Maria Björholt

Chief Sustainability Officer at Polar Structure AB
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area, SE

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Credentials

  • Professionellt styrelsearbete
    Michaël Berglund Board Value
    Nov, 2022
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • Sweden
    • Trusts and Estates
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Sustainability Officer
      • Feb 2021 - Present

    • Sweden
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • CFO
      • May 2019 - Feb 2021

      Norrsken is an impact investor that was founded by the tech unicorn founder Niklas Adalberth in 2016. Norrsken primarily supports the ecosystem in two different ways. The first is through a co-working space for 425 impact entrepreneurs in Stockholm. The second is through a VC fund backed by unicorn founders, which invests in companies with the potential to radically improve the world. Norrsken is an impact investor that was founded by the tech unicorn founder Niklas Adalberth in 2016. Norrsken primarily supports the ecosystem in two different ways. The first is through a co-working space for 425 impact entrepreneurs in Stockholm. The second is through a VC fund backed by unicorn founders, which invests in companies with the potential to radically improve the world.

    • Board Member
      • May 2019 - Oct 2020

    • Board member
      • Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

      IT Guide recruits and trains newly arrived youth who in turn educate and support seniors with IT. IT Guide recruits and trains newly arrived youth who in turn educate and support seniors with IT.

    • Sweden
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
      • Feb 2015 - May 2019

      Reach for Change (R4C), founded by the Kinnevik Group in 2010, identifies and develops early-stage social entrepreneurs that want to improve the lives of children. R4C supports the social entrepreneurs in scaling their innovations through the provision of seed-funding, access to business expertise and networking opportunities. I was part of the team that took R4C from 9 to 18 countries (with local staff in each market) across three continents (Africa, Asia and Europe), from 25 to 70+ employees and from a portfolio size of 40 to approx 200 entrepreneurs. Show less

    • Luma (Management trainee)
      • Feb 2014 - Jan 2015

      Main responsibilities included leading the finance function’s expansion into Scandinavia, the Baltics, Bulgaria and Ethiopia, where the last two countries required a setup of new local accounting departments. Further responsibilities included set up of month-end closing, forecasting and budgeting processes, and evaluating options for legal presence and employment forms for each market respectively.

    • France
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Consultant
      • Jan 2014 - Feb 2014

    • Management Consultant
      • Sep 2011 - Dec 2013

    • Chile
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Volunteer work - Microloans
      • Jan 2010 - Jun 2010

      Supporting underpriviliged people in starting up and running their own businesses through microloans Supporting underpriviliged people in starting up and running their own businesses through microloans

    • Sweden
    • Research Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Chairman of the Student Council at the board for Industrial Engineering and Management
      • Aug 2008 - Jun 2009

Education

  • Lunds tekniska högskola / The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
    Master of Science (MSc), Industrial Engineering and Management
    2006 - 2011
  • Cass Business School
    Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
    2010 - 2010
  • Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires / ITBA
    Industrial Management and Engineering
    2009 - 2010

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