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Meet the people shaping Nordic B Together 2026

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Jenni Swadding

Patagonia

Speaker // Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder

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Jenni Swadding is Country Manager for Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Baltics at Patagonia, with more than 20 years in the sports and outdoor industry. She works to highlight the potential of business to help solve the environmental and social problems we face, and brings that lens to how Patagonia is run.

Tessa van Soest

B Lab Benelux

Speaker  //  The Nature of Business is Nature’s Business

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Tessa van Soest is Director at B Lab Benelux, overseeing movement growth in the Benelux region. She initiated the award-winning “Onboarding Nature” initiative with Earth Law Centre and Nyenrode Business University, and co-authored a case study on granting rights of nature to the Wadden Sea. She holds several advisory board seats in the Netherlands.

Andreas Rasche

Copenhagen Business School

Speaker  //  The Great Sustainability Reset

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Andreas Rasche is Professor at Copenhagen Business School and Associate Dean of the Full-Time MBA Program, having joined from Warwick Business School in 2012. His research examines corporate governance, sustainability, and the political role of firms, and he has advised the UN Global Compact and Novo Nordisk’s Sustainability Advisory Committee.

David Ekelund

Icebug

Speaker // Why B Corps Don’t Just Mind Our Own Business

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David Ekelund is CEO & Co-Founder at Icebug, which he built with his mother Eliza around superior-traction footwear. Twenty-five years on, Icebug has a loyal following across Scandinavia, the US and Canada. He also serves as President of the European Outdoor Group and is a vocal advocate for business with purpose beyond ownership profit.

Charlotte Skovgaard

Merkur Andelskasse

Speaker  // Why B Corps Don’t Just Mind Our Own Business

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Charlotte Skovgaard is CEO of Merkur Andelskasse, a Danish cooperative bank dedicated to sustainable, values-based finance, where she has worked since 2019. She brings experience from both the financial sector and management consulting. She is driven by the conviction that a bank can be financially sound and resilient while creating positive impact for people, environment and society.

Bjarney Harðardóttir

66°North

Speaker  // Why B Corps Don’t Just Mind Our Own Business

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Bjarney Harðardóttir is Chief Brand Officer and co-owner of 66°North,the Icelandic outerwear brand she acquired with her husband in 2011. She has helped transform it from a heritage Icelandic company into a globally recognised brand with flagship stores in Copenhagen and London. As 66°North turns 100, she now leads its sustainability and circularity strategy.

Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph

Rudolph Care

Speaker // Why B Corps Don’t Just Mind Our Own Business

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Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph is CEO and Founder of Rudolph Care. Her beauty activism began in 2006, when a Greenpeace blood test revealed chemicals from beauty products in her system — a discovery that became a mission, and the mission became a responsible beauty brand. Andrea and Rudolph Care hold themselves to strict certifications like B Corp and the Nordic Swan Ecolabel, and stay transparent about the trade-offs behind every product, because real change is rarely convenient.

Gitte Rosholm

B Lab Nordics

Speaker // What is the Nature of Business?

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Gitte Rosholm is B Lab Nordic’s Manager. She has been driving change for a living, leading consultancies and large-scale cultural transformation projects for Nordic companies. She fell in love with B Lab when she saw the urgency of the ecological and social crises and the need for more businesses to take responsibility for their impact.

Jonna Ekroos

Impact Agency Fabrik

Speaker  // Find Your Voice Between Greenwashing and Greenhushing

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Jonna Ekroos is Chief Growth Officer and Partner at Impact Agency Fabrik, a Finnish B Corp certified agency working in purpose-driven branding, communications and ESG performance. She challenges organizations to think bigger about business’s role in solving society’s biggest challenges, turning sustainability ambitions into strategies that drive growth, credibility and measurable impact.

Martin Kallur

Patagonia

Speaker // Find Your Voice Between Greenwashing and Greenhushing

Richard Collier

Db

Speaker // Find Your Voice Between Greenwashing and Greenhushing

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Richard Collier is CEO of Db, a Scandinavian travel brand. With more than 30 years leading Jack Wolfskin, Helly Hansen and others, he has built ESG functions and helped shape the outdoor industry’s approach to sustainability. His focus throughout has been building brands that grow responsibly.

Mette Lind Skriver

Sophie Bille Brahe

Speaker  // Learn from the V2 Frontrunners

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Mette Lind Skriver is Head of Production, Logistics and ESG at the jewelry house Sophie Bille Brahe. Her role ensures that production never compromises on ESG.

Helene Vad Bredo

Merkur Andelskasse

Speaker  // Learn from the V2 Frontrunners

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Helene Vad Bredo is Compliance and Risk Analyst and ESG Lead at Merkur Cooperative Bank. She works at the intersection of risk management, compliance and sustainability. Helene was responsible for leading Merkur’s recent B Corp recertification process.

