Get inspired - Network - Engage

Join us for this summer event and be inspired by our big re-launch of Silicon Vikings Stockholm Chapter. A new focus, new SIGs (special interest groups) and a new Board of Directors.
We will tell you all about it! 

Do you want to be part of a powerful cross-border network with 3 000+ professionals that is connecting the Nordic countries with Silicon Valley? We give you the opportnity to engage and be
a part of a network that is strengthening the bridges between these unique areas. 

• Victor Jacobsson, co-founder
 of Klarna
  How do you get venture capital and work with a VC from Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley as well as create one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world?
  
  Jacobsson is a finance graduate of the Stockholm School of Economics and has spent the last eight years developing Klarna. Over the years he has been responsible for raising equity from a wide variety of investors; from angels to public investments companies as well as VC/Growth Funds like Sequoia
  Capital, Digital Sky Technologies, General Atlantic and Atomico.

• Cory Andrews, NPI Manager at TESLA MOTORS 
  How the impossible became reality: High-tech project manager Cory Andrews, one of the early employees at TESLA, on the topic building the first all electric Roadster in Silicon Valley.
  
  
• Tomas Rudenstam, Partner and attorney-at-law at the law firm Lindahl
  Rudenstam is a commercial lawyer with a strong information technology and communications focus. He has over 10 years experience in providing legal support, ranging from working at international law firms such as Bird & Bird and Baker & McKenzie in Stockholm/London to working as legal counsel for RedCyber, a mobile services company.

• Richard Allan Horning, Chairman, Silicon Vikings Headquarters in Silicon Valley
  Presentation of Silicon Vikings and the latest trends in Silicon Valley
  
  Mr. Horning is a member of SNR Denton’s Corporate Practice and Venture Technology/Emerging Growth Company Group. Richard represents a wide spectrum of technology clients, from the classic “garage-based” start-up to Fortune 500 multi-nationals throughout Silicon Valley and around globe. Richard specializes in counseling high technology companies in all stages of development on domestic and international issues. 
  
   
• Ulf Eriksson, Chairman Silicon Vikings Stockholm Chapter
  Presentation from the new Board of Directors in Stockholm by Chairman Ulf Eriksson
  
  Ulf is presently President for and Business Coach at SU Innovation AB and SU Holding AB at Stockholm University. His background is from Swedish Startups within IT/Software/Services and consultancy within Business Development, Internationalization and Financing. Since 1996 he has worked within Venture Capital in Sweden, Norway and California. He lived in Silicon Valey 2000-2001 working for a US VC.  

Welcome,

The Board of Directors Silicon Vikings Stockholm Chapter

Chairman – Ulf Eriksson

President – Gunilla Jacobson 
Vice-President – Mikolaj Norek

Members of the Board:Jakob Vendle, Per Hedberg,  Niklas Johnsson, Tomas Bennich, Johan Siwers, Therése Gedda

The event is organized in collaboration with the law firm  Lindahl.