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Joel Eriksson

Chief Strategy Officer at Persimmons

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Chief Strategy Officer

    2024 - Current

  • Board Member, Advisory Board, and Angel

    2012

    Board Member at Magmatic Games, which was successfully acquired by Moon Active Board Observer (Acting Board Member) at Instabridge, acquired by Degoo Board Observer (Acting Board Member) at Forza Football, recognized as a globally leading soccer app to date Advisory Board Member at Nebula Ventures (Lars-Henrik Friis Molin Family Office) Additionally, I had the opportunity to be a visiting Board Observer at iZettle, which was acquired by PayPal in a multi-billion USD deal, Neo Technology (the creator of Neo4j), and at Tictail, which was subsequently acquired by Shopify. Currently, I'm an Advisory Board Member at NewNative, a globally leading AI startup accelerator.

  • Vice President of Corporate Development

    2022 - 2024

    Strategic Partnerships, Special projects, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), and Financing

  • Vice President of Corporate Development

    2018 - 2021

    Also served in senior leadership roles across product, operations, and business intelligence during this period.

  • Head of Finance & Operations (CFO)

    2017 - 2019

    BetterDoctor was successfully sold to Quest Analytics on June 18, 2018. I was a part of the executive team and headed up the Finance and Operations. Co-led the exit to Quest and worked on integration June'18 to March'19 while also being the VP Ops at Quest.

  • Venture Capital Investor

    2012 - 2017

    Creandum is a leading venture capital firm and early backer of many successful tech companies incl. Spotify, iZettle, Depop, Klarna, Kahoot, Virta Health, Neo Technology (Neo4j), KRY, Epidemic Sound and Small Giant Games. Co-led, sourced and/or closely involved with 11 of Creandum's investments, whereof three have become multi billion dollar companies.

  • CEO & Founder (Board member from Oct 2012)

    2011 - 2014

    Helping corporations acquiring the next generation technologies through sourcing from the world's largest community of business incubators and accelerators. Company is still alive and thriving, and I am an active shareholder in the company.

  • Management Consultant & Founder

    2009 - 2010

    Delivered projects to senior executives, including product management, go-to-market strategy, and change management, for blue-chip clients such as Sandvik, StoraEnso, and Cloetta. This work resulted in a highly successful track record and exceptionally satisfied clients. However, it became necessary to prioritize UBI as it began to gain traction.

  • Quality Assurance Engineer

    2008 - 2009

    Led a cross-functional quality team, carrying out material testing and statistical analyses. Developed and implemented a management system according to ISO 14001, which led to significant amounts of resources and money saved.

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