Jesper Brodin, CEO, Ingka Group | IKEA

Mr Jesper Brodin is the President and CEO of Ingka Group, IKEA.

Ingka Group, formerly know as IKEA Group, is one of the world’s largest home furnishing retailer and owns and operates more than 400 IKEA stores in 32 markets (FY21) under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Ingka Group was founded by Ingvar Kamprad and is a strategic partner in the IKEA franchise systems and in addition to operate IKEA Retail, the company consists of Ingka Centres and Ingka Investments.

Mr Brodin started his IKEA career in 1995 as the Purchase manager in Pakistan, IKEA Group. During the years he has held different roles such as assistant to Ingvar Kamprad and Anders Dahlvig, CEO at the time, Business area manager Kitchen and Dining as well as his recent role as Managing Director for Range & Supply, Inter IKEA Group. He has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Work experience:

2017 CEO, Ingka Group, IKEA
2016 IKEA Range & Supply Manager, MD IKEA of Sweden, Inter IKEA Group
2013 IKEA Range & Supply Manager, MD IKEA of Sweden, IKEA Group
2011 IKEA Supply Manager, IKEA of Sweden, IKEA Group
2008 Regional Purchase Manager China, IKEA Group
2002 Business Area Manager Kitchen and Dining, IKEA of Sweden, IKEA Group
1999 Assistant to Ingvar Kamprad and Anders Dahlvig, CEO at the time, IKEA Group
1997 Regional Purchase manager South East Asia, IKEA Group
1995 Purchase manager in Pakistan, IKEA Group

Ms Camilla Bullock is the CEO and co-founder of Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPA). She has a long career in the financial technology industry and often talks about coming home when she started her work in the payments industry. Payments is the part of the financial service’s that touch people’s lives every day, and through EPA Asia work lives can be improved. The payments industry offered her an opportunity to combine her passion for fintech and humanitarian questions.

She is loving her role where she can combine intellect, creativity with enthusiasm and energy to connect people, create opportunities and ideas from the apparently abstract connections she sees between situations, businesses, problems and people. When she was twelve months into setting up EPA Asia she was approached and asked the question why there were so few women involved in the program. She was taken by surprise. Running fast and creating on the go, she had forgotten to reflect if the people they engaged were male or female. She there and then set the goal of reaching a 50% gender balance in the association.

Project Meet-Her started as a series of lunch events with the goal to involve female thought leaders in the EPA Asia agenda. COVID-19 forced EPA Asia to adopt the program, it has evolved and is now an online event series that will result in a book – Meet Her – She knows Payments.