CFO Profile: Nordic Capital’s Klas Tikkanen
Klas Tikkanen joined NC Advisory, advisor to the Nordic Capital funds, in 2011 as CFO, bringing with him a wealth of experience from CFO roles at industrial companies including Relacom and Dometic.
The Drawdown (TDD): Given your professional history, what is your experience of being a private equity CFO?
Klas Tikkanen (KT): My background is that of an industrial CFO, for producing industrial companies – the ones that private equity funds would normally own – and that has shaped my view of what CFOing and COOing in the funds world should look like.
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