‘If you’ve worked in politics, the stock market doesn’t scare you’: Håkan Tribell on swapping writing a prime minister’s speeches for managing IR at AAC Clyde Space

A career that saw him write speeches for Ulf Kristersson led to joining the satellite technology and services company

Most people’s route into IR follows one of two predictable paths: either a start on the sell-side, where they gain an aptitude for understanding financial research, or via an internal route that may take in financial planning, treasury or accountancy roles.

For Håkan Tribell, it was a career writing speeches for the Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson that set him up perfectly to join satellite technology and services company AAC Clyde Space as its head of communications for investor relations and public affairs earlier this year. In July, that role expanded to take on ‘the full spectrum of marketing and communications’ for the Nasdaq First North-listed company.

Tribell, who also previously worked at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and served as director of ideas at the Nordic think tank Timbro, has spent more than two decades in communication roles across many sectors, and says that it is this breadth of experience that has enabled his success at the space technology company that designs, builds and launches satellites into orbit.

Håkan Tribell

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