Håkan Ekström
Håkan
Ekström
Håkan Ekström is a partner in the Stockholm office. His search work covers a broad set of industries, including technology, professional services, transportation, logistics, consumer goods, retail and manufacturing. His focus is to recruit executives to high level positions including CEO's and Non-Executive Directors to Boards. Prior to joining Ray & Berndtson in 1996, Håkan spent nine years as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company becoming a senior engagement manager. In this role he focused on corporate strategy, corporate finance, M&A, and marketing. He also spent 1995, together with the McKinsey Global Institute, looking at Sweden's economic performance and barriers to growth. Håkan assisted clients across Europe, working almost three years at McKinsey's Eurocenter in Brussels. Håkan holds a MSc from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Industries & Functions
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Board & CEO
As world-class organizations grapple with the global challenges of the 21st century, it is their leaders that define success.
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Business & Professional Services
The continuing globalization of this high-end, high-value sector demands exceptional leaders, who know how to differentiate services, embrace innovation and deliver value.
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Consumer Products & Services
Technological advances, globalization and the Internet are reshaping the rules in today's consumer & retail services market, demanding exceptional talent at the top.
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Financial Services
Financial services firms require strong leaders, global visionaries and superbly qualified professionals to move them forward in the 21st Century.
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Healthcare
The growing focus on the healthcare sector from a population with spiralling expectations and often an ageing profile, requires leaders who can manage opportunity and challenge in equal measure.
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Industrial
Globalization, mergers and acquisitions, vertical integrations and partnerships, all demand more of the people at the top.
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Media & Entertainment
A magnet for talented young people, the essential element in success in the media & entertainment business is securing senior executives who have the vision, energy and acumen to make the right decisions.
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Technology
In technology, with apparently boundless application and insatiable markets, it is the human factor - leadership - that differentiates the stellar successes from the rest.
Search Professionals
- Håkan Ekström
- Managing Partner
- Monica Ekvall
- Anders Gudmarsson
- Jan Lindberg
- Michael Östervall
- Bengt Starke
Ray & Berndtson
Stockholm office