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Investment Team

Ulf Frykhammar

Portfolio Manager / Managing Partner

Ulf is Norron’s Managing Director and co-founder of Norron AB. He has a BSc in Economics from University of Linköping in 1989. Ulf was an Asset Manager at Enskilda Kapitalförvaltning, between 1989 and 1994. After that, he worked three years in Hong Kong, with partial responsibility for SEB's Asset Management in Asia. When returning to Sweden, Ulf became responsible for SEB’s Nordenfonder (Nordic funds) and between 1999 and 2003 he set up and managed SEB’s Hedgefond. He was co-founder and member of the management of Catella Hedgefond between 2003 and 2010. Ulf was a partner and a board member at Catella Capital 2008-2010.

ulf.frykhammar@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 41

Ulf Frykhammar

Gustaf Sjögren

Portfolio Manager

Gustaf is co-founders of Norron AB. He has got a master in finance from the University of Stockholm in 1982. Prior to Norron, Gustaf was an Institutional Broker at Handelsbanken between 1986 and 1991. After that he became Fund Manager at Handelsbanken Fonder, responsible for the Reavinst Fond. In 1998, Gustaf was a co-founder of Catella Fonder, and became a partner in 2008. He was Managing Director and responsible Fund Manager for Catella’s Reavinstfond between 1998 and 2003 and was also one of the co-founders and Asset Managers of Catella Hedgefond until 2010.

gustaf.sjogren@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 42

Gustaf Sjögren

Jan Törnstrand

Portfolio Manager

Jan has got a master in finance from University of Linköping in 1989. He became Fixed Income Manager at Nordea in 1990, thereafter became partner and Asset Manager at United Securities Fondkommission, responsible for their Fixed Income portfolio. Between 1996 and 2005, Jan was Asset Manager at Svensk Exportkredit - Treasury Group, was CFO at Kaupting Bank between 2005 and 2006. After that Jan became responsible for all Fixed Income management at Catella primarily for Catella Avkastningsfond and Catella Likviditetsfond. Jan was also a member of Catella’s Hedge Fund team and became partner at Catella Fonder between 2008 and 2010.

jan.tornstrand@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 47

Jan Törnstrand

Peter Werleus

Portfolio Manager

Peter has got a Master of Science from Lund University. He has an extensive experience in analysis and portfolio management. In 1999 Peter began as an equity analyst at Orkla Securities. Four years later he went to Handelsbanken working with equity research as well as being responsible for the Telecom Group. 2004 Peter began at HQ Bank, where he was responsible for portfolio allocation. Since 2008, Peter has been active portfolio manager at Carnegie, and the manager responsible for Carnegie Corporate Bond. In November 2012 Peter took his role as portfolio manager for Norron Premium.

peter.werleus@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 46

Peter Werleus

Marcus Plyhr

Portfolio Manager

Marcus joined Norron in May 2014 as an Assistant Portfolio Manager supporting the investment team with portfolio, risk management and company analysis. In the summer of 2018, Marcus was promoted to Portfolio Manager.
Marcus started his career at Libertyship Capital in U.S, working as an assistant trader for their special situations proprietary trading desk, between 2013-2014. Prior to this, Marcus graduated from Sierra Nevada College, NV, with a BSc degree in Financial Economics. During the last two years during his studies he worked as an intern for Sierra Angels, a small boutique VC firm providing capital to startup companies in California and Nevada. Marcus was part of the university’s ski team competing for the university. Achieving a top-three overall Academic All-American and became national champion in alpine skiing among universities in 2010, 2011 & 2012.

marcus.plyhr@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 48

Marcus Plyhr

Johan Solini

Portfolio Manager

Johan studied economics at Uppsala University and then spent a year in Australia, where he studied capital investment and finance at the University of Melbourne. He has also studied business analysis and company valuation at the London School of Economics. Johan started at Norron in September 2018. He has previously worked at Avanza but most recently he was at Redeye, where he worked as an Analyst focusing on tech companies. Johan has played football for Gefle IF in the Swedish football league, Allsvenskan, but had to end his career due to an injury. Johan is the Portfolio Manager of Norron Sustainable Equity.

johan.solini@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 43

Johan Solini

Oscar Sjögren

Quantitative Analyst

Oscar did his Master of Science in Financial Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Prior to that he studied Economics and Mathematics at Lund University. During his studies in Lund, he took part in an exchange program and spent two terms at University of California, Berkeley.

Oscar started his working career at ABG Sundal Collier where he was as a summer intern in Equity Research. He then moved on to Handelsbanken, first as an intern and then as a Trading Assistant in Market Making followed by his most recent role there as an FX Option Market Maker.

Oscar joined Norron as a Quantitative Analyst in September 2018.

Interests: Oscar is a keen golfer and tennis player.

oscar.sjogren@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 56

Oskar Sjögren

Additional Staff

Alexander Zetterquist

Operations (CEO)

Alexander has got a master in finance and bachelor degree in economics from University of Umeå in 2000. Between 2000 and 2007 he was Manager Operations (responsible for back office, credits approvals, risk etc.) and member of the management team at E-Trade. In 2008 Alexander became Head of Middle Office at Straumur Burdaras Bank. After that he became Head of Back Office for money market at Nordea Bank. In October 2010, Alexander became Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Norron AB. Since november 2012 Alexander is the CEO of Norron AB.

alexander.zetterquist@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 44

Alexander Zetterquist

Jesper Laudon

COO & Sustainability Manager

Jesper studied law at Uppsala university. During his studies, Jesper worked at the law firm Hellström. Upon completion of his studies, Jesper joined the international law firm Bird & Bird in their Stockholm office.

Jesper started at Norron Asset Management AB in November 2017. He is working with compliance and his responsibility is amongst others to provide support and guidance in line with legislation and monitor so that the company complies with current regulatory requirements both internally and externally.

Since 2023, Jesper holds the role as COO and is also responsible for Norron's sustainability work.

jesper.laudonmeyer@norron.com
+46 8 555 069 52

Jesper Laudon

Hans Bale

Head of Norron, Norway

Hans has got a Master of Science from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in 1990. He has more than 20 years asset management and investment banking experience from Nordea, SEB and Fondsfinans. Following five years with corporate finance in Nordea, Hans was from 1998 responsible for SEB Asset Management’s Norwegian equity portfolios, including a Norwegian equity fund and five discretionary mandates. In the period 2003 – 2005 Hans was responsible for SEB Merchant Banking securities financing in Norway and Denmark. In 2005 Hans established SEB’s Asset Management division in Norway, a complete asset management company with all necessary licenses and five registered mutual funds. He was also a part of SEB executive management team in Norway. In the period 2011 – 2015 has was Partner Corporate Finance at Fondsfinans.

hans.bale@norron.com
+47 909 24 832

Hans Bale

Sebastian Udden

Sales Manager

Sebastian is educated at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has worked in the finance industry since 2000. During his years in the industry, he has worked with sales and business development at various fund companies to institutions and third-party distributors in most asset classes such as equity, fixed income, hedge, private equity and real estate funds. Until 2006, Sebastian was employed by Norwegian ODIN Fonder's Swedish branch in Stockholm and from 2006 to 2011 he worked for Auda Alternative Solutions with the whole of Scandinavia as a base. After that, he was employed by Catella Fonder and most recently Sebastian was a partner and co-founder of Nordic Cross Asset Management during the years 2016 - 2021. Sebastian has been responsible for sales in Sweden at Norron since June 2021.

sebastian.udden@norron.com
+ 46 708 28 91 11

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Sebastian Udden