Board & Management

Cibus board, management and partners bring together a strategic combination of skill-sets within real estate, finance, and grocery market experience.

Board and auditor

Cibus’ board consist of five directors, including the chairman, and are all elected until the next Annual General Meeting. All five board members are independent in relation to company and larger shareholders.

Patrick Gylling

Chairman of the board

 

Mr. Gylling has been involved in building the Cibus portfolio and holds significant experience from more than sixty real estate transactions totalling approximately three billion euro. He and his team were previously awarded best Finnish developer and investment manager by Euromoney. Previous experience includes founding the real estate private equity firm Sirius Capital Partners and HGR Property Partners as well as holding key positions at Sveafastigheter, Morgan Stanley and Advium Corporate Finance. He currently serves as a board member of Life Annuity Institution Hereditas Ltd.

  • Ownership in the Company: 405 000 shares via Oriolidae Invest Ab and Oy Golden Oriol Ab
  • Investment manager - Team leader and board member since 2018
  • Independent in relation to the Company and larger shareholders
  • MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Hanken School of Economics

Elisabeth Norman

Board member

 

Ms Norman is Chairman of the Board EHB Hyresbostäder AB, Chairman of the Board Nivika Fastigheter AB (publ), Vice Chairman of the Board Sveriges Allmännytta, Board member Byggpartner i Dalarna AB (publ), Board member Örndalen Exploatering AB

  • Ownership in the Company: 1 500 shares (privately owned)
  • Board member since 2018
  • Independent in relation to the Company and larger shareholders
  • BA from Uppsala University

Victoria Skoglund

Board member

 

Victoria Skoglund works as a lawyer and has a Master of Laws from Stockholm University. Victoria has worked at various law firms since 2001 and is today a partner at Lindahls Advokatbyrå in Stockholm. Victoria specializes in public M&A, stock market law, corporate governance and association law.

  • Ownership in the Company: 3 747 shares
  • Board member since 2021
  • Independent in relation to the company and larger shareholders
  • Master of Laws from Stockholms Universitet

Stefan Gattberg

Board member

 

Mr. Gattberg has been involved in the establishment of Cibus when he was in charge of financing and introducing the portfolio to the capital market. During recent years he has led a series of sizeable real asset transactions as principal in the Nordics including both real estate and infrastructure. Mr. Gattberg is currently Founding Partner at Altaal, a principal led investment firm focusing on investments in alternative assets. Previous experience includes Head of Investment Banking and Board Member at Pareto Securities as well as CEO at Skuld UK.

  • Ownership in the Company: 
    13 816 shares
  • Board member since 2020
  • Independent in relation to the Company and larger shareholders
  • Master of Laws Lund University

Nils Styf

Board member

 

Mr Styf is President and CEO at Hemsö Fastighets AB. Other ongoing assignments is Board member in all wholly-owned and partly-owned subsidiaries of the Hemsö Group. Chairman of the Board, NP3 Fastigheter AB and member of the board, Bonava AB and Mattssons Fastighetsutveckling AB. Mr Styf has previous experience as Chief Investment Officer at Citycon, Director at Areim, Principal at Doughty Hanson & Co, Associate at Deutsche Bank and Analyst at Merrill Lynch.

  • Ownership in the Company: 7 500 shares
  • Board member since 2022
  • Independent in relation to the company and larger shareholders
  • MSc in Economics and Business Administration, Stockholm School of Economics.

Johan Rippe

Principal auditor

 

The Annual General Meeting elected PwC as auditing firm.

Management Team

Cibus board, management and partners bring together a strategic combination of skill-sets within real estate, finance, and grocery market experience.

Christian Fredrixon

CEO

 

Mr Fredrixon has more than 20 years' experience from real estate and financial markets in general and the daily-goods real estate segment in particular. Most recently, he served as the CIO for Vasakronan AB and as Board Member representing AMF Pension in a real estate grocery JV with ICA. Prior to this he was CIO for ICA Real Estate, partner at Catella Corporate Finance within real estate corporate finance and Property Financing and Treasury Manager at UK listed real estate company CLS Holdings plc. He started his career in the UK at HSBC Investment Bank.

  • Ownership in the Company: 10,000 shares + 100 000 share options
  • CEO since 15 January 2024
  • MSc in Economics and Business Administration, Stockholm School of Economics

Pia-Lena Olofsson

CFO & Head of IR

 

Mrs Olofsson is an experienced CFO and held the position at the Large Cap listed digital bank Collector AB (publ) during six years. Further, Mrs Olofsson has previously held several senior positions at, among others, Bure Equity AB (publ) and Visma AB.

  • Ownership in the Company: 7 898 shares + 115 000 share options
  • CFO & Head of IR since May 2019
  • Executive MBA from University of Warwick and MBA from Gothenburg University

Lauri Tiensuu

COO

 

Mr. Tiensuu has extensive experience from Advium Corporate Finance Ltd where he advised clients in real estate transactions. Before current position, he was the CIO Finland at Cibus from January 2020.

  • Ownership in the company: 10 349 shares + 125 000 share options
  • COO since March 2023. Employed since January 2020. Before current position, he was the Head of Business Development at Cibus from March 2022 and CIO Finland from January 2020.
  • MSc in Technology from Aalto University

Peter Lövgren

CIO Sweden

 

Mr Lövgren has extensive experience from the real estate business. He was employed by Hufvudstaden as, among other things, Head of Transaction and Senior Property Manager. Peters latest position was at Genova as Head of Business Development where he has been responsible for the company's transactions.

 

  • Ownership in the Company: 10 849 shares + 80 000 share options
  • CIO Sweden since August 2020
  • MSc in Civil Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology

Marcus Kruus

CIO Denmark & Norway

 

Marcus Kruus has more than 20 years of experience from real estate, property development and construction industries across Europe. He has experience from business development, investments and asset management activities. Before joining Cibus, Marcus Kruus had long-term interim assignments as Head of Transactions at Tre Kronor Property Investment and Head of Asset Management at Catella Property Asset Management. Further, Marcus Kruus has previously held several senior executive positions at, among others, Obligo Real Estate, Realkapital Partners and NCC.

  • Ownership in the Company: 6 000 shares + 40 000 share options
  • CIO Norway since August 2021
  • Executive MBA from University of Gothenburg and MSc in Civil Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology

Iiris Eestilä

CIO Finland

 

Mrs. Eestilä has broad experience in the real estate business. Before joining Cibus, Mrs. Eestilä worked as a Director at Newsec Investment Management, where the team acted as a local partner to international investors advising them in property transactions and investment management activities. Prior to Newsec, Mrs. Eestilä worked in real estate transactions at Aventum and has also been employed by Logicor and Sponda.  

  • Ownership in the company: 1 050 shares + 35 000 share options
  • CIO Finland since June 2022
  • MSc in Technology from Aalto University