Governance

Board of Directors

Mark H. Shay, CFA

Mark H. Shay, CFA

Chairman of the Board since 2018

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Year of birth: 1972
Education: MBA, M.I.T. Sloan School of Management (USA); BS., MSc, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University (USA); Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Other assignments: Board Member, Modelon AB (publ) and Accendo Capital Managers SARL; CEO, MHS Capital.
Previously: Senior Equity Analyst, Coghill Capital Management; Manager, Accenture.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 275,000 shares (own/related), 30,073,534 shares (Accendo Capital).
Independent in relation to the company and company management, dependent in relation to major shareholders.

Christian Sahlén

Christian Sahlén

Board Member since 2016

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Year of birth: 1965
Education: Executive Management Program, Autoliv; B.Sc. Telecommunications, NOKIA Engineering School (Sweden/Finland).
Other assignments: Chairman & CEO, ACTIA Nordic AB and ACTIA EMS Sweden AB; Board Member, STILRIDE AB, Dataton AB and FKG (Fordonskomponentgruppen).
Previously: VP, ACTIA Nordic AB; Business Director, Autoliv Electronics; VP Sales & Marketing, NIRA Dynamics AB; Area Manager SE Asia, Kreatel Communications AB.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 23,571 shares (own/related).
Independent in relation to the company, the company management, and major shareholders.

Sukhwan Yun

Sukhwan Yun

Board Member since 2019

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Year of birth: 1983
Education: PhD, BSc, Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (USA).
Other assignments: Head of Operation CRADLE Berlin / Senior Manager of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Team, Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea; Board Memeber, Pajarito Powder LLC, USA.
Previously: Board Member, Hyliym Industries, Mesh Korea, UBATT, KST Mobility, South Korea; Senior Research Engineer, Hyundai Fuel Cell Research Lab.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 0 shares (own/related). 5,400,000 shares (Hyundai Motor Company).
Independent in relation to the company and company management, dependent in relation to major shareholders.

Per Wassén

Per Wassén

Board Member since 2020

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Year of birth: 1961
Education: MSc Engineering Physics, Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden); BSc Business Administration and Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University.
Other assignments: Chairman, ES Energy Save Holding AB; Board Member, GU Venture AB and Hexatronics Group AB; Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Previously: Executive Chairman & CEO, PowerCell Sweden AB; Investment Director, Volvo Group Venture Capital; Vice President Corporate Strategy and Business Development, AB Volvo.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 30,000 shares (own/related).
Independent in relation to the company, the company management, and major shareholders.

Auditor

The auditor is elected by the AGM and reviews the company’s accounts and management on behalf of the AGM. Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB (PwC) was appointed as the company’s audit firm at the most recent AGM. The lead auditor is Johan Palmgren, authorized public accountant employed at PwC.

Group Management Team

Jonas Nilsson, CEO

Jonas Nilsson, CEO

Current position since 2023, Employed since 2023

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Year of birth: 1972
Education: MSc, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Linköping University.
Other assignments: Chairman, Börslycke Gård AB; Board Member, Entiros AB.
Experiences: Investment Manager, LiU Invest; Chairman, n-ink AB, and Polar Light Technologies AB; Board Member, HPViCo AB; CEO and later Chairman, SweGaN AB; CEO, SP Devices AB; R&D Director, Kreatel Communications AB.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 300,000 shares (own/related).

Bengt Vernerson, CFO (Interim)

Bengt Vernerson, CFO (Interim)

Current position since 2023

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Year of birth: 1961
Education: MSc, Business Administration, Lund University.
Experiences: Many years of experience in governance of international companies and groups with in-house production, such as Interim CFO FläktGroup Sweden AB, Interim CFO Prisjakt Group, Interim CFO Abstracta AB & Lammhults Möbel AB, VP Group Business Control Höganäs Group, CFO Formica Northern Europe, CFO Acrimo Group.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 0 shares (own/related).

Carina Höglund, COO

Carina Höglund, COO

Current position since 2023, Employed since 2019

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Year of birth: 1981
Education: PhD, Thin film physics, MSc, Engineering Physics, Linköping University.
Previously: Managing coating development and setting up a coating production facility for the European Spallation Source ERIC. Senior Technology Expert at Impact Coatings since 2019 with focus on customer requirements and quality in coating production.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 3,067 shares (own/related).

Kristian Hillgren, CTO

Kristian Hillgren, CTO

Current position since 2023, Employed since 2010

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Year of birth: 1984
Education: PhD, Materials Chemistry, Uppsala University.
Experiences: Kristian was first employed as a technical specialist at Impact Coatings in 2010. Since the end of 2020, he has been based in Seoul, South Korea, as Regional President Korea responsible for the joint development work in hydrogen solutions with Hyundai.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 2,932 shares (own/related).

Yaowen Wang, Regional President China

Yaowen Wang, Regional President China

Current position since 2019, employed since 2019

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Year of birth: 1989
Education:
MSc, Environmental Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium.
Experiences: Many years of experience in the hydrogen industry in various roles in technology development, business development and sales.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 12,803 shares (own/related).

Robert Mamazza, Regional President North America

Robert Mamazza, Regional President North America

Current position since 2021, Employed since 2021

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Year of birth: 1970
Education:
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, USA.
Experiences: Broad background in thin film capital equipment within renewable energy, semiconductors, MEMES, LED’s, and a variety of adjacent technologies. CEO, MtronPTI, USA; CTO, Evatec Advanced Technologies AG, Switzerland; CTO, Head of Research and Development, and Head of Engineering, Oerlikon Advanced Technologies, Switzerland.
Shareholding in Impact Coatings: 0 shares (own/related).

Articles of Association

The Articles of Association is the document that sets out the central rules for Impact Coatings AB as a limited liability company and provides details on how the company is to be managed. The Articles of Association are approved at a General Meeting of Shareholders.

Articles of Association

Established at the Extraordinary General Meeting on February 16, 2023.

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Preferential Rights Issue 2023

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Preferential Rights Issue and New Share Issue 2017

Prospectus (in Swedish)