Management Team

Johan Hedberg

Johan Hedberg

Chief Executive Officer (interim)

Born: 1973

Employee since: 2008

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 15,772,714

Warrants in Sinch: 0

Education: MSc in Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Experience: Sinch: Sinch co-founder 2008, CEO 2010 – 2018, Corp Dev. 2018 – 2022. US-based 2016-2019. Prior to Sinch: Management consultant Paris & Geneva at Cambridge Technology Partners, Global product owner Messaging at Ericsson.

Brett Scorza

Brett Scorza

President, Voice

Born: 1968

Employee since: 2021

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): -

Warrants in Sinch: 458,888 stock options corresponding to 500,000 shares*

Education: Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1990

Experience: Over 30 years of executive experience in software, technology and telecommunications. He has been with Sinch Voice (previously Inteliquent) since 2004 where he has held several roles with the responsibility for sales, product and development, most recently the role as Chief Information Officer 2010-2021. Prior to Sinch Voice, he held positions at Focal Communications, Inc., MFS Communications and Andersen Consulting.

Christina Raaschou

Christina Raaschou

Chief Human Resource Officer

Born: 1977

Employee since: January 2022

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 337

Warrants in Sinch: 35,349 warrants corresponding to 56,490 shares*

Education: MSc Business Administration, University of Karlstad 2000

Experience: Head of HR H&M Group Business Tech, senior HR roles within Ericsson & Unilever

Cristina David

Cristina David

Chief Information Officer

Born: 1976

Employee since: 2022

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 0

Warrants in Sinch: 80,000 stock options corresponding to 80,000 shares

Education: Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, University of Bucharest; Master’s Degree in Public Relations and Communications

Experience: Head of Enterprise Systems at Ericsson, senior operations, customer success and delivery roles at Ericsson, Oracle and Timken.

Jonathan Bean

Jonathan Bean

Chief Marketing Officer

Born: 1976

Employee since: April 2019

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 131,000

Warrants in Sinch: 16,670 stock options corresponding to 166,700 shares*

Education: MBA, Henley Business School, Degree in Communications, University of Leeds

Experience: Mynewsdesk since 2009, head of marketing since 2015. Prior to Mynewsdesk, sales representative for SaaS solutions at Cision.

Josh Odom

Josh Odom

President, CPaaS

Born: 1985

Employee since: 2021

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 2,707,856

Warrants in Sinch: 750,000 stock options corresponding to 750,000 shares

Education: Bachelor of Business Administration, Information Systems, University of Texas San Antonio

Experience: Chief Technology Officer of Mailgun, Senior Product and Engineering leader at Rackspace

Julie Rassat

Julie Rassat

Chief Integration & Transformation Officer

Born: 1979

Employee since: 2020

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 0

Warrants in Sinch: 135,410 stock options corresponding to 229,100 shares*

Education: BA in International Relations, University of Leeds, MSc in Finance, ESCP-EAP, MBA, London Business School.

Experience: Extensive transactions experience transactions, including from Thomson Reuters where she was Senior Director, Acquisition Integration EMEA & APAC. Prior to this, roles in strategy and business planning and work as financial analyst at BDPME.

Nicklas Molin

Nicklas Molin

Executive Vice President International

Born: 1978

Employee since: 2016

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 163,370

Warrants in Sinch: 110,867 warrants corresponding to 208,670 shares

Education: Master Computer Science, Bachelor Business & Administration Stockholm University.

Experience: Regional Vice President EMEA Sinch, VP Sales & Marketing (legacy Sinch), VP Sales & Marketing PayEx, Sales Director Wallit.

Petter Bengtsson

Petter Bengtsson

Executive Vice President North America

Born: 1977

Employee since: 2010

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 453,340

Warrants in Sinch: 160,979 stock options corresponding to 259,790 shares

Education: Master of Science in Communication Linköping University, Bachelor’s degree in economics from Kalmar University

Experience: Head of Sales EMEA and North America Sinch, Sales Manager at Ericsson.

Roshan Saldanha

Roshan Saldanha

Chief Financial Officer

Born: 1977

Employee since: 2019

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 4,226

Warrants in Sinch: 183,333 warrants corresponding to 633,342 shares*

Education: M.Com, University of Mumbai and Chartered Accountant in India

Experience: Tele2 since 2007 including CFO Tele2 Sweden for three years. Previously, several international financial assignments for Arthur Andersen, Citibank and the Kinnevik Group

Sean O’Neal

Sean O’Neal

President, SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business)

Born: 1972

Employee since: 2021

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): -

Warrants in Sinch: 650,000 stock options corresponding to 650,000 shares*

Education: Bachelor of Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Experience: Nearly 30 years of executive experience in technology and of cloud-based service offerings from Nielsen, Onclusive, Daily Mail and Sony

Thomas Heath

Thomas Heath

Chief Strategy Officer

Born: 1981

Employee since: 2018

Shareholding in Sinch (total, private & via companies): 200,000

Warrants in Sinch: 183,334 warrants corresponding to 483,340 shares*

Education: B.A in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford, MSc in Finance, Stockholm School of Economics

Experience: Equity analyst at Danske Bank, Handelsbanken Capital Markets, and Öhman Fondkommission

 

 

*The number of warrants/stock options and shares can differ since a warrant/stock option relating to LTI programs that were issued before the 1:10 share split in June 2021 gives the right to 10 shares. In later programs, one warrant/stock option gives the right to one share.

Please note that the number of shares and warrants reported here are as per 31 December, 2022 except for Cristina David, Peter Bengtsson and Nicklas Molin where it is per 10 March, 2023.