Speakers and Chairs Bios
- Alex Adamopoulos
- Vanessa Gamboa Adams
- Philip Aminoff
- Sara Armbruster
- Gianpaolo Barozzi
- Julian Birkinshaw
- Tim Brown
- Curtis Carlson
- Niclas Carlsson
- Yogesh Chauhan
- Laurent Choain
- Clayton Christensen
- Mary Beth Christie
- Judith Clegg
- Sarah Cliffe
- Nicolas Colin
- Peter Day
- Steve Denning
- Tamara J. Erickson
- Mark Esposito
- Bill Fischer
- Debra France
- Maëlle Gavet
- Sarah Green Carmichael
- Robert Grüneis
- James Guild
- Rita Gunther McGrath
- Anil K. Gupta
- Prabhu Guptara
- John Hagel III
- Guy Halfteck
- Gary Hamel
- Boma Harahap
- Michael Harte
- Lisa Hershman
- Andrew Hill
- Tawfik Jelassi
- Eyal Kaplan
- Annie Koh
- Angelica Kohlmann
- Philip Kotler
- Ralf Köster
- Bill Liao
- Andreas Ludwig
- Christian Lüdtke
- Isabella Mader
- Fredmund Malik
- Roger L. Martin
- Mariana Mazzucato
- Milena Milicevic
- Thanigai Muthusamy
- Annu Nieminen
- Efosa Ojomo
- Sally Osberg
- Alexander Osterwalder
- Sarah O`Connor
- Will Peachey
- Magnus Penker
- Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Joseph Pistrui
- Deepa Prahalad
- Rosemarie Ryan
- Gisbert Rühl
- Philippe Silberzahn
- Hermann Simon
- Richard Straub
- Nicolai Strøm-Olsen
- Joakim Sundén
- Rob van Leen
- Rajeev Vasudeva
- Haiyan Wang
- Adrian Wooldridge
- Rickard Zetterberg
Founder & CEO
Founders Alliance
Biography
Niclas Carlsson is founder, CEO and owner of Founders Alliance, a non-profit organization established in 2002. It is a entrepreneur collaborative forum comprised of 600 of Sweden’s leading entrepreneurs owning and building midsized and large sized sustainable and international companies (Grownups) in diverse business sectors. Together they currently own 3000 of Sweden’s high-growth companies, employing 0.5 million people with a turnover of 100 Billion Euro. In this role he has created an organization that offers expertise to the challenges of growth and development at the owner level in a wide range of categories i.e. internationalization, leadership, digitalization, business models, branding, ownership & financing as well as sales by organizing a global network of key entrepreneurs, partners, business people.
Mr Carlsson is the involved in several social organizations and projects in the area of Entrepreneurship, amongst other Hand in Hand International and publisher of the Entrepreneurs Book, biographical portraits of entrepreneurs that can serve as educational material in schools and colleges for up-and-coming entrepreneurs. He also published the Entrepreneurs Barometer Sweden, a compendium of opinions and challenges faced by Sweden’s 8000 high-growth entrepreneurs. It has been an influential reference since 2002 for policy makers, service providers and entrepreneurs in their task to create a better entrepreneurial climate in Sweden. His vision is to make Sweden a vibrant and strong entrepreneurial nation with the passionate belief that entrepreneurs are an important natural resource, generating the kind of desirable development that makes for a sustainable and egalitarian society, no matter what background, ethnicity, gender or age.
In 2015 Niclas Carlsson initiated the 1st Entrepreneurs World Summit, an annual forum for entrepreneurs across the globe working to create more successful companies and a better world through increased entrepreneurship in collaboration with organizations outside Sweden similar to Founders Alliance. The 2nd Entrepreneurs World Summit will be organized in Stockholm the 21-22 September.
Between 1998-2002 he founded and built e-chron AB. A company that served as a catalyst in Europe for internet and digital entrepreneurship including e-challenge, focusing on business competition and developmental processes. It maintained a partnership with leading venture capitalists, global digital leaders and large corporations such as CNN, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, also functioning as an investment arm for Nordic digital businesses. This was later reformed and became Founders Alliance.
Mr Carlsson holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Uppsala University, but also studied at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and Heinrich Heine University in Germany.
Niclas Carlsson is also an endurance athlete having completed ultramarathons, adventure races and he is a father of three young children. He is active as a youth trainer in orienteering and cross-country skiing.