Partner group
A short presentation of the partners in Rite Ventures follows below.
Tommy Jacobson, Chairman of the Board, Partner
Tommy Jacobson was one of the founders of the investment company, Quesada Kapitalförvaltning AB, and is one of the largest owners of the company. Quesada’s asset management was sold to EFG Investment Bank in 2006. Before Tommy started up Quesada AB, he was the managing director of and one of the founders of Trevise Bank AB, an asset management company that was sold to Unibank in 1997. Tommy is the Chairman of the Board of Varenne Investment and Djurgården Fotboll, and Managing Director in Quesada Kapitalförvaltning AB. Tommy has a degree in Economics from Linköping University.
Christoffer Häggblom, Member of the Board, Partner
Christoffer Häggblom is the co-founder of Rite Ventures. He holds a MSc in Finance from the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki. Christoffer has previously founded various internet related businesses as well as the consultancy company B&H Ventures Ltd. He received the Anders Wall Scholarship for entrepreneurship in 2005. He has also worked at United Nations in New York in their ICT Task Force initiative and within Remium Investment Bank in Stockholm. Christoffer is, among others, the Chairman of the Board of Verkkokauppa.com, Nebula Oy and Eirikuva Digital Images Oyj, as well as a member of the board of DIBS AB.
Peter Lindell, Member of the Board, Partner
Peter Lindell holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden. He began his career as a software developer, and founded the PC reseller Turn-Key Data in 1981. Two years later Peter formed Nordic Datadistribution, a leading distributor of PC products in Sweden. In 1991, the company was sold to the listed British company, P&P Plc. Peter has been a Senior Partner at ITP Invest since 1995 and is a member of several boards including Unibet, Allt för föräldrar, Nebula Oy and Verkkokauppa.com. Peter has been an early investor in companies such as Owell (IPO 1994, acquired by WM Data 1995), Voru Cheese, Estonia (IPO 1998), Kentor (acquired by Telecomputing 2007), Unibet (IPO 2004), Neonet (IPO 2001, merger Orc Software 2010) among others.