Mathieu Ahlstrom Email Address

Digital Workplace Solution Manager: Accessing, Enabling and Digital Facilities

The foundation is an independent entity with legal personality and its own governing bodies. The foundation exists for an unlimited period of time. Ingvar Kamprad, the creator of IKEA, has a true passion for his lifework and wished to secure the independence and longevity of the IKEA Concept, including e.g. the IKEA Trademarks. Inter IKEA and Interogo Foundation were established during the 1980s to secure independence and longevity of the IKEA Concept. The IKEA Concept is the core asset of Inter IKEA Group and its franchisor operation. The overall purpose of Inter IKEA Group is to secure continuous improvement, development, expansion and a long life of the IKEA Concept. This will require investments in both good and bad times. With Interogo Foundations’ long-term perspective and obligation to remain independent, a public listing of the Inter IKEA companies can never be an option. The foundation ownership structure with an unlimited life period secures independence and longevity. Interogo Foundation is the ultimate owner of Inter IKEA Group, including Inter IKEA Systems B.V., the worldwide IKEA franchisor and owner of the IKEA Concept. In this manner the IKEA Concept will remain under the ultimate and undivided control of Interogo Foundation, over generations and irrespective of changes related to individuals or family relationships. And thus avoid a fragmentation of ownership that potentially could occur if it would have been family owned or publicly listed. For these reasons, the Liechtenstein Foundation law, offering a particular form of enterprise foundations (Unternehmensstiftung), was found to be best suited for the purpose for which Interogo Foundation was established.

I'm a continuous learner who enjoys thorny challenges and really getting hands-on. My biggest moments of pride are when my teams and I have managed to learn something new while delivering great results. Or from another angle: I'm an energetic and technically-minded leader with deep global retailing and communications knowledge. Sitting still just isn't something I'm good at. Today I'm doing IT Service Owner work for Digital Workplace solutions, but past experiences include: Digital development - Enterprise Search, metadata governance, enterprise identity management solutions, Sharepoint development Bricks-and-mortar - Large store rebuilding projects, high-profile marketing events, line management Communications - Brand manuals, magazine production, radio production, event facilitation and community management. I'm a consistently dynamic public speaker and trainer with proven ability to engage audiences. An international upbringing and career has made me multilingual with high degree of comfort in multi-cultural situations. Also I'm currently building up my (Scrum) Agile muscles with our in-house Agile evangelist. We started with a few projects and are now gently scaling things up.