Peter Sterky

Chief Executive Officer

2017 - Current

Trift Capital is a Nordic multi billion dollar family office helping entrepreneurs build great companies.

Board Member

2019

Board Member

2018

Board Member

2011

Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer

2010 - 2015

As COO, Peter was responsible for Spotify's tactical execution, managing the global senior executive team. As CFO, Peter led and oversaw finance, analytics, legal and HR. During his period as COO and CFO of Spotify, the company expanded from 7 markets to 58, saw its annualized recurring revenue grow from €60M to €2B, and its headcount grow from ~100 to ~1800. Led and raised ~$1B equity to support growth. Served as board member of various Spotify entities around the world.

Chief Financial Officer

2003 - 2010

Promoted twice to become CFO and member of the management team. Pharmadule was a $150M innovative, private equity backed, supplier of pharmaceutical production facilities to big pharma clients mainly in the US, EU and Asia.

Investment Manager

2001 - 2002

$60M early stage VC focused on Scandinavian IT and Internet. Temporary CEO assignment to restructure a portfolio company.

Chief Financial Officer

2000 - 2001

Established, built and led finance during start-up phase when TradeDoubler became Europe's leading online performance based marketing network. Built the business plan. Led, negotiated and raised $10M. Expanded operations from 5 employees to ~60 and an annualized run-rate revenue of ~$10M from zero. Temporarily oversaw marketing as Chief Marketing Officer.

Analyst

1997 - 1999

Analyst at $120M private equity fund focused on mid-size buy-and-build opportunities in Northern Europe.

Software Developer

1988 - 1995

As a 7 year old, Peter got his first home computer. At age 9, he built his first computer game on the Commodore 64, and at age 14 he managed and had developed Sweden's #1 bulletin board system focused on multi-user games. This passion of his led to a number of part-time assignments around Sweden where he, among others, developed: * GUI and comms module for two Japanese nuclear reactor simulator projects (EuroSim) * Product and research analysis databases (Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry) * Migrated GL software to new technical platform and built a prototype for audit software (Hogia) * Developed integration module for internal databases (Götaverken Energy)