Linda Ingolfsdottir

Once Upon Publishing

Speaker  // Learn from the V2 Frontrunners

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Linda Ingolfsdottir is Chief Value Chain & Sustainability Officer at Once Upon Publishing, where she leads sustainability, supply chain and customer service operations across a team of eleven. With 13 years of experience in sustainability, she has worked across sectors and borders from the public sector to the textile industry, including hands-on work in Bangladesh and China and now in the printing sector. She brings a cross-industry perspective to what it truly means to embed responsibility throughout a business.

Andri Árnason

Takk

Speaker // Energize your Talent

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Andri Árnason is Managing Director of Takk, a certified B Corp that builds communities of monthly donors and members for charities, patient organisations, universities, political parties and sports clubs across the Nordics from Reykjavík and Copenhagen. Takk treats fundraising as a people business first, and its own people agree: employees voted it Company of the Year in Iceland three years in a row.

Morten Stausholm

Intrepid Travel

Speaker // Energize your Talent

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Morten Stausholm is Operations Manager Nordic at Intrepid Travel. A traveller through a lifetime of tour leading and handling in all corners of the world, Morten Stausholm now runs the day-to-day operations of Intrepid Travel in the Nordic countries. He’s a vivid ambassador for the B Corp and sustainable values that Intrepid lives by.

Nille Skalts

Märk Cph

Speaker // Give Nature a Voice

Mhairi Letcher

B Lab Europe

Speaker // Give Nature A Voice

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Mhairi is Head of Legal & Governance for B Lab Europe. With her background in leading operations, governance and legal strategy for global clients and consultancies, she has joined B Lab Europe to accelerate the movement across Europe and deepen positive impact across the business community, with a key focus on creative nature-based legal and governance systems for nature resilience.

Claus Nielsen

Sinatur Hotel & Konference

Speaker // Give Nature a Voice

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Claus Nielsen, CEO at Sinatur Hotel & Konference has over 20 years of experience in the hotel and conference industry and is one of the driving forces behind Sinatur’s sustainable development. Under his leadership, Sinatur Hotel & Konference has achieved certifications and recognition for its work on the green transition. Claus’s career has focused strongly on combining high guest service with sustainable solutions that minimize the climate footprint and create value for both guests and nature.

Trine-Lise Buestad-Kjeldsmark

Yrolí Copenhagen

Speaker // Give Nature a Voice

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Trine-Lise Buestad- Kjeldsmark is Co-Founder of Yrolí Copenhagen, a Danish skincare brand built on the philosophy of skinimalism — fewer, more effective products that support the skin’s own natural processes. Since co-founding the company in 2018, she has led its business development and partnerships, helping build a brand that challenges the industry’s default of overconsumption through radical simplicity, minimal packaging, and a scientific approach rooted in skin health.

James Varkey

Icebug

Speaker  // Map Your Business Resilience in Three Dimensions

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James Varkey is CFO of Icebug, a Swedish footwear company and certified B Corp since 2022. He works across finance, impact and tech. For him, the triple bottom line was the shift from one dimension to three, and the triple-layered canvas is where that thinking becomes something you can actually map.

Carl-Johan Petri

Linköping University

Speaker // Map Your Business Resilience in Three Dimensions

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Carl-Johan Petri is Associate Professor (Docent) and Senior Lecturer at Linköping University, specializing in business models, sustainability, management control and organizational development. His research examines how companies design, implement and transform sustainable business models, bridging academic theory and business practice through teaching, research and executive education.

Mathias Cöster

Uppsala University

Speaker // Map Your Business Resilience in Three Dimensions

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Mathias Cöster, PhD is Associate Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University Campus Gotland. His research looks at how sustainability strategies become operationalised through business model design and management control systems. He is also active in the local business community, sitting on the board of Gotland Growth (Tillväxt Gotland).

Tania Ellis

TANIA ELLIS - The Social Business Company

Speaker // Responsible AI: From Good Intentions to Better Choices

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Tania Ellis, Founder of TANIA ELLIS – The Social Business Company, is a recognised speaker and advisor on responsible and sustainable business. She has spent more than 20 years helping companies navigate the societal trends reshaping business responsibility – from climate change and geopolitics to digitalisation and AI – and turn them into value for both society and the bottom line.

Lars Frello

CleverCoffee

Speaker // Build the Next B Coalition

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Lars Frello is founder and CEO at CleverCoffee, a B Corp certified specialty roastery and B2B coffee partner based in Odder, Denmark. CleverCoffee holds the highest B Corp score of any coffee company in the EU, and Lars is driven by proving that great coffee and genuine responsibility go hand in hand across the Danish hospitality and workplace market.

Lindy Brogaard

CleverCoffee

Speaker // Build the Next B Coalition

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Lindy Brogaard is Co-owner and Head of Coffee at CleverCoffee. For more than a decade he has explored specialty coffee, driven by how flavour, farming and nature come together in the cup. Time spent in coffee-producing countries shaped his belief that businesses and consumers in the Global North must help build a more prosperous coffee value chain — paying prices that let producers invest in their communities and land.

