Sweden’s software sector is built on speed: global SaaS expansion, product-led growth, and constant iteration across cloud-native stacks and distributed teams. That pace creates a unique security balancing act, enabling innovation while tightening governance, protecting data across regions, and building security into engineering culture. The Chief Information Security Officers and cybersecurity leaders below reflect how modern software companies blend technical depth, pragmatic risk management, and scalable controls to grow securely.
Mark Strande — Chief Information Security Officer, Miro
Mark Strande leads security at Miro as the company evolves from an online whiteboard into an AI Innovation Workspace used by large enterprises. Under his leadership, Miro has emphasized enterprise-grade security capabilities through Enterprise Guard, including bring-your-own-key encryption, automated data classification, and security guardrails. Miro is also industry-first certified for AI governance under ISO/IEC 42001, reinforcing trust for customers adopting AI at scale while maintaining rapid innovation and global expansion.
Emma Lundberg — Chief Information Security Officer and Head of R&D, Digpro
Emma Lundberg combines security leadership with research and development oversight at Digpro, bringing a collaborative and progress-driven mindset to how security integrates with product development. Her leadership style emphasizes openness, factual decision-making, and momentum, qualities well suited to software environments where security must support innovation rather than constrain it. She represents a growing profile of security leaders who operate directly within engineering and R&D functions.
Riccardo Pietri — Chief Information Security Officer, Trade Ledger
Riccardo Pietri is a highly technical security leader with deep expertise in information security risk, security operations, and security architecture. Holding certifications including CISSP, CISM, CASP+, and ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, he brings a hands-on, architecture-driven approach to securing modern software platforms. His work focuses on practical, engineering-aligned security that protects systems without slowing delivery.
Anna Svanberg — Chief Information Security Officer, Lumera AB
Anna Svanberg has served as Chief Information Security Officer at Lumera AB (formerly Itello AB) since 2020, following a long career across quality assurance, operations, and delivery leadership within the same organization. This operational foundation supports a security program focused on reliability, compliance, and scale, key priorities for enterprise software platforms serving regulated and high-availability environments.
Lars Öbom — Chief Information Security Officer, B3 Consulting Group
Lars Öbom is Chief Information Security Officer at B3 Consulting Group and also serves as a Business Information Security Officer within B3 Cloud. His background in process management, IT service frameworks, and change leadership enables a structured and repeatable approach to security governance, particularly valuable in consulting-led software organizations operating across multiple clients and delivery models.
Ronny Gustavsson — Chief Information Security Officer, Addnode Group AB
Ronny Gustavsson is Chief Information Security Officer at Addnode Group AB, bringing a rare combination of financial leadership and security oversight. With prior experience in group accounting, business control, and governance roles, he approaches information security through both a risk and value lens: supporting consistent security practices across a diversified software group with multiple business units and platforms.
Per Malviker — Chief Information Security Officer, Teamtailor
Per Malviker is a governance-focused Chief Information Security Officer with deep experience in risk management and organizational change. At Teamtailor, his work emphasizes balancing effective security controls with business efficiency, ensuring that compliance and risk management scale alongside rapid SaaS growth. His leadership style prioritizes stakeholder alignment and practical security adoption across teams.
Stefan Hellander — Chief Information Security Officer, Scaleout
Stefan Hellander serves as Chief Information Security Officer at Scaleout, following earlier roles as Head of Product and Product Owner. With a strong engineering and research background, including cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and machine learning infrastructure—he brings a product-centric perspective to security. This enables security-by-design practices that align closely with developer workflows and platform architecture.
Niklas Karlsson — Chief Information Security Officer, CheckProof
Niklas Karlsson is Chief Information Security Officer at CheckProof, having progressed through roles in information security operations and internal project delivery. His hands-on experience supports a practical approach to governance, contracts, and operational security—particularly important for SaaS companies responding to increasing customer and regulatory security requirements.
Steinar Nielsen — Chief Information Security Officer, Verified Global AB
Steinar Nielsen is a Chief Information Security Officer with experience spanning finance, medical technology, and construction, alongside strong capabilities in IT strategy, portfolio management, and agile delivery models. In a software context, this cross-industry background supports security leadership that aligns roadmap planning, risk prioritization, and scalable governance with continuous product development.
Cybersecurity Leadership in Sweden’s Software Sector
Software companies succeed on trust. Trust that data will be protected, AI capabilities governed responsibly, and platforms remain resilient as they scale globally. The Chief Information Security Officers and cybersecurity leaders featured here demonstrate how Sweden’s software industry is advancing security as a business enabler through engineering-aligned programs, scalable governance, and pragmatic risk management that keeps innovation moving.