Finn Persson

Being a management consultant and partner at McKinsey & Co in the telecoms, IT and Media sector throughout the formative years of the mobile and internet revolution was surreal. I started out with the launch of the first digital mobile network and a colleague mentioning “Have you seen this thing Mosaic…?”. Almost 10 years later, it was the early days of the mobile internet. This was a unique period that will be remembered in the history records. I am humbly proud to have served companies who thrived on the transformative changes and successfully grew their business into industry leadership positions that they still retain.

Next, I went into the world of the young, new, and innovative technology companies. I got an opportunity to manage a venture portfolio that offered a diverse experience – closing down or divesting a number of companies that couldn’t make it; supporting some great ventures that still failed to make it, for good and bad reasons; and being a part of some real successes. Marratech has a particular place in my heart, with a great technology team and a product far ahead of its time. The team and the investors really struggled for a number of years, but the company ended up being acquired by Google and continues to have an impact today as the Google Meet platform and the WebRTC standard.

However, I saw very exciting opportunities in the Nordic market and was keen to build a new early-stage venture portfolio. I was lucky to find Erik and Mats, and together we began our journey with Spintop.
I am an engineer by training and have a particular appetite for communications technology and enterprise software. My keen interest in practicing endurance sports has helped me recognize the time and effort required to build a successful early-stage technology company.

The team members at Spintop have quite different backgrounds and personalities, while at the same time being like-minded and like-hearted. I am very excited about what we do at Spintop; certainly anything but a real job.
And what about the skiing part? I spend as much of my leisure time as I can in the mountains going off-piste with my kids, ski-touring faraway summits and trail-running throughout the spring-to-fall season. Very pleased to be without a “real job” and in spirit still a “real skier”.