

ReadSoft shares: 120,000 (120,000) Series B shares. Independent in relation to the company and its principal owners.

Born: 1943.  

Jan Andersson, Board member since 2011.

Other Board assignments: Chairman of Ekros & Hultberg, Board member of NET Invest AB. 

Education: B.Sc. Computer Science, Institute of Technology at Linköping University, 1986.

Current position: Active board work at ReadSoft AB.

ReadSoft shares: 596,790 (596,790) Series A shares and 3,511,195 (3,511,195) Series B shares.

Employed: 1991

Born: 1959.

Lars Appelstål

Lars Appelstål, Executive Vice President R&D and member of the Board since 1991.

Other Board assignments: None.

Education: B.Sc. Computer Science, Institute of Technology at Linköping University 1986. Master of Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1986.

Current position: Executive Vice President R&D, ReadSoft.

Previous positions: Systems Developer, Norsk Data, Oslo 1986-1988, Consultant, Frontec, Stockholm 1988–1991.

ReadSoft shares: 596,790 (596,790) Series A shares and 3,511,195 (3,511,195) Series B shares.

Born: 1959.

Lennart Pihl

Lennart Pihl, Board member since 2001.

Other Board assignments: Chairman of MultiQ AB (publ.). Member of the Boards of Duroc AB (publ.), Formpipe AB (publ.), Heatex AB and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden (Northwest Skåne) and Rya Golf.

Education: B.S. Business Economics, Lund University.

Current position: Senior Advisor and management consultant in his own company.

Previous positions: President of Acrimo 1987–1997, President of Bong Ljungdahl 1997–2003.

 ReadSoft shares: 20,000 (20,000) Series B shares. Independent in relation to the company and its principal owners.

Born: 1950.

Håkan Valberg, Board member since 2008.

Other Board assignments: Prodacapo AB and a number of Advent Software’s subsidiaries. Education: B.Sc. Engineering, Institute of Technology at Linköping University 1986.

Current position: Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA region at the US company Advent Software.

Previous positions: MAS/PCM Nordic (IBM subsidiary) General Manager, EVP Sales & Marketing, i2Technologies, Client Executive, Nordic Manager and Industri Matematik International, Vice President World Wide Product Marketing, Development and Alliances.

 ReadSoft shares: 7,500 Series B shares (7,500). Independent in relation to the company and its principal owners.

Born: 1962.

Håkan Valberg

Anna Söderblom

Anna Söderblom, Board member since 2004 

Other Board assignments: Member of the Boards of Ortivus AB (publ.), Avega AB (publ.) and SSE Business Lab.

Education: B.A. Mathematics 1994, Lund University. B.Sc. Business Economics 2003, Stockholm University.

Current position: Researcher, Stockholm School of Economics.

Previous positions: Director of Marketing, Microsoft Nordic. Director of Marketing, Posten Brev. Partner/Investment Manager, Startup Factory and Industrifonden.

ReadSoft shares: 10,000 (10,000) Series B shares. Independent in relation to the company and its principal owners.

Born: 1963.

Peter Gille

Peter Gille, Board member since 2009

Other Board assignments: A number of Nexus subsidiaries.

Education: B.Sc. System Science 1988 Uppsala University, and Executive MBA 2003, (Universities of Paris and Edinburgh).

Current position: President of Nexus Technology.

Previous positions: Various executive positions at the Oracle Group 1994-2006. Consultant at Corda Adesystem, Enator Corda, 1988-1994.

 ReadSoft shares: 0 shares. Independent in relation to the company and its principal owners.

Born: 1962.