Team

The Enigio team includes experienced computer engineers, researchers, software developers, and senior professionals from the financial sector. The team is especially strong in document technology, archival science, cryptography, DLT, relevant legal frameworks and banking.

Management team

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Patrik Zekkar

CEO

M.Sc Business Administration & Economics. Held several senior positions in different organisations within the financial sector, with focus on developing and operating products and services towards the trade and supply chain area. Additionally, with substantial experience as board member in commercial blockchain platform initiatives and from industry interest organisations.

Mats Stengård

CTO

M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering. 20+ years within IT, product development and management. Expert knowledge with regards to blockchain, qualified electronic time-stamping, e-Archives and digitalisation. Experience from multiple sectors like financial, retail and government.

Amanda Evans

Chief Growth Officer

Amanda is a commercial leader with extensive experience driving business growth and operations across a wide range of industries, including broadcasting, media, consumer goods, hospitality and health tech and has now joined Enigio as Chief Growth Officer.

Yasmin Damoun

Head of Finance, Control & HR

Yasmin is a financial professional with more than 12 years’ experience from working in global media service businesses. She has been in various roles but has the last 7 years been focused on business and financial controlling. Yasmin has extensive experience from working in organizations during periods of rapid growth.

Sales and marketing team

Göran Almgren

Head of Sales, New Markets and Lending

M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering. 20+ years within IT, exchange technology and banking systems. Long experience within sales, project management and executive management roles. Has managed several major implementation projects of banking systems.

Lars Hansén

Senior advisor

B.Sc. Business & Administration. Extensive professional experience as Chief Risk Officer and various positions as CEO in IT and finance companies.

Gunnar Collin

Head of Sales Trade Finance

M. Sc. Business Administration and Economics. Senior operations professional with long and extensive experience from the financial sector in different organisations, geographies and cultural settings.

Katrin Lindholm

Marketing Advisor

Long experience in marketing and communications from the financial sector. Since 1982, she has worked for both SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) and the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Sweden. Held positions such as Head of Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategists, Project leader, Team Leader etc.

Ulf Eggefors

Head of Sales Transport & Logistics

Ulf has held various leading positions at SEB in Stockholm and London, CellMark AB, Swedbank and lately part of the executive management team at Hoist Finance AB.

Alex Waites

Sales Manager

10 years experience in regulatory financial services within the UK market, with extensive experience of operational and I.T change with a customer and regulatory focus.

Market advisors

André Casterman

A Fintech consultant, advising clients on payments, trade finance, capital markets and digital assets. 20+ years at SWIFT, leading various innovations in the inter-bank payments, corporate treasury, and trade finance markets. During that time he established an institutional partnership between SWIFT and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and created the first digital trade settlement instrument. Chairs the Fintech Committee of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA).

Hrvoje Stancic

PhD, Full professor 20+ years of experience as a researcher in the field of digitisation and digital preservation as well as teaching information and archival science. Author of 80+ scientific publications. Editor of the book "Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment". President of the Croatian ISO/TC 307 mirror committee on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. CEO of Highflott d.o.o.

John Bugeja

Trade, supply chain and invoice finance specialist with more than 40 years’ experience in senior leadership roles with HSBC, NatWest, RBS, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group. Managing Director of Trade Advisory Network. Expert in origination, risk and governance, product management and development, business development, organisation design, change management, process facilitation, training and management development. A member of the drafting group of ICC rules for Digital Trade Transactions (URDTT). Co-author of the ICC Academy’s Advanced Supply Chain Finance online course.

Lionel Taylor

Trade, supply chain and invoice finance specialist and consultant. Held senior leadership roles with RBS, Rabobank, Citibank and Lloyds Banking Group and non-bank independents. Managing Director of Trade Advisory Network Limited. Co-author of the ICC Academy’s Advanced Supply Chain Finance online course. Working with government agencies, banks, independent funders, investors and others who are looking to develop, promote and extend trade and supply chain finance in the region.

Engin Senel

B.Sc. Engineering & MBA

Engin brings with him two decades of institutional coverage, global management and leadership roles for global leaders HSBC and Citigroup, across various geographies. Engin provides advisory and consultancy services in finance, strategy and business development space for fintech and tech companies. His global expertise, experience in C-suite client engagement and in-depth knowledge about various industries with a highly entrepreneurial and forward-thinking approach has upscaled many businesses and institutions throughout his career.

Willem Kok

Commodity Trade, Supply Chain & Trade Finance specialist with 40+ years experience in senior leadership roles with Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, ATB; responsible for trade sales for key accounts in the Natural Resources sector. Followed by a short career in shipping & logistics within Maersk (setting up the Trade Finance Unit in the Netherlands supported by IBM). Owner of Trade Finance Advisory boutique. Expert in sales origination, trade product management, business development, transformation and qualified mentor. An export specialist and writer for TreasuryXL in the Netherlands.

Julien Achard

With over 20 years in the banking industry, Julien worked as Project Manager, Trade Finance and Supply Chain Product Manager, Senior Sales Manager, Deputy Head of Transaction Banking Asia Pacific and Head of Sales Asia Pacific for Transaction Banking. He worked with some of the biggest banks in Europe and in Asia such as CALYON, CACIB and HSBC and created his own consultancy boutique.

Stephen Sandiford

With 30 years' experience in UK Residential and BTL mortgages. Stephen has worked across most aspects of mortgage lending at a senior level for large and small lenders, He has recently worked as a consultant for firms across the UK mortgage industry and led a project to design and build a new, digital mortgage origination system.

Board Members

Torgny Gunnarsson

Chairman

30 years of international experience in the IT industry - primarily within software, security, cloud and digitalisation. The majority of his career has been spent on the international arena, managing cross-functional teams across the Nordics, Baltics, EMEA and US.

Carl Knutsson

Vice chairman

Senior Management and Finance Professional. Project management and process-oriented workflow. Genuine interest and hands-on experience in business development, strategy and M&A.

Göran Almgren

Co-founder and board member

Lars Hansén

Board member

B.Sc. Business & Administration. Extensive professional experience as Chief Risk Officer and various positions as CEO in IT and finance companies.

André Casterman

Board member

A Fintech consultant, advising clients on payments, trade finance, capital markets and digital assets. 20+ years at SWIFT, leading various innovations in the inter-bank payments, corporate treasury, and trade finance markets. During that time he established an institutional partnership between SWIFT and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and created the first digital trade settlement instrument. Chairs the Fintech Committee of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA).

Lucas de Mendoza

Board member

15+ years in management positions mainly in SaaS and Fintech industries. Combines his strong financial and M&A background with a broad experience in scale-up sales and marketing strategies, culture and team transformation.

Björn Yrlid

Board member

Holds an LL.M. (Master of Laws). General Counsel of MOOR Holding AB, one of two Swedish family offices invested in Enigio. 25+ years of hands-on experience from mergers and acquisitions, IT and labour law, negotiations, board assignments and operational leadership in international working environments both in the U.S. and Europe. Has a keen interest in company development.