Sweden’s insurance sector is a different security environment than banking and payments. Insurers and pension providers manage long-lived policies, sensitive health and financial data, and complex claims and underwriting workflows that depend on brokers, partners, and third-party administrators. They also face regulatory pressure that blends financial oversight with resilience requirements, while maintaining customer trust across decades-long relationships.
The leaders featured below are shaping how insurers, pension providers, and insurance-adjacent firms build security programs that can withstand modern threats without slowing business operations.
Mikael Grönvik — Chief Information Security Officer, Futur
Mikael Grönvik is the Chief Information Security Officer at Futur Pension, where he leads information security strategy and execution in a pension and insurance environment. His background combines advisory depth from PwC, where he led implementation and strategic IT-security work, with experience in high-security public sector environments at FOI. Across roles, he has worked on security architecture, awareness programs, penetration testing and red teaming coordination, security compliance, and audits aligned to frameworks such as CIS controls, NIST CSF, and ISO 27000, bringing a practical, resilience-focused approach to protecting regulated, data-rich insurance operations.
Tommy Morin — Chief Information Security Officer, Collectum
Tommy Morin is the Chief Information Security Officer at Collectum, bringing long-standing experience in IT, product development, and digitalization with a strong focus on building and maturing security capabilities. His background includes leadership and management responsibilities, governance and process development, and extensive work spanning IT continuity, outsourcing and sourcing, and enterprise-wide security program buildout. He is known for combining strategic direction with operational execution, supporting insurance-focused organizations as they modernize their platforms while managing risk across complex stakeholder ecosystems.
Peter Bayer — Chief Information Security Officer, Stockholmsregionens Försäkring AB
Peter Bayer serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at Stockholmsregionens Försäkring AB, where he is part of the executive management team and leads the organization’s security strategy and operating program. His responsibilities include risk and incident management, managing the security budget, shaping the strategic information security roadmap, and developing decision-support materials for senior leadership. He also drives security awareness initiatives and monitors emerging threats and industry trends to ensure the organization’s controls, priorities, and investments remain aligned to current risk conditions.
Linda Avad — Chief Information Security Officer, Alecta
Linda Avad is the Chief Information Security Officer at Alecta, bringing more than two decades of information security experience alongside a background in cyber defense from Försvarsmakten. Her leadership blends strategic oversight with delivery discipline, informed by experience with agile ways of working and software project management. With a focus on building robust security foundations, she supports long-term institutional trust and resilience in an environment where data sensitivity, regulatory expectations, and operational continuity are central.
Marja Juoperi — Chief Information Security Officer, PRI Pensionsgaranti
Marja Juoperi is the Chief Information Security Officer at PRI Pensionsgaranti, focused on turning information security strategy into operational excellence. Her remit spans information security and cyber security leadership, risk management, legal and compliance alignment, and driving programs across areas such as ISMS/ISO 27000, NIST, COBIT, ITIL, OWASP, DORA, GDPR, AI, application security, third-party risk management, and identity and access management. She is recognized for accelerating important security initiatives while ensuring the program supports business priorities and measurable outcomes.
Maria Welin-Persson — Chief Information Security Officer, Afa Försäkring
Maria Welin-Persson is the Chief Information Security Officer at Afa Försäkring, bringing experience across business control and insurance operations into a security leadership role. Her background includes working in complex, established insurance environments and applying structured approaches to service management and process governance. She helps shape security efforts that support stability, operational effectiveness, and long-term trust, aligning information security with the realities of insurance business models and internal service delivery.
Jonas Svanström — Chief Information Security Officer, Skandia
Jonas Svanström is a Chief Information Security Officer and consultant with strategic, tactical, and operational responsibility across information security, crisis and continuity, and risk and compliance. He has experience working group-wide across multiple subsidiaries in the financial sector and is recognized for strong communication and executive-level reporting to leadership teams and boards. With certifications including CISM, CRISC, and CISA, he supports organizations in establishing and developing CISO functions, building governance and reporting structures, and strengthening security and risk management across insurance and adjacent financial environments.
Thomas Åkerman — Chief Information Security Officer, Dina Försäkringar
Thomas Åkerman is the Chief Information Security Officer at Dina Försäkringar, with a focus on regulatory compliance and risk assessment in a highly governed insurance context. His background includes senior consulting work in information security, supporting organizations with structured approaches to risk, assurance, and compliance requirements. He brings a pragmatic blend of advisory and execution experience to strengthening security programs that must remain effective across distributed operations and evolving regulatory expectations.
Sandra Nordvall — Chief Information Security Officer, Fora AB
Sandra Nordvall is the Chief Information Security Officer at Fora AB, bringing a deep operational understanding of pensions and insurance administration into her security leadership. Her career includes responsibility for IT production management and earlier experience in pension and insurance administration, giving her strong insight into the workflows, data handling, and operational dependencies that security programs must protect. She is well positioned to bridge business operations and security requirements, ensuring controls are practical, adoption is realistic, and resilience is built into day-to-day delivery.
Caroline Hallin — Chief Information Security Officer, Säkra
Caroline Hallin is the Chief Information Security Officer at Säkra, with more than 25 years of leadership experience spanning banking and insurance. Her background includes responsibility across security, enterprise architecture, crisis and continuity, data protection, operational risk, governance, and major digital change programs. Known for a clear and coaching leadership style, she brings breadth across strategy and execution, supporting security programs that must function across complex organizations while enabling business transformation.
Security Leadership in Sweden’s Insurance Sector
Insurance security leadership is increasingly defined by resilience, trust, and operational realism. While insurers share regulatory pressure with other financial institutions, they also face unique exposures tied to claims operations, underwriting data, long-duration customer relationships, and partner-driven distribution models. The leaders above reflect how Sweden’s insurance sector is strengthening governance, building mature security programs, and evolving capabilities to protect customers and business continuity in an increasingly hostile threat landscape.