Corporate governance

Group Management

Florian Hellmich
Florian Hellmich
CEO
,
since
2015
Education:

Economics and Business Administration from Vienna University.

Florian Hellmich is the CEO of Pomegranate Investment AB. Between 2004 and 2015 he acted as Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Distribution of Renaissance Capital Ltd. based in Moscow, London and African offices. His previous employment was with Creditanstalt in Central Eastern Europe in Equity Research and Equity Sales (1994 to 2004). Florian is an expert in Stock Market transactions, fund raising and has managed and marketed over 300 IPO’s, SPO’s, Accelerated Book-buildings during his career, particularly during the time of Privatisations in Central Eastern as Economies evolved and entire Industries got stock exchange listed over two decades. An unprecedented period of time.

Peter Axelsson
Peter Axelsson
CFO
,
since
2022
Education:

M.Sc. in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics & Swedish Master of Laws Degree, LL.M., Stockholm University.

Peter Axelsson is employed as CFO of Pomegranate Investment AB since October 2022. He joined Pomegranate from SEB, where he held several positions, including: Group Sanctions Officer, Head of Risk Management (Baltic Division), CFO JSC SEB Bank Ukraine, & Project Manager leading an M&A-team successfully divesting SEB Ukraine (retail) and transferring Large Corporate clients to a newly required bank licence (still active).

Board of Directors

Per Brilioth
Per Brilioth
Chairman of the Board of Directors
,
since
2014
Education:

Degree in Business Administration from Stockholm University and a Master of Finance from London Business School.

Between 1994 and 2000, Per Brilioth was head of the Emerging Markets section at Hagströmer & Qviberg. He is the Chairman of the board of directors and CEO of VNV Global. VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation, with a focus on companies with network effects. It has a successful history as investment company in the Swedish stock market since 1996.

Anders F. Börjesson
Anders F. Börjesson
Member of the Board of Directors
,
since
2014
Education:

LL.M. from Stockholm University and an LL.M. from NYU School of Law.

Anders F. Börjesson is a member of the Board of Directors and is also the General Counsel of VNV Global AB. He has also served as acting General Counsel of Pomegranate Investment AB and Vostok Emerging Finance Ltd and as CEO of RusForest AB (publ). Previously, Anders worked as an associate at Mannheimer Swartling’s offices in St Petersburg and Moscow and headed their group on mergers, acquisitions and corporate law in Moscow in 2006-2008. He is a non-resident member of the New York Bar.

Nadja Borisova
Nadja Borisova
Member of the Board of Directors
,
since
2016
Education:

St. Petersburg Institute of Mechanics and a Certified Accountant Degree from ACCA in England.

Nadja Borisova is a member of the Board of Directors and is CFO of VNV Global. Nadja has previously held a number of positions including acting CFO of Pomegranate Investment AB and Vostok Emerging Finance Ltd, CFO for Varyag Resources, a Russia-focused private equity company, and finance positions at Cloetta-Fazer, The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Bottlers both in Sweden and in Russia.

Vladimir Glushkov
Vladimir Glushkov
Member of the Board of Directors
,
since
2018
Education:

Degree in International Economics from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, with additional CFA I and FSCM 5.0 certifications.

Vladimir was an Investment Director at Parus Capital in Moscow and is the co-founder of the Institute of Quantitative Finance, Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Mr Glushkov has previously also held position as member of the investment board of Run Capital, and various analyst positions. He is a member of the Independent Directors Association.

Michel Danechi
Michel Danechi
Member of the Board of Directors
,
since
2023
Education:

B.Sc. in Economics from the LSE and an MBA from London Business School.

Michel Danechi has 35 years of experience in equity derivatives and Emerging Markets. Michel previously ran multi-asset EM funds at DUET Asset Management and Armajaro Asset Management and before that was Head of Trading in EM at Lehman Brothers and UniCredit. Michel is currently a partner at a multifamily office.

Auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers AB, with Nicklas Kullberg as the auditor in charge has been the Company’s auditor since 2014.