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Board Members

Gunilla Fransson

Chair of the Board

Chairman of the Board since 2018 and Chair of the Remuneration Committee.
Born: 1960. Gunilla Fransson holds a Licentiate of Technology in Nuclear Chemistry from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Up until 2016, Gunilla was a member of Saab AB’s group management. She possesses over 20 years’ experience of the telecom sector, formerly holding several senior positions in the Ericsson group. Gunilla is a Board member of Securitas AB, Trelleborg AB, Nederman AB, Eltel AB and some unlisted companies, including Board member of Dunkerstiftelserna. Independent of the company and management, independent of the company’s major shareholders.

Shareholdings in Net Insight: 142,000 class B shares.

Jan Barchan

Board member

Board Member since 2015 and member of the Remuneration Committee.
Born: 1946. Jan Barchan holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration and is CEO of Briban Invest AB, Chairman of the Board of nok9 AB. Board member of Studsvik AB, Västraby Energi AB and Anbace invest AB.
Independent of the company and management, dependent of the largest
shareholder Briban Invest AB.

Shareholdings in Net Insight (including holdings through Swedish endowment insurance and Briban Invest AB): 55,262,573 class B shares.

Cecilia de Leeuw

Board member

Board member since 2022.
Born: 1968 Cecilia holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management, The Institute of Technology at Linköping University. Current positions and other significant duties: Vice President and Head of Industry Telecom & Consumer, Tietoevry. Board member and chairman of the Remuneration Committee for Kambi. Cecilia joined Tietoevry from Ericsson in 2018. With Ericsson, she held various senior leadership positions, most recently as VP Sales in Canada. Cecilia has more than 25 years’ experience in complex system sales, global product management, including postings for Ericsson in Asia and North America. Independent of the company and management, independent of the company’s major shareholders.

Shareholdings in Net Insight: 26,500 class B shares.

Torbjörn Wingårdh

Board member

Board member since 2022.
Born: 1964 Torbjörn holds a Degree of Master of Science in Business and Economics, Stockholm School of Economics. Previous experience, CFO at RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ), CFO at Mycronic AB, CFO business area Saab SDS and senior positions within Investor AB in Sweden and USA. Independent of the company and management, independent of the company’s major shareholders.

Shareholdings in Net Insight: 250,000 class B shares

Karl Thedéen

Board member

First elected 2023.
Born 1963. Karl Thedéen holds a Master of Science in Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Current position and other significant assignments: CEO of Outpost24 AB, board member of Smartoptics AB (publ). Previous experience, CEO of Edgeware AB (publ), Business Area Manager Infinera Inc (publ), CEO of Transmode AB (publ), board member of Semcon AB and senior positions within the Ericsson Group. Independent of the company and management, independent of the company’s major shareholders.

Shareholdings in Net Insight: 40,000 class B shares

Axel Barchan

Personal deputy to Jan Barchan

Born 1993.
Bachelor’s degree in economics, Lund University and studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Current position and other significant assignments: Investment manager at Briban Invest. Board member of Briban Invest AB, Utvecklingsaktiebolaget Laburnum, Fastighets Aktiebolaget Trianon, Nok9 AB and Finansia. Main work experience and other information: Axel has previous experience from Investment Banking at Carnegie. Independent of the company and management, dependent of the largest shareholder Briban Invest AB.

Holdings in Net Insight: 53 152 568 B shares through Briban Invest AB.

Management

Crister Fritzson

CEO

Born: 1961. Crister Fritzson holds a Diploma in Business Administration and assumed the position as CEO of Net Insight in April 2020 after being a Board member since 2013. Crister has more than 15 years of experience from the telecom industry and 10 years from the media industry and was formerly CEO and President of Teracom Group and CEO of Boxer. Most recently CEO and President of SJ AB for 8 years. Crister is a Board member of Green Cargo AB and Chairman of the Board of Giwt Holding Oy.

Shareholdings in Net Insight: 11,732,000 class B shares, whereof 11,715,000 class B shares through Wilda Go AB.

Warrants:
1,000,000 (LTI 2020 & 2022).

Joakim Schedvins

CFO

Born: 1976. Joakim Schedvins has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Management, Finance from Luleå University. He joined Net Insight in October 2020. Joakim has held a number of CFO positions in various industries and comes most recently from Cramo.

Shareholding in Net Insight:
300,000 shares.

Warrants:
50,000 (LTI 2022).

Mårten Blixt

CCO

Born: 1975. Mårten Blixt has more than 20 years of experience from leading international CEO and sales roles in the software and IT industry. Most recently as regional manager for the Nordic region for Questback, a market-leading SaaS supplier. Prior to that, he was the Nordic CEO of the global software and IT company Insight Technology Solutions. Mårten joined Net Insight in August 2020.

Shareholding in Net Insight:
0 shares.

Warrants:
350,000 (LTI 2020 & 2022).

Christer Bohm

Vice President Product Management

Born: 1966. Christer Bohm holds a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Christer has over 20 years of experience from various roles in media, telecom and datacom and is one of the cofounders of Net Insight, employed since 1997.

Shareholding in Net Insight:
0 shares.

Warrants:
250,000 (LTI 2020 & 2022).

Per Lindgren

Group CTO and Head of Sync

Born: 1967. Per Lindgren holds a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. As a co-founder of Net Insight, Per has been an employee since 1997. Previous experience includes Associate Professor at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Shareholdings in Net Insight:
400,000 class A shares
1,070,000 class B shares.

Warrants:
400,000 (LTI 2020 & 2022).

Ulrik Rohne

COO and CTO Media

Born: 1967. Ulrik Rohne holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Employed at Net Insight since 2012 and has extensive experience from a variety of roles
within product development, mainly within the telecom and mobile industry. Ulrik has held various management positions within Ericsson and most recently from Sony Ericsson, where he was Head of Software
Development in Stockholm.

Shareholdings in Net Insight:
0 shares.

Warrants:
50,000 (LTI 2022).

Mats Herolf

VP R&D

Born: 1972. Mats Herolf holds an M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and an M. Sc. in Finance and Accounting from the Stockholm School of Economics. Mats has been employed at Net Insight since 2004 and worked in many different roles. Most recently heading the Stockholm R&D department. Mats was previously working for Cisco Systems.

Shareholdings in Net Insight:
185,000 shares.

Warrants:
100,000 (LTI 2022)

Tove Bylund

CHRO

Born: 1980. Tove Bylund holds a Master in Human Resource Management from Université de Créteil in Paris. Tove has 15 years of experience in broad HR work and comes most recently from Wise Consulting, where she held various global and senior positions at e.g., Ericsson and H&M. Before that, she has experience from, among others, Teracom and Capgemini Consulting. Tove joined Net Insight in January 2023.

Shareholding in Net Insight: 0 shares.

Warrants: 0