Georgi Ganev

Employed: 2018

Nationality: Swedish

Born: 1976

Board positions: Board Director of Aira, Global Fashion Group and Reach for Change

Previous Experience: CEO of Dustin, CEO at Bredbandsbolaget and CMO at Telenor Sweden 

Education: M.Sc. in Information Technology from Uppsala University

Shareholding (including closely affiliated persons): 405,907 class B shares

Incentive shares: 293,030 (2024-29), 140,580 (2023-2028), 86,000 (2022-27), 70,000 (2021-2026), 62,400 (2020-25)

Georgi joined Kinnevik in 2018 from Dustin where he served as CEO between 2012-2017.  Prior to Dustin Georgi was CEO at Bredbandsbolaget between 2007-2010 and CMO at Telenor Sweden between 2010-2012, starting his career within the Kinnevik Group at Tele2 in 2002. Georgi is a Board Director of Aira, Tele2, Global Fashion Group and Reach for Change. Under Georgi’s leadership, Kinnevik has undertaken a strategic pivot, focusing on growth investments, becoming one of Europe’s leading listed growth investors. With his engineering background, Georgi is passionate about building transformational businesses using the power of technology to create new markets or redefine existing ones.

Georgi holds a MSc in Engineering in Information Technology from Uppsala University.