Chairman of IKEA and CEO of Tele2, Lars Johan Jarnheimer is a European business leader. An incredibly inspiring and influential business figure, Lars is also an expert in delivering dynamic motivational speeches. Able to cover topics from finance and futurism to maintaining drive, determination and sustaining a highly effective leadership style, Johan Jarnheimer has been known to make some of the most impressive changes in businesses of all sizes.
At the beginning of what would later become a prolific career in corporate leadership, Lars joined the Kinnevik Group in 1991 where he became the CEO of their new music TV channel ZTV. He went onto become the Vice President of one of Kinnevik’s largest holdings, Tele2, where he lead the development of their mobile telephony, Comviq and featured in a few of the television advertising campaigns as the face of the brand.
As the managing director of Tele2 AB, he became responsible for activity in over nine countries with 14 million customers. He eventually left to join SAAB Automobile where he overlooked Scandinavian, Baltin and Russian markets. With a whole host of high-profile business management and leadership experience under his belt, there is no doubt that Lars can create a huge impact on any audience in which he addresses.
Later on his career, Lars rejoined the Kinnevik Group as the Executive Vice President. He became heavily involved in the development of the customer care company Transcom and also worked within the loyalty management company, Collect AB. From 1999 to 2008, Lars was the CEO and President of Tele2 AB and has gone onto hold an abundance of senior roles including becoming the director of INGKA Holding BV (IKEA’s parent company); Apoteket AB and Arvid Nordquist Handelsaktiebolag. He is also a board member for SAS AB, Egmont International Holding A/S, Elite Hotels, Seamless and the chairman of BRIS, the Swedish children’s rights organisation.
A motivational speaker with endless amounts of experience in finance, technology and business management, Lars can target his advice to aspiring business people, entrepreneurs and CEOs to businesses of all sizes.
