Åsa Otterlund

Åsa Otterlund has personal experience of working in all corporate bodies in the corporate governance model – owner/investor, board chairman/member, CEO/management team and auditor.

For Åsa, active board work is a very important and central component in building and securing value in the business, from early phase to later phase.  She has been actively working as a board member/chairman for more than thirty years and in recent years also in election committee assignments. She has experience from both listed and unlisted environments and has historically had a specific focus on growth companies. Today, she works as a member of a number of growth company boards with a focus on, among other things, SaaS services.

For just over six years, Åsa has also been working with the recruitment of board and management team roles and today is part of the international executive search and leadership development network Signium, where Åsa's focus is ownership and board issues. Before that, she was active within Almi Invest, first as Investment Manager and then CFO for Almi Invest's fund structure with responsibility for building board competence in Almi Invest's portfolio companies.

Åsa has been teaching corporate governance and board work for several years, where she has, among other things, focused on ownership and board issues with a focus on growth companies and what companies in listed and unlisted environments can learn from each other in terms of corporate governance. Through her various assignments in corporate governance, she is constantly replenishing herself with new practical experience and examples in board, ownership and management matters.

Åsa has a bachelor's degree in economics from Uppsala University and a Master of Art in European Integration from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is a certified board member at Styrelseakademien, Effective Company Directorship and Higher Board Education, as well as Certified Business Architect at Cordial. Åsa is an accredited teacher for the board education Right Focus for SME/Effective Company Directorship.