Mats Jansson is a Swedish businessperson

Businessperson

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. He was Chief Executive Officer

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 of SAS Group

SAS Group

Scandinavian Airlines System Aktiebolag , trading as SAS Group and SAS AB, is a holding company based in Solna, Sweden. It is the parent company of the airlines Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe, and the aviation services companies SAS Business Opportunities, SAS Cargo Group, SAS Ground...

 from 2007 to 2010.

Biography

Jansson was educated in economics

Economics

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 and sociology

Sociology

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 at the University College of Örebro, before he started a career in ICA, where he held a range of senior positions from 1973 to 1994. He then worked as CEO of Catena

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 until 1999 when he was hired as CEO of Fazer Group. In 2000 he became CEO of Axfood

Axfood

Axfood AB is a Swedish company. Formed in May 2000 through a merger between the Swedish grocery store chains Hemköp, D&D Dagligvaror, Spar Sverige, Spar Inn Snabbgross, it is one of the largest food retailers in Scandinavia listed on the stock market....

 and in 2005 Chairman of the company while changing to CEO of Axel Johnson. He was hired as CEO of SAS Group in 2007. Jansson is married and has four daughters, and lives in Stockholm

Stockholm

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