SPEAKER: OLA ALVARSSON

Entrepreneur, author, kick boxing world champion

Ola Ahlvarsson is a passioned serial-entrepreneur with unique experience in building fast moving companies in Sweden and internationally.

Ola´s entrepreneurial adventures has given him valuable insight in leadership, strategy, venture capital, customer interaction, IT and wireless but more than anything dedication to finding the essence of building successful companies.

His book, Vision Impossible, starts by analyzing the last centuries unparalleled entrepreneurial boom and the brave, stubborn and sometimes insane entrepreneurs who made it possible. The arch-entrepreneurs are portrayed with an intelligent combination of deep historical knowledge, humour and strategic insights used to give concrete advice on the demands the fortune 500 companies of tomorrow must live up to.

Ola Ahlvarsson has been in the epicenter of the entrepreneurial boom that has grown in Scandinavia and in Europe which has led to nominations such as "Top Ten Leading European Internet Entrepreneurs 1999" by the Wall Street Journal. Similar honours have been rendered by Business Week (jan 2000) and Financial Times (may 2000). Ola has twice been invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he has been elected "Global Leader for Tomorrow" together with thought leading businessmen, political-, religious- and artistic leaders.

Ola has been part of building traditional business as well as companies in the evolving digital economy. Among them Boxman the first pan-european e-business and Result, an international management consulting and investment company where Ola is the CEO today. Ola has been trough phenomenal international success as well as tough failures where he had to fight for survival during the deep recessions and can share learning from the old as well as the new economy.

During his career his has had the chance to meet and get to know many world leading business profiles enabling him to tell behind the scene insights as well as original. Consistant in Ahlvarsson's entrepreneurship is a brave and enthusiastic leadership combined with an ability to meet new challenges with pragmatic solutions.

As a speaker he is knowledgable, entertaining and skilled in the art of really reaching the audience. Qualities that have lead to numerous international speaking engagements in all corners of the world.

Ola Ahlvarsson first met the public's eye as an athlete where he became a world champinon of Karate and Kick Boxing during the 1990´s.

The energy and the determination from the sports world has since turned towards the world of business and coupled with a visionary leadership lead to many sectors in many countries.