Our local management teams report to the Swedish head office organisation. The China and Poland Managing Directors are also part of the central management team.
CEO & President
lars-gunnar.nilsson[at]panlink.se
Phone: +46 702 66 71 86
Nationality: Swedish
Born: 1972
Employed since: 2018
Lars-Gunnar has many years experience in management positions in global manufacturing companies, most recently as General Manager at Textron GSE, and CEO of Safeaero i Trelleborg AB, as well as several management positions at PartnerTech. He holds a Master of Science in Engineering physics from Lund University.
VP Rail Business Unit
Phone: (SE) +46 701 821 332
Nationality: Irish
Born: 1973
Employed since: 2009
Over the last 15 years, Kevin has held international business development positions with industrial companies, like Molex, Futechs and PartnerTech. In these roles, he was responsible for complex, large industrial sales and managing business solutions. He holds a BSc degree in Applied Physics from University of Limerick, Ireland.
Managing Director, Asia
john.winterbourne[at]panlinkchina.com
Phone: +852 3693 4363
Nationality: British
Born: 1952
Employed since: 2009
Over 30 years of experience in the Far East working with British, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish industrial groups. He brings a strong background in strategic planning, new business development and multi-site operations project management within Asia, and especially in China. He has built solid partnering relationships within China/Asia for manufacturing products and working systems for companies like Trelleborg and Partnertech.
Quality and Business Excellence Director
Phone: +48 600 304 132
Nationality: Polish
Born: 1966
Employed since: 2018
Since the year 2002 Paweł worked for Delphi Automotive Systems, taking up various roles in the quality assurance field – starting from the Quality Engineer up till the role of Plant Quality Manager, responsible for comprehensive management of quality assurance processes on the Plant level, as well as on the global level.
Paweł studied at Technical University in Gdańsk (faculty of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Telecommunication) and has completed several professional training courses such as Lean Manufacturing, Problem Solving, Six Sigma and Shainin Red X methodology.
Managing Director Poland
alicja.wolszczak[at]panlink.pl
Phone: +48 571 441 134
Nationality: Polish
Born: 1972
Employed since: 2016
Over the last 19 years, Alicja has held various positions within the automotive industry. She has broad experience in logistic, manufacturing and quality including driving continuous improvement via Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Lean Management. Prior to joining PanLink, she worked as a Plant Manager in Delphi Automotive Systems.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, Faculty of Business Management, University in Gdańsk, Poland.
CFO
Andreas.karlsson[at]panlink.se
Phone: +46 708 20 88 19
Nationality: Swedish
Born: 1972
Employed since: 2017
Over the past 15 years, Andreas has worked in leading financial positions in international groups. Before joining PanLink he held the position as CFO for BE Group AB (publ). Andreas holds a BSc in Mechanical engineering and a MSc in Economics.
VP Sales & Marketing
Phone: +46 (0)70 109 42 45
Nationality: Swedish
Born: 1971
Employed since: 2017
Over the last 20 years, Carl-Johan has held different business development positions with Caterpillar, TeliaSonera, JRC and Scanfil in Sweden, Belgium and Italy. Carl-Johan brings solid experience from contract logistics as well as contract manufacturing.
He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping University, Sweden.