Board and Management

Niklas Midby

Niklas Midby, Chairman of the Board, has a background mainly in finance. Niklas begun his career in consulting and then spent twelve years in investment banking where he held various senior positions in corporate finance and private equity. Returning to Sweden, Niklas joined OM (now Nasdaq OMX) where he was responsible for all exchanges and clearing houses, including the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Since 2003 he manages his own investment company and serves on several boards. Niklas holds an MBA in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics

Jonas Martenson

Jonas Martenson, Managing Director and Founder, has an international finance background and has lived in Switzerland, Belgium and the UK. He worked in fund management in Belgium and subsequently at Schroders, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch in London focusing on selling OTC derivatives and structuring derivative products to European institutional investors. Prior to co-founding Ress Capital in 2003, Jonas was Head of Derivative Sales at Hypovereinsbank in London. Jonas holds a M.Sc. in International Economics from the Gothenburg School of Economics.

Erik Mitteregger

Erik Mitteregger, Non-Executive Director of the Board, has a background within equity research and alternative investment management. Erik held the position as Head of Research and member of the Group Management Board at Alfred Berg Fondkommission in the early 1990's. In 1995 he co-founded Brummer & Partners Asset Management. Together with his partners he introduced hedge fund management to Sweden and built what is today one of Europes leading managers of alternative investment funds. In 2002 he left Brummer & Partners in order to pursue other interests. He has since then established his own group of industrial companies and also serves on several company boards, among them the listed investment company Kinnevik. Erik holds a B.Sc. from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Mikael Holmberg

Mikael Holmberg, Non-Executive Director of the Board, has a background within management, financing and accounting. Mikael has worked within the Kinnevik group of companies since 1983, including Controller and later Managing Director of Invik & Co. AB, CFO of Investment AB Kinnevik, and Deputy Managing Director of Banque Invik S.A. As head of the European part of the single family office of Cristina and Max Stenbeck, Mikael is presently Managing Director of Anima Regni Partners Sarl, as well as a member of the Board of Managers of Verdere Sarl, based in Luxembourg. Mikael has studied economics with focus on strategic planning and control at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Andreas Ametrin

Andreas Ametrin, Portfolio Manager, was previously Partner and Team Leader at a major multi-strategy hedge fund in London where he analyzed and developed trading strategies and risk management tools. Andreas also worked for a number of years at Sungard in Stockholm, where he was responsible for valuation of credit derivatives and general interest rate modelling. He also has extensive experience in programming and risk calibration of model parameters. Andreas holds a M.Sc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Linkoping Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Gunnar Roos

Gunnar Roos, Senior Actuary, has extensive experience in insurance underwriting and mathematics. He has worked both as senior actuary and underwriter at Skandia International, where he was responsible for the French, German and US life businesses. Prior to Skandia he was an actuary at Hannover Re and marketing actuary at Liberty Re in London.
Gunnar Roos has a Ph.D in Theoretical Physics and has also lectures in Physics at the University of Linköping in Sweden.