Krister Svensson

Krister Svensson is Swedish and holds a Masters in Macroeconomics and Computer Science from the University of Lund.

He started his career in the computer industry in Sweden before moving to Brussels as CIO for Honeywell’s EMEA division. He founded an executive search firm in Belgium which had become the country’s largest independent search consultancy when he sold it to Spencer Stuart in 1994.

At Spencer Stuart, Mr. Svensson gained extensive CEO and board recruitment experience. He managed the firm’s European Technology Practice and worked on cross-border and global assignments. Mr. Svensson left the search business in 1999 to develop a talent-centric career service for senior business leaders. CMi was born out of this research.

Russell Chambers

Russell Chambers is a Senior Advisor of Credit Suisse in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Chambers was the Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse in the United Kingdom and Ireland from June 2007 until June 2008. He joined Credit Suisse from UBS where he was a Managing Director in UK Investment Banking.

Mr. Chambers is a member of Credit Suisse’s European Charity Committee and a Trustee of the Prince’s Charities Foundation, a board which oversees 18 separate charities for the Prince of Wales, including The Price’s Trust.

Ángel Durández

Ángel Durández, is Chairman of Informacion y Control de Publicaciones, S.A. in Madrid. 

Prior to this he spent many years with the Arthur Andersen Group and, before retiring in 2000, was Head of their European Media & Entertainment Industry Group.

Ángel is a member of Foundation German Sanchez Ruiperez and Foundation Independiente and Vice-President of Fundation Euroamerica, a non-executive director on the Boards of Repsol YPF and the Spanish TV Group Tele 5 and a member of several audiovisual organisations in Spain.

Norman Walker

Norman Walker is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital LLP.

He is a visiting Professor at SDA Bocconi and is the co-author of the widely acclaimed book Leadership Passages. From 1998 to 2003 he was a member of the Novartis Executive Committee responsible for Human Resources.

Previously he held senior Human Resources positions at Kraft Foods in Europe and the US, at Grand Met and Ford Motor Company.

Jaap Winter

Jaap Winter is Dutch and a partner at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the leading law firm in the Netherlands.

He is professor of international company law at the university of Amsterdam and visiting professor at Columbia Law School in New York. Mr. Winter advises corporate clients and institutional investors on corporate governance developments in the Netherlands and in Europe.

He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Forum, set up by the European Commission and until recently was a member of the Supervisory Board of the AFM, the Dutch securities regulator.