Catharina Mannerfelt

Sweden
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Catharina Mannerfelt

Partner and Head of Board Services

Catharina Mannerfelt is Partner and Head of Board Services at Alumni Global, advising boards and owners in the Nordics on board composition and governance. She leads client engagements and the firm's thought leadership within board services, and works as a senior consultant in executive search across the consumer, media and retail sectors.

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Beyond this, she has an industry focus on the consumer-oriented sectors, e.g. consumer products/services, media, and retail. Catharina’s assignments include recruitment to boards and management teams as well as client engagement with a broader leadership development focus. Several of her client relationships and assignments stretch beyond the Nordics into Europe and North America.

Catharina started at Alumni Global in 1997 and was an important contributor to Alumni Global’s growth for twelve years, since alongside her work with clients, she also performed a number of in-house roles including team leader and then COO. She also worked in London at Harvey Nash Executive Search UK. In 2009 she left Alumni Global to work as the Talent Strategy Director of the Universum Group based in Stockholm and Philadelphia. At the beginning of 2011, however, she returned to Alumni Global and is based in Stockholm. 

Catharina has a particularly extensive track-record delivering searches for executives within the following functions: CEO & Board, Commercial, Sales & Marketing and Finance & Legal.

Catharina holds a Master of Science in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

Areas of expertise 

Service Line 

  • Executive Search

  • Board Services

  • Leadership Assessment and Development

Industry Expertise 

  • Consumer and Retail

  • Media and Entertainment

  • Financial Services

  • Technology and IT

  • Life Sciences

  • Telecommunications

  • Healthcare

Functional Expertise 

  • Board

  • CEO

  • CFO

  • Commercial and Sales

  • Marketing and Communications

  • Finance

  • Legal, Risk and Compliance

Search markets

Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom, Europe, USA and North America, South America.

Contact

Office location: Stockholm, Sweden
Tel:+46 73 055 17 19
E-mail:catharina.mannerfelt@alumniglobal.com
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