Louis Rind-Nygaard

Rudolph Care

Speaker // Build the Next B Coalition

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Louis is the Impact & Compliance Lead at Rudolph Care and has been the company’s B Keeper for the past five years. A sustainability generalist at heart, he is passionate about turning ambition into tangible impact and bringing long-term thinking into everyday business decisions. His work sits at the intersection of sustainability, compliance, and business, with a focus on creating meaningful change that lasts.

Carlota de Paula Coelho

B Lab

Speaker  // Corporate Advocacy in Tumultuous Times

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Carlota de Paula Coelho leads Policy at B Lab, she has a background in law (LL.M) and leads advocacy initiatives at global level in the sphere of corporate sustainability in collaboration with responsible businesses. She’s also a member of technical expert groups at EFRAG, GRI and ISO, helping align regulatory developments with sustainability practices across sectors and regions.

Signe Andreasen Lysgaard

Danish Institute for Human Rights

Speaker // Corporate Advocacy in Tumultuous Times

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Signe Andreasen Lysgaard is Chief Adviser on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, with more than 17 years advising companies, financial institutions, governments and civil society on implementing respect for human rights. Her work spans policy engagement, project-level collaboration and applied research. She sits on several external expert bodies, including ESMA’s Sustainability Consultative Working Group and PRI’s Advance Technical Advisory Group, and previously served on EFRAG’s Sustainability Reporting Technical Expert Group and the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance.

Andreas Lagerstedt

Nespresso

Speaker // Corporate Advocacy in Tumultuous Times

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Andreas Lagerstedt is Nordic Sustainability Manager at Nespresso, where he leads sustainability, circularity and ESG initiatives across the Nordic markets. His work focuses on advancing circular solutions, stakeholder collaboration, responsible sourcing, and regulatory engagement to help accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable and regenerative economy.

Lotta Wollentz

The Laghum Economy

Speaker // Let’s Put a Price On Nature

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Lotta Wollentz is Chief Orchestrator at The Laghum Economy, after 15 years as an intrapreneur building new businesses inside big ones, most recently the parcel service ICA Paket. She kept reaching the same conclusion: a market that leaves nature out of the price will never keep us within planetary boundaries. At Laghum, alongside founder Stefan Krook, she’s working on a market economy that puts a real price on nature.

Jess Fleischer

Son of a Tailor

Speaker // Let’s Put a Price on Nature

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Jess Fleischer is the Founder and CEO of Copenhagen-based menswear brand Son of a Tailor. An engineer by trade and advocate for Lean Manufacturing, he built a fully demand-driven, custom-fit supply chain with in-house production in Portugal to replace overproduction with a planet- and people-first model. He also serves as Deputy Chair of the UN Global Compact Network Denmark.

Karla Nedergaard Sørensen

Mini a Ture

Speaker // Repair Retreat

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Karla Nedergaard Sørensen is design assistant at MINI A TURE with a PBA in sustainable fashion and technology from EK – Erhvervsakademi København.

Katja Chaves Eskelund

Mini a Ture

Speaker // Repair Retreat

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Katja Eskelund is PR & Marketing Manager at MINI A TURE Copenhagen. At MINI A TURE, “better business” is not just a slogan. It is built into the product: repair kits and considered exchanges that keep garments and materials in use, a thriving secondhand market, and a 10-year guarantee that backs it all up. It is our hope that these initiatives will inspire customers to repair rather than replace.

Zane Kūkoja

66°North

Speaker // Repair Retreat

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Zane Kūkoja is the Head of Marketing at 66°North, bringing over a decade of international experience in brand strategy. With a career rooted in the fashion and lifestyle sectors, she has shaped global narratives and high-impact partnerships for industry powerhouses like Off-White and Acne Studios. At 66°North, Zane leads global communications with a deep personal connection, championing the brand’s heritage and its specialized factory located in her native Latvia.

Ólöf Inga Stefánsdóttir

66°North

Speaker // Repair Retreat

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Ólöf Inga Stefánsdóttir works with Quality, Compliance and Sustainability at 66°North and has extensive experience in integrating these areas across product development and supply chains. Her work focuses on using data, regulatory requirements and sustainability insights to improve product quality, strengthen transparency and simplify value chains and business processes. She is passionate about turning complexity into practical action and using what organizations learn today to build better products, processes and outcomes for tomorrow.

Anna Lind Pálsdóttir

66°North

Speaker // Repair Retreat

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Anna Lind Pálsdóttir is the Repair Service Supervisor at 66°North, where she ensures that every garment is repaired to the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship. Passionate about product longevity and sustainability, she plays a key role in extending the life of outdoor apparel through expert repair practices. Anna is dedicated to preserving the value of well-made products and promoting a more responsible approach to consumption through repair and care.