Christer Zetterberg is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 businessman who is the current Chairman

Board of directors

A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...

 of investment bank Carnegie

Carnegie Investment Bank

Carnegie Investment Bank AB is a Swedish financial services group with activities in securities brokerage, investment banking and private banking....

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Christer Zetterberg graduated with a degree in business. After starting his career in the Swedish paper industry, he became CEO of the state-owned PK-Banken (now a part of Nordea

Nordea

Nordea Bank AB is a Stockholm-based financial services group operating in Northern Europe. The bank is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian banks of Nordbanken, Merita Bank, Unibank and Kreditkassen that took place between 1997 and 2000...

) in 1988. As such he took part in buying Carnegie from Erik Penser

Erik Penser

Nils Wilhelm Erik Penser is a Swedish financier and businessman.After having studied law at Lund University, Erik Penser commenced a career as a stock broker at Bankirfirman Langenskiöld, which later became Carnegie Investment Bank...

. In 1990 he moved to one of the most prestigious jobs in Swedish industry at that time - CEO of Volvo

Volvo

AB Volvo is a Swedish builder of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, aerospace components and financial services...

. He stayed in that position for two years, serving under Chairman Pehr G. Gyllenhammar

Pehr G. Gyllenhammar

Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar is a Swedish businessman. He is mainly known for his 24 years as CEO and chairman of Volvo, between 1970 and 1994. In the early 1980s he took the initiative for the European Round Table of Industrialists .-Career:Gyllenhammar graduated from Lund University with a degree in...

. Since leaving Volvo in 1992, Zetterberg has served on a number of different boards.

Christer Zetterberg was chairman at Carnegie between 2001 and 2002, before stepping down to vice chairman behind former CEO Lars Bertmar

Lars Bertmar

Lars Bertmar is a Swedish businessman who was CEO and Chairman of investment bank Carnegie. He holds a PhD and is a lecturer at Stockholm School of Economics.He graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics, in 1977....

. When Bertmar resigned in 2006, Zetterberg became chairman again. He also sits on the board of Fredrik Lundberg's

Fredrik Lundberg

Fredrik Lundberg is a Swedish businessman.His father was Lars Erik Lundberg founder of L E Lundbergforetagen AB. Fredrik Lundberg is president and CEO of L E Lundbergföretagen AB, of which he inherited a controlling stake from his father...

 investment company

Investment company

An investment company is a company whose main business is holding securities of other companies purely for investment purposes. The investment company invests money on behalf of its shareholders who in turn share in the profits and losses....

 and a number of other Swedish companies. Zetterberg is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien , founded in 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...

since 1988.