Lorenzo Grabau is an

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businessman and he was recently

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of Swedish investment firm Investment AB Kinnevik until December 7, 2016. Prior to this, Grabau had an extensive career in investment banking, with 17 years spent at

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Career

After graduating from Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, in

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, Grabau joined the investment bank

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in 1990 as an analyst. He remained here for five years working in the mergers and acquisition department in

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and

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. In 1994, he joined the investment banking division of

, where he remained until 2011. During his time here, he held various leadership positions, eventually rising to managing director in 1999, responsible for driving growth within the consumer/retail and media/online industry practices, as well as the firm’s financial sponsors group. Grabau’s Kinnevik career started in 2011 after he was appointed as the non-executive director of

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. At this time, he was also appointed as a non-executive director of SoftKinetic, a Belgian IT software provider. In May 2013, he was appointed as a non-executive director at

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, while the following month, he was offered the role of co-chairman of

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, which he accepted. In May 2014, he assumed his current role as CEO of Investment AB Kinnevik, as well as a directorship at

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. Through Kinnevik, he is a board member of various Kinnevik-owned companies, including telecoms giants Millicom and Tele2, media firm Modern Times Group, e-commerce company

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, as well as advisory firm SecureValue and online music retailer CDON. He is also the deputy chairman of the board of Kinnevik’s online fashion firm, Zalando. In addition to these roles, Grabau is also the co-chairman of CTC Media, a Russian media company.

Personal

Grabau was born and raised in

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, attending a French school in his early years. He had some initial success as a golfer, reaching the Italian national team at the age of 21, before eventually shelving his sporting ambitions to study economics at the La Sapienza University in Rome. He is now married to wife Sabrina Bodmer and they have two children. Both Lorenzo and his wife are art collectors and sit on the council of the

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