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Fredrik Broberg

Marketing and Brand Manager with AI-tech startup experience

About Me

I have 15+ years experience in Marketing, Brand Management and Strategy Execution working for brands like Bisnode Group, Ericsson, IFS, AstraZeneca, Travellink and SBAB. Experience include helping brands to better understand their customers changing needs and wants, re-vitalizing and repositioning brands to stay relevant, reinventing how to create value for customers in an increasingly data-driven world, translating the changing business and positioning into concrete actions and OKRs, and adopting AI in marketing and sales to predict your customers’ next move, purchase, drive up-sell, and predict churn.

Jurisdiction

Sweden | United Kingdom | Italy | Belgium

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience6-10 years
Current StatusActive
Co-founder, Business Development, MarketingVirtual Customer, AI-powered Customer Simulation Engine for early stage innovation
2023 - Present

Leading interviews with Scania, Electrolux, SEB to disrupt the Multi $Billion global customer insights, testing and validation industry with AI-powered Virtual Customers. Challenge: Traditional validation is slow, expensive and with 75-90% failure rate. Action: Build AI-powered validation engine (15+ AI agents), enabling teams to test ideas against realistic virtual customers in hours, then vibe code with Lovable. Results: Validate 10x scenarios and ideas across multiple markets/segments, 60–70% lower spend/time vs. traditional methods. Kill weak ideas early and direct R&D spend to the 1–2 winners out of 10. Double idea-to-pilot conversion, and increase ROI.

Startup Founder in ResidenceAntler, Early Stage VC and Startup Accelerator
2023 - 2023

Among the top 3% of startup founders selected to join Antler’s, an MBA-like Accelerator Program. Antler is one of the most active accelerators in the world. Challenge: Build and validate next-generation startup ideas using Antler’s lean startup and speed validation methodology. Action: Teamed up with talent from Google, Klarna, Management, Tech and AI to build, validate and pitch new startup ideas concepts to Antlers VCs and venture partners. Results: Pitched ventures in Green Logistics, Clean Energy, Health Tech, AI-powered ESG scoring, and AI-driven Public Procurement. Winner of IF Tech Challenge; 2nd place in Google Cloud Tech Challenge.

Co-founder, CMO, Head of Sustainability/ESG-scoringAxonay.AI
2021 - Present

Co-founded AxonJay.AI during the pandemic, raising €460K seed funding and went to market with AI-Powered ESG-scoring to help brands in the Race to Zero Co2. Action: Developed brand and positioning, visual identity, GTM strategy, and investor pitch; led daily standups across 6 countries; spearheaded AI-powered ESG-scoring, later pivoting to Predictive-AI solutions for SAP and HP. Results: Built foundation for scale-up with targets of €2M ARR and €30M valuation by 2026. Positioned AxonJay.AI as a pioneer in sustainable, purpose-driven AI #DisruptWithPurpose RightHereRightNow.

Head of Group Brand ManagementBisnode Group, leading data broker in 19 markets in Europe
2018 - 2020

Successfully repositioned Bisnode Group from “legacy data” to a modern powerhouse in smarter data, analytics, and AI across 19 markets — UnleashThePowerOfData Challenge: Reposition Bisnode for growth in the data-driven business & marketing. Action: Led market research on changing data/AI needs; directed 15+ agencies on brand strategy, visual identity, positioning storytelling, campaigns, content, PR, and events. Rolled out a new brand and campaign across 19 markets #UnleashThePowerOfData. Results: Positioned Bisnode top-of-mind in data-driven business, paved the way for five new growth bets, and SEK 1.5B in sales growth. Ultimately resulted in the successful sale to Dun & Bradstreet in the US for SEK 8.3B.

Education

Diploma of Marketing CommunicationsBerghs School of Communications
1991 - 1992
Diploma of University Studies to work in ItalyUniversity for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy
1992 - 1993
Diploma of Lean and Agile ways of Working at EricssonExecutive Education, Stockholm School of Economics
2012 - 2013

Skills

Core skills0
Languages5

Languages

English
Norwegian
Italian
Swedish
Danish