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Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is made up of between five and nine ordinary members. The members are elected at the annual general meeting for the period up until the conclusion of the following annual general meeting.

Eva Färnstrand

Eva Färnstrand

Chairman of the Board

MSc in Engineering.

Born in 1951. Elected in 2008 and Chairman since 2017. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit Committee.

Other assignments: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Chairman of Infranord AB and C-Green Technology AB.
Chariman of Forsen AB.

Previous experience: Plant Manager at Södra Cell Mönsterås, CEO of Tidningstryckarna AB, Business Area Manager at SCA. Chairman of Profilgruppen AB and Inlandsinnovation AB. Board member of e.g. Saminvest AB, Indutrade AB, Domsjö fabriker AB, Södra Cell AB, Handelsbanken regionbank Stockholm City and Schibsted Trykk AS.

Marie Berglund

Marie Berglund

MSc in Biology. Born in 1958. Elected in 2019. Member of the Remuneration Committee.

Other assignments: Raw Material Manager and Sustainability Coordinator at NCC Industry AB. Board member of Boliden AB, BalticSea 2020 Foundation and the Advisory Council of the County Administrative Board of Västernorrland.

Previous experience: Previously held position of external CEO of Bioendev AB, Environmental Manager at Botniabanan AB and Group Ecologist and Environmental Audit Leader in Mo och Domsjö AB. Chairman of Eurocon
Consulting AB and MIS Environmental and Sustainability Auditors in Sweden. Board member of e.g.Swedish Forest Agency, The Bothnian Sea Water Delegation, the Swedish World Wildlife Fund WWF, Enetjärn Natur
AB and the Delegation for the Promotion of Environmentally Friendly Technology.

Johan Kuylenstierna

Johan Kuylenstierna

Ph. Lic. Physical Geography. Born in 1965. Elected in 2019. Member of the Property Committee.

Other assignments: Adjunct professor and honorary doctorate at Stockholm University. Deputy Chairman of the Climate Policy Council. Member of the Rectors’ Council for Sustainable Development at Stockholm University, Board member WWF Sweden, Board member University of Gothenburg, Board member Ecogain AB, Board member Axfoundation, Owner Modulator AB, Member of the Research Policy Advisory Committee to the Swedish Government.

Previous experience: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture. Board member Smarta Samtal Foundation. Former CEO of Stockholm Environment Institute. Has also worked at the United Nations in New York, Geneva and Rome.

Kerstin Lindberg Göransson

Kerstin Lindberg Göransson

MSc Business and Economics. Born in 1956. Elected in 2019.

Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Other assignments: CEO of Akademiska Hus AB since 2011. Board member of Hemnet Group AB. Formerly Airport Director Stockholm-Arlanda Airport and CFO and Deputy CEO of Scandic Group.

Previous experience: Chairman of Svensk Bilprovning AB and K2 National Knowledge Centre for Public Transport and former member of the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, Jernhusen AB, Strömma Sjöfarts och Turism AB, Grand Hotel AB, OEM AB and Swegon AB.

Christina Lindbäck

Christina Lindbäck

Leif Ljungqvist

Leif Ljungqvist

MSc Business and Economics. Born in1971. Elected in 2016. Member of the
Rremuneration and Audit Committees.

Other assignments: Company Managers and Deputy Director of the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation's corporate governance unit. Samhall AB and Teracom AB.

Previous experience: Board member of Apoteket AB, Statens Bostadstransformation AB, Akademiska Hus AB, AB Svensk Bilprovning, Vasallen AB and AB Bostadsgaranti. Previously equity analyst Kaupthing Bank, Nordiska Fondkommission and Hagströmer & Qviberg

Elisabet Salander Björklund

Elisabet Salander Björklund

Sven Wird

Sven Wird

MSc in Engineering. Born in 1951. Elected in 2016. Member of the Property Committee.

Other assignments: Chairman of Nordiska Virkesbörsen AB. Board member of Rise Research Institutes of Sweden AB.

Previous experience: Technology Director, Holmen AB. Leading positions at SCA, Norske Skog France, Modo AB and Modo Paper AB. Formerly Chairman of the Board of SunPine AB and Board member of Innventia AB, SP Technical
Research Institute of Sweden and Melodea Ltd.

Employee representatives

Kenneth Andersson

Kenneth Andersson

Harvester operator

Machine operator. Born in 1969. Elected in 2017.

Employee representative appointed by the Swedish Forest and Wood Trade Union. Member of the Audit Committee.

Lars Djerf

Lars Djerf

Harvester operator

Deputy member of the Board

Machine operator. Born in 1968. Elected in 2013.

Employee representative appointed by the Swedish Forest and Wood Trade Union.

Thomas Esbjörnsson

Thomas Esbjörnsson

Deputy member of the Board

Logistician. Born in 1962. Elected in 2015.

Employee representative.

Sara Östh

Sara Östh

MSc Forestry. Forest management leader. Born in 1983. Elected in 2018.

Employee representative.
Member of the Property Committee