Spotlight Group

Group management

Peter Gönczi

CEO

Markus Neuding

Executive Vice President since 2020

Mikael Renck

CFO since 2014

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

 

 

Dependence on the Company and management, but independent in relation to the Company’s major shareholders.

Markus Neuding

Executive Vice President since 2020

Born 1990, LL. M.

Work experience: Neuding was hired as Chief Operating Officer for Spotlight Group Group in 2016 and has since then held several positions within the Group, for example installation-forced board member in the subsidiary ATS Finans AB. In the years 2018–2020, Neuding also held the position of CEO of MCL. Additionally, Neuding has experience from a law firm with a focus on securities, stock market and company law. In 2018, Markus Neuding was named one of Sweden’s 101 super talents by Veckans Affärer.

Other assignments:

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

Shareholding in the company (including related parties): 76,493 shares, corresponding to about 1.45 percent of votes and capital, and 5,500 call options, privately.

Mikael Renck

CFO since 2014

Born 1980, Master of Business Administration and Master of Economics.

Work experience: Renck has been within the Group since 2009, mainly in his current role as CFO but also in other positions. For several years, Renck has also been active as a consultant through his own companies and has also founded a number of companies, primarily in the finance and IT industry.

Other assignments

  • DRH Customs AB, deputy director
  • FinReg Solutions AB, board member and CEO
  • IAT Innovation Sweden AB, board member and CEO
  • Kalqyl Analys Norden AB, board member
  • Leja Holding AB, deputy director
  • MiRé Holding AB, board member and CEO
  • MJAA Holding AB, board member
  • Gainbridge Capital AB, board member
  • Sedermera Corporate Finance AB, board member
  • Markets & Corporate Law Nordic AB, board member
  • Shark Communication AB, board member
  • Nordic Issuing AB, board member
  • Placing Corporate Finance Sverige AB, board member
  • SeaHouse Capital ApS, board member
  • Gigstep AB, board member
  • SME GROWTH IT PARTNER S.R.L, board member
  • Spotlight Stock Market AB, board member

Shareholding in the company (including related parties): 147,808 shares, corresponding to 2.80 percent of votes and capital, and 5,500 call options, privately and via the wholly-owned company MiRé Holding AB.

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