Karin Forseke, CBE (born 1955, in Sweden) is a Swedish businesswoman and was

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of the Swedish

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D. Carnegie & Co between 2003 and 2006. She became CEO in March 2003, when Lars Bertmar resigned his position as CEO to become

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of the company. She resigned in March 2006, being replaced by

Stig Vilhelmson Stig Vilhelmson (born 1956) was a Swedish businessman who was the former chief executive officer of investment bank Carnegie. Vilhemson started at Carnegie 1991 and replaced Karin Forseke as CEO at the time of the Annual General Meeting in 2006. ...

. Karin Forseke was one of the very few female CEOs in companies listed on the

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. Carnegie was at that time a Nordic investment bank with offices in 8 countries listed on the

. Prior to being appointed Chief Executive she was the Head of International Sales and Sales Trading at Carnegie from 1998. In 1996–1998, Forseke was Chief Operating Officer of the

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, LIFFE. Other prior positions also include Private Advisor to the Minister of Financial Market and Local Government, Sweden, Westpac Banking Corporation's Financial Markets Group, London and Director of Business Development, The OMLX exchange, London. She holds a number of private and public directorships. She is a non-executive director of the

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(FSA) Board, Eniro AB and the

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. In January 2012 she was appointed Non Executive Chairman of Alliance Trust. a In 2005, Forseke was ranked among the 100 most influential people in European capital markets according to Financial News. Forseke was awarded the Félix Neubergh Lecture 2007, Gothenburg University; ''Leadership; challenges and opportunities in the business of privatization''.Gothenburg University School of Business, Economics and Law: The Félix Neubergh Lecture 2007 with Karin Forseke
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