Jim Wennerlid

Svenska Aerogel, Listed on Nasdaq First North, produces Quartzene®, a nano technology and a Next Generation Aerogel. By adding Quartzene the end product becomes more efficient by using less material, reducing weight, replacing plastic and saving energy. Svenska Aerogel has gone from research, via start-up and now being scale up.

• Finance lead for the high growth CSS EMEA market of $0.8Bn. Partnering with the VP • Successfully translating Global Commercial strategies into regional and local execution • Drove turnaround of Market share Gross profit and IBT by 6%p in a price sensitive and regulated environment • Improved the global Medical Devices ($26Bn) investor relations process that led to higher transparency and value to Wall Street investment community • Budget ownership and target setting for EMEA region

• Commercial Finance Business partner to the DePuy Synthes EMEA Vice President of $2Bn • Lead in the setup of EMEA Commercial Supply Chain and working capital efficiencies. Drove $60M cost savings through efficiencies • Credo and Organization Health lead for Medical Devices EMEA Finance with 240 employees

• Finance lead and board member in DePuy Synthes Switzerland, of $160MM • Strong contributor to the turn-around of the Swiss business. Seen as EMEA benchmark • Successfully implemented a portfolio mindset (short and long-term investments) that was later rolled out across EMEA • Integrated and drove process standardization and efficiencies in the Swiss business. Execution was seen as a global benchmark

- Start up of EMEA Supply Chain finance – delivered increased transparency and forecasting accuracy to budget holders - Full SAP ERP implementation (PMO and team lead) - Project leader in changing business model and streamlining for 25% of the current business – leading to +35% profitability in this segment - J&J EMEA Kaizen board - SOX owner - moving inadequate to adequate audit

- Finance lead over 20 countries and $70MM in revenue. Yearly growth of 36% - Business planning lead in the region - Finance business partner for VP and four GMs - Driver in several new start-up businesses and aquisitions - Interim commercial responsibility for several developing countries. - Foreign currency risk management for the region. - Setup of guidelines on handling business via distributors. Rewarded as a global benchmark. - Manage six indirect shared service employees.

- Lead in development and implementation of EMEA wide management planning and reporting system Hyperion, with an active user base of 60 users. Project also resulted in an implementation of a new budget planning process with significant increase in transparency and accuracy. - Lead in extensive OPEX Cost Improvement Initiatives (CIP’s) and benchmarking initiatives.

- Responsible for the EMEA ($1 billion turn over) sales, marketing data, HC and P&L reporting, including analyzing and presenting data to management in different levels. - Leading the local Franchise implementation of a new indirect purchasing process and system, Ariba. - Leading role in several projects (OPEX, KPI’s, HC and Hackett Study). - Managing the month-end and annual corporate reporting via BRAVO - Responsible for several SOX cycles - One direct report

- Provide financial analyses to management team. - Financial modelling with focus on company IT cost structure. - Assist and present to local companies when doing budget. - Working to reduce company global external IT costs by 15% within a three-year time frame. - Successfully initiated and completed processes significantly reduced time used for invoicing and improved the transparency of the internal IT cost. -Present, discuss and negotiate pricing policy with different vendors.

- Gathering, consolidating, analyzing and presenting financial data (sales, headcount and P&L) for EMEA. This contracted position in an international and multicultural company was managed with financial tools like Hyperion Essbase, Flex (reporting system), DFA (database), Access and Excel.

- HR Manager in Student Union- Personnel responsibility over 50 not for profit co-workers

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