Spotlight Group in short – Spotlight Group

Spotlight Group in short

Spotlight Group was established in 1997 and is a group consisting of independent businesses with a common purpose – to simplify growth for companies. Spotlight Group’s underlying businesses are Spotlight Stock Market, Markets & Corporate Law, Sedermera Corporate Finance, Nordic Issuing, FinReg Solutions, Kalqyl and Placing Corporate Finance.

Spotlight Stock Market is a trading platform. Revenues come mainly from monthly fees from listed companies and trading commissions. The income from the legal adviser MCL comes mainly from legal advice linked to the stock exchange and company law. Sedermera Corporate Finance is a financial adviser whose income mainly comes from services related to capital raising, transaction advice, and current services within Corporate Finance. Nordic Issuing is an issuing agent whose income mainly comes from the handling of technical work in transactions.

FinReg Solutions is a Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) company whose revenue primarily comes from the sale of online-based solutions for digital stock and logbooks. Kalqyl is an analysis company whose main income comes from commissioned analyzes in connection with capitalizations or just to increase awareness of a company among private investors.

Placing Corporate Finance is a financial advisor whose income is primarily generated from services linked to capital raising and transaction advice.

Spotlight Group intends to continue to be a pioneer in developing tools for listed growth companies and thereby create conditions for increased employment, innovation, and competitiveness. The Group thus fulfills an important societal function.

About

Peter Gönczi

CEO and Board member

Born 1975
Elected to the Board in 2014

Peter Gönczi has been a board member since July 2014 and since June 2014 the CEO of Spotlight Group. Gönczi has a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics as well as more than 20 years of solid experience in the stock market for growth companies and the companies’ capital raising. Gönczi has worked centrally located in the through the development and growth of the Swedish market for listing growth companies – from telephone trading, news distribution via fax, limited rules and lack of investor protection, to today’s reality. Between 2000 and 2006, Peter Gönczi worked at NGM’s market surveillance and with NGM’s operations, early as head of information surveillance and then as head of NGM’s market surveillance and stock exchange administration. In 2006, Gönczi was appointed Deputy CEO of Spotlight Stock Market (then AktieTorget), a role that in 2011 led to Gönczi being appointed CEO. In his role at Spotlight Stock Market, Peter Gönczi has been a leader in business development, developed the entire organization and its staff, and built up routines, systems and collaborations. Since the group was formed in 2010, Gönczi has also been a leader in the group’s entirety and development. Peter Gönczi was a driving force in the Group’s rebuilding during the years 2012 to 2016 when the ownership was changed (and the current major owners took over), at the same time as Sedermera was restructured, changed and moved to Malmö. Since then, Gönczi, as CEO, has led the work with the entire Group’s development and positioning to the point where the Group stands today.

Holdings in Spotlight Group: Peter Gönczi owns, privately or through companies or related parties, 238,247 shares corresponding to 4.53% of the votes and capital, and 5,500 call options.

Other current board assignments:

Ependy AB, Chairman of the board
Markets & Corporate Law Nordic AB, board member
Sameve Invest AB, board member
Finreg Solutions AB, board member
Nordic Issuing AB, board member
Placing Corporate Finance Sverige AB, Chairman of the board
Shark Communication AB, board member
Sedermera Corporate Finance AB, Chairman of the board
Kalqyl Analys Norden AB, board member
Spotlight Stock Market, Chairman of the board

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