Board - Nilar

Directors bios

Michael Obermayer, Chairman

Board member since 2012
Shares: 344,969 privately and through R&H Trust Co (Jersey) Limited as Trustee of the Elk Trust
Share options: 24,000
MSc eng., PhD chem, MBA INSEAD
Managing partner at Fjord Capital Partners. 28 years at McKinsey Company, Senior Partner; former Managing Director of World Economic Forum

Anders Barsk, Vice Chairman

Board member since 2004
Shares: 212,025 held privately and through Sagax Limited
Investor with focus on technology
Director of Gycom AB and former Director for Boston Power Inc (Li-Ion batteries)

Lars Fredriksson, Chairman & Co-Founder

Board member since 2000
Shares: 267,924 through Fredriksson & Forssell AB
Share options: 7,982
Former CEO, Optima batteries, brought to IPO; former CEO and current chairman of Gycom AB
Deep experience in building world-wide distribution and sales organizations for battery companies

Stefan De Geer

Board member since 2017
Shares: 2,000
Share options: 5,000
JD
Advisor to RoosGruppen AB, former head of corporate finance at
Pareto Securities Stockholm, former general counsel E. Öhman J:or AB,
former partner of Gernandt & Danielsson.
Board assignments: PCTC Invest AB (chairman), United Spaces Network
Offices AB, Wolseley Nordic holdings AB (chairman)

Gunilla Fransson

Board member since 2018
Shares: 2,000
Share options: 5,000
CivIng, KTH
Chairman Novare Peritos AB, board member of Net Insight AB, Trelleborg AB, ex SAAB

Anders Gudmarsson

Board member since 2016
Shares: 3,763
Master of Law, Uppsala
Former; Assistant judge, Court of Appeal, Stockholm, President Boliden Intermarket and Flakt Service Sweden, Managing Partner Odgers Berndtson, Stockholm

Alexander Izosimov

Board member since 2016
Shares: 12,800 through Zuberio Holdings Ltd
M.Sc. in Production Management Systems and Computer Science, MBA INSEAD
President and CEO AO VimpelCom (later Vimpelcom Ltd.), President for CIS, Central Europe and Nordics Mars Inc., McKinsey & Co. (Stockholm, London). Board experience: EVRAZ Plc, LM Ericsson AB, MTG AB, East Capital AB, Transcom SPA, ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), Carlsberg (advisory board), Orkla (advisory board), Dynasty Foundation

Peter Tell

Board member since 2010
Shares: 90,856 through Stamfar Peter AB and XAOC AB
Founder of PIAB AB vacuum division
In 2006 PIAB was sold to Altor Equity Partners. In 2015 Altor sold Piab to EQT, who sold to Investor AB 2018.

Observers to the Board

Ted Kalborg

Shares: 123,020 through Christmas Common Ltd
Founder of Tufton Oceanic Group AUM today of $1.5 billion
Served on the board of several public and private companies in the shipping and energy sector

Kit Braden

Shares: 466,133

Samuel Gerssen

Representing Waterman 40 Holding B.V.
Shares: 60,449

Lennart Kalén

Representing Segulah AB
Shares: 52,500

Advisors to the Board

Neil Puester, Co-Founder

Board member 2001-2007
Shares: 60,186
BSME Tufts University
Over 30 years of experience in several battery chemistries at Yardney, Gates Energy Products, Optima Battery, and Nilar.
35+ battery patents

Dag Noréus

Affiliated expert, Stockholm University
Expert on metal hydrides and compressed powder electrodes
Share options: 6,000

Uwe Köhler

Advisor to the Board since 2016
Share options: 6,000
MSc phys., PhD phys.
Battery pioneer.
Over 30 years of experience from Varta, SAFT and Johnson Control at senior positions such as Head of Development, Advanced Battery Systems at Varta Automotive Systems.