Management

Readly's CEO and management team is responsible for daily operations and business development.

• Philip Lindqvist

  CEO

  Born: 1989

  Employed since: May 2023

  Current assignments: Board member fram^, Yoik AB and KILOPOND Holding AB (including subsidiaries). He is also a member of the advisory board at 8 Media Ventures Oy.

  Experience and previous positions: Philip Lindqvist has extensive experience from leading positions in media, content and digital subscription services. He was previously the managing director of the streaming service and pay tv broadcaster C More, and Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Distribution at TV4, C More and Finnish MTV. Philip has a background from The Boston Consulting Group.

  Education: BSc in Business & Economics, Stockholm School of Economics

  Holdings in the company: -
  

• Johan Adalberth

  Chief Financial Officer

  Born: 1979

  Employed since: September 2019

  Current assignments: Owner and board member in Ceqada AB.

  Experience and previous positions: Johan has experience from tech companies such as Klarna and Kry. He has also worked at Attendo for several years, where he played a significant role during their IPO in 2015. Before that, he worked as an auditor.

  Education: Master of Business administration, Uppsala University, Mechanical Engineering, Lund University.

  Holdings in the company: Owns 9,500 shares.

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• Ranj Begley

  Chief Content Officer

  Born: 1972

  Employed since: January 2014

  Current assignments: Advisory board member at Wiser Media.

  Experience and previous positions: Ranj set-up and grew Readly in the UK to its current position. Prior to Readly, Ranj held a number of senior management positions in publishing and fulfilment companies such as Dovetail, Highbury House, CDS Global and United Business Media Plc.

  Education: Heston School & College Business Administration.

  Holdings in the company: Owns 6,100 shares.

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• Frida Svensson

  Chief People Officer

  Born: 1983

  Employed since: August 2020

  Current assignments: Advisor to LucyTech.

  Experience and previous positions: Frida Svensson has ten years of experience from different HR roles in growth companies. She was HR manager at Betsson and Head of HR at LeoVegas. Before joining Readly, she was HR Director and Senior HR Advisor at Goodbye Kansas as part of the management team and responsible for the global HR strategy.

  Education: Frida Svensson holds a bachelor's degree within Human Resource Management from Stockholm University.

  Holdings in the company: Owns 1,000 shares.
  

• Marie-Sophie von Bibra

  Chief Marketing Officer

  Born: 1991

  Employed since: April 2016

  Current assignments: Member of the board of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Germany, member of the Advisory Board of Levy Health and Founder and Managing Director of MSVB Online Consulting.

  Experience and previous positions: Marie-Sophie has been part of the Readly journey for 6 years and developed the German market into the largest and fastest-growing core market. Her experience ranges from ecommerce and sales in a fast-paced fashion start-up, to all disciplines of digital marketing and brand building at her own marketing agency, as well as partnerships, expansion, customer success and subscriber growth during various marketing roles at Readly.

  Education: Business Studies with focus on Marketing at Bayes Business School, City University, London.

  Holdings in the company: Owns 16,750 shares and 12,000 warrants.
  

• Matti Zemack

  Chief Product and Technology Officer

  Born: 1973

  Employed since: January 2023

  Current assignments: Owner, CEO and board member of Zebuc Trading AB. Board member of Adlede AB and Advisor at Alaska Film&TV AB.

  Experience and previous positions: Matti has a background within investment and product development. Before joining Readly he held the role as Investment Director at Industrifonden, Sweden’s Venture Capital Fund, focusing on investments in Deep Tech and transformative innovation. Matti has also worked for Bonnier Ventures as investing Chief Technology Officer, and has been the CTO for Bonnier Group. In his roles, he has held several board assignments. Matti has broad tech engineering and product knowledge and has worked with many transformative products from start to scale up phases. His specialism in recent years has been in subscription services for streaming companies such as Viaplay and CMore. He brings much expertise within subscription services for video, machine learning algorithms and tech within school and education.

  Education: Engineering Physics, Master of Science Media Technology, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm.

  Holdings in the company: Owns no shares and 35 000 warrants.
  

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