Josefin Bladh
Josefin is our Fund Controller based in Stockholm. She is responsible for tracking our portfolio performance and running our Fund reporting process.
Growing up outside Stockholm, I spent most of my free time playing football with friends. During summers, my family and I spent a lot of time in the Swedish archipelago (both west coast and east coast) or on the golf course and winters on cross-country skis in the north of Sweden. After school, I traveled across South America with a friend and later joined Sandvik, a four-month internship that aims to motivate young people to study engineering. I got to know many different people with technical backgrounds, all of whom were super impressive in their own way and found something they really embraced doing. I ended up studying Industrial Engineering and Management at Linköping University, focusing on Data Science, followed by a finance master's degree.
I found a special interest in math, the logic of numbers, and underlying financial figures. Following my master's thesis at AP4, the Fourth National Swedish Pension Fund, I joined PwC. At PwC I worked with valuations and financial modeling in corporate finance and learned a lot. I love breaking problems down into numbers, making sense of what initially looks like a mess, and creating a story out of the data that people can follow and understand.
Josefin enjoying lunch (and the sunshine!) with Peter Stilwell and the operations team based in Stockholm
During my two years with PwC, I became increasingly intrigued by the client side. I wanted to be closer to the companies I was working for, see the product of what you're doing for a longer time, and follow the development from the inside. When Creandum reached out, I wasn’t actively looking for a new challenge, but every conversation felt natural and familiar, and I realized this was the perfect next step.
Today I spend my free time with friends and family. I still enjoy summer in the archipelago, trying to get good scores on the golf course, and have recently started to play football again with friends on Sundays. During winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and have signed up for a second attempt at the Swedish 90 km race “Vasaloppet”.
Josefin with some of her Stockholm colleagues