The president has appointed a management group that has day-to-day responsibility for different parts of Investor’s business. The management group has a scheduled meeting once a week to conduct and follow up current projects and issues in the organization. In addition to the weekly meetings, the management group holds regular meetings four to five times a year to discuss overall strategic issues, and daily interaction takes place between the members.

Each member of the management group is responsible for one or several units: Core Investments, Operating Investments, Investor Growth Capital, Active Portfolio
Management, Operations and Legal, Corporate Governance and Compliance.

The Core Investments business area, headed by Johan Forssell, employs ten analysts, each responsible for one or more of the Core Investments. The analysts continuously research every holding, its sector and competitors, in order to identify value-creating initiatives and to determine their return potential. Investor takes an active role in nominating representatives for its Core Investments. Normally, one or two representatives of Investor or the company’s network sit on the boards of the companies, enabling Investor to participate actively in the development of the companies.

Work on building up the Operating Investments, under the leadership of Lennart Johansson, began in 2006. The business area consists of a team of investment managers, but also uses other relevant parts of the organization in conducting its investments. Investment managers sit on the board of holdings and take a driving role in developing the business.

Investor Growth Capital is managed by Henry E. Gooss, who is also in charge of the New York organization. Managers have been appointed for the operations of Investor Growth Capital offices in Europe, the United States and Asia. Each office has investment professionals with knowledge of the local market and expertise in the sectors they manage. Investor Growth Capital is normally represented by its investment professionals on the boards of holdings. The business flow follows a standardized process comprising decision-making and implementation, as well as documentation, evaluation and follow-up of holdings.

Decisions on commitments made to EQT funds are taken by the board. The president and the CFO are responsible for day-to-day commitments and their followup in EQT funds. Decisions on other financial investments are taken by the president or person appointed by the president.

Johan Bygge, Investor’s CFO, heads Active Portfolio Management and Operations. Active Portfolio Management is controlled by mandates and limits set by the board. The department comprises both traders and analysts. Activities are supervised and monitored daily by the Risk Control function. The Operations unit includes the Finance, Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Business Information Services, IT, Risk Control and Treasury functions. Each function’s responsibilities and processes are governed by set policies and guidelines. Operations has its own management group with representatives of the various departments, which meets weekly.

In 2007, a close focus was placed on the Corporate Governance and the Compliance function, for which Petra Hedengran has overall responsibility. In Corporate Governance, the department is partly engaged in actively dealing with corporate governance issues for Investor and its holdings and partly in monitoring changes in corporate governance legislation and regulations. Work on corporate governance issues includes developing procedures for the nomination process and analysis and monitoring of shareholders’ rights. The Compliance function strives to provide an effective process for identifying changes in legislation and regulations and to raise awareness of legal risks. The Compliance function strives to ensure that the company meets the requirements of laws and contractual conditions, prevents the development, or minimizes the extent, of undesired situations and their effects and maintains internal regulatory systems to this end. The Compliance policy is revised and updated regularly, subject to approval by the board.

Information updated 2008-06-19 08:58:08