Jonas Ahlström is Chief Operating Officer and Deputy President & CEO at SEB since 1 January 2025. He has been a member of the SEB Group Executive Committee since 2020.

Mr. Ahlström worked at Investor AB during 2001-2005 before joining SEB, starting in SEB’s CEO & Strategy office.

Jonas has worked across several business areas within SEB including Debt Capital Markets and Equity Research and has held various managerial positions such as Head of CEO & strategy Office, CFO for the Baltic division and Head of the Baltic division before being appointed Co-Head of Corporate & Investment Banking division in June 2021. In January 2023 Jonas took over as sole head of Corporate & Investment Banking.

Jonas holds an MSc. in Finance and Accounting from Stockholm School of Economics in 2001 and also a CEMS Master’s degree from SSE and Universität St. Gallen.

Tina Fordham is a Geostrategist, Author and Advisor to board and C-Suite executives on a mission to transform how senior leaders navigate the changing global environment.

Her signature theses on the Geopolitics Supercycle, PQ (Political Quotient) and Vox Populi Risk have entered the business lexicon, while the tools developed by Fordham Global Foresight have demonstrated how geopolitics can be integrated into business strategy.

Fordham was Wall Street’s original Chief Global Political Analyst, spending 17 years at Citigroup. She created Eurasia Group’s financial markets research business; was appointed to the United Nations’ first High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, and has served as a Senior Advisor to the U.K. Prime Minister and 2- and 3-star Generals.

Tina is a member of the International Advisory Boards of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, her alma mater, and Cambridge University's Centre for Geopolitics. She hosts “The Navigator”, produced in collaboration with the London Stock Exchange, and is a frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Monocle Radio.

Her forthcoming book, Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders, will be published in September 2026 by Whitefox.

Carl-Johan Hagman is by training a maritime lawyer. After having served in the Swedish Navy as an anti-submarine warfare officer he has been the President & CEO of Wallenius Lines in Sweden, Eukor Car Carriers in Korea, Hoegh Autoliners in Norway and has headed up the shipping activities of the Stena AB group in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Since 2023 he is the President and CEO of NYK Group Europe, based in London. As of April 2026, he also serves as Managing Executive Officer of NYK Line and Europe Region Head of the NYK Group, with overall responsibility for the Group’s business and operations across Europe.

Mr. Hagman also serves as Vice Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and Chief Executive of Japan Shipowners’ Association (JSA), Europe Branch.

He has previously been the Korean honorary consul general in Gothenburg, Sweden and is the recipient of the Korea Medal for Industrial Merit. He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Maritime Academy and the Royal Academy of War Sciences. 

Will Poskett is an award-winning strategist, founder of Defiant, and writer of Behind the Brands, newsletter on how brands really grow and the cultural forces shaping them, drawing 50k monthly unique readers. He has over 20+ years experience advising some of the world's most recognised brands including Nike, Heineken, Amazon and Coca-Cola. In 2014 made history by winning the first-ever Grand Prix at the YouTube Effectiveness Awards.

Crispin Turner is Marketing Director at Scania, where he leads the company's marketing strategy brand, communications. As someone who enjoys thinking out of the box and finding solutions to solve business challenges, he’s developed multiple partnerships over the years to create work that captures attention, changes perceptions and delivers measurable commercial impact.

Crispin was Scania’s lead for ‘Project Through’, working closely with Red Bull and mountain bike athlete Matt Jones over three years to turn an incredibly ambitious idea into a world-first. The project culminated in Jones successfully jumping through two moving autonomous Scania trucks, combining engineering, technology, precision and storytelling in a feat that captured global attention.

At Outer Thinking, Crispin will share the story behind the collaboration, from the first conversation to global execution, and explore how trust, ambition, creativity and thinking differently provided the platform to turn an idea that once seemed impossible into reality - something one partner could never have achieved on their own.

A professional mountain bike athlete since 2011, competing on the Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour from 2016 to 2019, where I ranked 9th in the world and 1st in the UK. I have been a Red Bull athlete since 2014. Since 2019, I have focused on video projects, growing my online profile and building a YouTube audience of over 1 million subscribers. Alongside this, I have co-founded and launched several businesses, including Mavrix By Matt Jones, an open world MTB video game, the technical clothing brand Helfare and Brink Bike Shop.

Catharina Belfrage is Chief Commercial Officer at wave energy developer CorPower Ocean and former sustainable finance head and Chief Sustainability and Climate Officer on executive management of Handelsbanken. Catharina is a lawyer by training and was a senior associate at a business law firm before moving to investment banking. She is Chairman of the Board of Swedish climate tech company GoClimate, finance fellow with Exponential Roadmap initiative and sits on the advisory board of Stockholm School of Economics research center Swedish House of Finance.​

Linda Nyberg is a Senior Corporate Affairs and Communications specialist with over 25 years of experience

working with strategic and tactical communication in global contexts, including national and international radio and broadcast, journalism and news and tv-show anchor and producer. Special interest in international Affairs, Public Affairs, Corporate Communications, Journalism, Moderating, Marketing/Branding and Social Media and Media Relations. Regarded as a trusted advisor among colleagues and clients. Linda is a political scientist with studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, Sorbonne, France and University of Alberta, Canada.

Moderator/Conferencier and consulting assignments for private and public sector including the academia like universities and innovation- and research centres. Assignments include besides moderating state-visits, ministerial and academic round-table discussions and conferences, major listed European companies and international organizations like UNHCR, Red Cross etc.