The Transaction Committee is constituted of five permanent members with deep experience from a broad field of industries including real estate, development, finance and capital markets.
Urban Edenström
Mr. Edenström is the founder, CEO and largest shareholder of the Stronghold Group. Mr. Edenström also founded Datscha in 1997 and Niam in 1998. He serves as Chairman of Niam, the Fund Transaction Committee, Newsec and Datscha. Prior to founding Stronghold, Mr. Edenström was the CEO of FastighetsRenting AB, a €2.0 billion market capitalisation real estate company based in Sweden with property investments in Sweden, Norway, Finland and the UK. Under his management, FastighetsRenting grew to €2.0 billion in market capitalisation between 1986 and 1990. In the early eighties, Mr. Edenström was responsible for real estate and construction at Citadellet, a listed real estate company. Mr. Edenström holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he also took courses in Real Estate Law, Construction and Property Management. He also studied business economics at The University of Stockholm and has taken various courses in business leadership, including courses at IMD in Switzerland.
Johan Bergman
Mr. Bergman is the Managing Director of Niam AB. Prior to joining Niam in 2006, Mr. Bergman spent 16 years with the Skanska Corporation, most recently as one of four Executive Vice Presidents directly responsible for five of the Group’s 15 business units, including commercial property development in the Nordic Countries and other European countries, residential project development in the Nordic Countries and construction units in Poland and Russia. Previously, Mr. Bergman was in charge of business development for Skanska Fastigheter where he reported directly to Claes Björck, CEO of Skanska, and he has also been responsible for Skanska's project and real estate business outside of Sweden, specifically in Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Munich. In the mid 1990s, Mr. Bergman was responsible for Skanska's real estate business in London and, before that, Director of Real Estate for Skanska Fastigheter Stockholm where he was responsible for three market areas in Stockholm. Mr. Bergman holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He also attended Harvard Business School's Program for Global Leadership in 2001.
Göte Dahlin
Mr. Dahlin is Deputy Chairman of the Board of RBS Nordisk Renting AB, since 2003 a subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland. He is also a member of the Board of Veidekke ASA, the biggest construction company in Norway, as well as in Rezidor Hotel Group AB, Fabege AB and Svensk Inredning Viking AB. Mr. Dahlin retired from the real estate company Nordisk Renting AB in Stockholm in 2001, where he had held the position of CEO since the company’s inception in 1986. During that time, Nordisk Renting grew to a market capitalisation of €1.8 billion, with properties mainly in Scandinavia and Finland. Mr. Dahlin holds a Bachelor of Science from The University of Stockholm in Sweden.
Claes Kjellander
Mr. Kjellander is the Chairman of SBAB (Swedish National Housing Finance Corporation) and a strategic advisor to Niam. From 2001 to 2005 Mr. Kjellander was the Managing Director of Jones Lang LaSalle in the Nordic Region. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Kjellander was Managing Director of Stenvalvet AB, which was 90% owned by Credit Suisse First Boston. From 1993 to 1998, he was a CFO and Executive Vice President for Vasakronan AB. From 1987 to 1993, he worked for ABB Fläkt where he served as Executive Vice President and Group Controller. Mr. Kjellander holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Stockholm. He has also completed post-graduate classes in Business Administration from the University of Stockholm.
Tomas Nicolin
Mr Nicolin is a member of the board of directors of the Nobel Foundation; SEB, one of Sweden’s four major banks; Nordstiernan, an unlisted investment company; Q-Med, a biotechnology company with focus on aesthetics; Active Biotech, a biotechnology research company; and Research Institute of Industrial Economics. From 2004 to 2009, Mr Nicolin was the CEO of Alecta, a pension fund for private sector salary employees and from 1998 to 2004 he was the CEO of The Third National Swedish Pension Fund. From 1994 to 1998 Mr Nicolin was the Head of Asset Management at Handelsbanken and from 1985 to 1994 he was the CEO of Öhman Fondkommission, a family owned investment bank. Mr Nicolin holds a bachelor in business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and Master of Science in Management from Sloan School of Management, MIT.