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Former Partner McKinsey, Managing Partner and co-founder of Cevian Capital
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Anna Storakers
Head of Group Strategy & Corporate Development, Nordea Bank AB, formerly with Goldman Sachs & Co and McKinsey & Co
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Hans Otterling,
Founding Partner, CEO Northzone Capital
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Carl Palmstierna, former Partner Goldman Sachs, Business Angel
‘Not only will Financial Times Guide to Corporate Valuation provide you with the basic understanding of corporate valuation, it also gives you an interesting insight into non-operational challenges that companies will face. And it does it all in an unexpectedly efficient and reader friendly manner. If you want to learn the basics and only have a few hours to spare, invest them into reading this book!’
Daniel Hummel
Head of Corporate Finance, Swedbank
‘In this highly accessible and reliable introduction to valuation, Messieurs Frykman and Tolleryd have succeeded in selecting only the essential building blocks in a topic that can otherwise be difficult to navigate. Indeed a guide, this book will prove handy to many of us and a breakthrough to some.’
Per Hedberg, Academic Director Stockholm School of Economics Russia
‘ This book provides an accessible and informative entry point to the vast topic of valuation. The book covers mechanics as well as how value is linked to intangibles, growth opportunities and industry structure, all the way providing clear examples of every key idea. The authors understand value: they know what is useful, what is practical and what is critical, and give any reader great guidance to the challenge of getting values right.’
Bo Becker Assistant Professor Harvard Business School
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Owner, Chairman, Acne Studios
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About the authors:
David Frykman is the CEO and owner of Fred Ventures, a private investment company. Previously, he was the CEO and main shareholder of Gymgrossisten (Nasdaq: GYM) and before that a Senior Vice President at Swedbank Markets Corporate Finance. David has also worked with venture capital at Novare Kapital and Spray Investment. In his different roles as owner, board member and CEO, David has conducted a large number of mergers and acquisitions, fund raisings and divestitures. David holds an MSc in economics and finance from Stockholm School of Economics and the Asian Institute of Management as well as a BSc in psychology from Stockholm University.
Jakob Tolleryd is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and investor behind a number of companies in the IT/Internet industry. Among them, Compricer; a price comparison site for services, Easyart; the leading European e-commerce company for art prints and Klikki; one of the leading online marketing consultants in Scandinavia. He is also the founder and former CEO of Carambole, a pan-European web service company and a founder of intellectual property consulting company Cogent IPC. Jakob is a regular lecturer and speaker regarding entrepreneurship, growth companies and corporate valuations. Jakob holds an MSc in economics and finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada.
Jakob Tolleryd and David Frykman are also the authors of Valuation of Growth Companies: methods and models for valuation of growth companies , written for The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
