ADINE GRATE, NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Non-executive director
Appointed: July 2020
Committee membership: AUDIT COMMITTEE and RISK COMMITTEE
Skills and experience: A highly experienced board director, in both non-executive and executive roles, with more than 25 years of experience in international business, with a primary sectoral interest over the years in TMT and financial services where-in she has had a particular focus on technological and business innovation and has been involved both in the development and implementation of transformative corporate plans and the successful completion of large M&A.
Career experience: A long and distinguished career with Investor AB (the leading owner of Nordic-based international companies controlled by the Wallenberg family) where she was an executive vice president and a director of the Executive Board, with a broad portfolio of senior responsibilities including heading corporate finance, corporate governance, equity capital markets, public affairs, strategy and co-managing the portfolio of listed investments.
Recent board directorships have included roles as non-executive director of Sky Plc (the leading listed media company in Europe until its acquisition by Comcast) between 2013 and 2018, Sampo Plc (the largest listed financial holding group in the Nordic region) between 2011 to 2019, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (an international biopharmaceutical company) between 2010 and 2016, director of Three Group (a major telecom group belonging to the Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings) between 2001- 2019 and of AP7, the Swedish state-owned investment fund where she was Vice Chairman between 2011 and 2019.
Current external commitments: Senior advisor to CK Hutchison Holdings, a Council Member of the Swedish Chamber Commerce in the UK, director of a small number of private companies and runs her own business advisory company.
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