Pelle Törnberg

Mr. Pelle TOrnberg is an innovative and dynamic CEO, who has successfully built, listed and led two profitable international media businesses (Metro International - the world's largest international newspaper, and Modern Times Group. Northern Europe's largest broadcaster , including Russia), with a current combined market capitalisation of US$ 4.6 billion. In addition. Mr. TOrnberg established, expanded and grew the world's largest subtitling and dubbing company - SDI. Mr. TOrnberg is also the Chairman of two listed companies - MTG & P4 - and is a director in more than 10 businesses Mr. TOrnberg was profiled as one of the 25 °Stars of Europe* by Business Week in 2004.

As CEO from 2000-2007, Mr. TOrnberg developed and commercialized the Metro concept and, from an initial team of fewer than 10, built a 1400-strong global organization. He launched and led businesses in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, UK, Holland, France, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Poland. Russia. Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil Chile, Mexico. Korea and Hong Kong. He organized and managed two private placements, resulting in funding of US$ 131 million for Metro. Mr. TOrnberg successfully negotiated partnership deals with Janet Robinson, CEO of the New York Times. Jakko Rauramo. CEO of Sanoma. Robert Prichard CEO of Torstar and Patrick LeLay, of TF1.

As CEO and Director of Modern Times Group from 1993-2000, Mr. TOrnberg launched many of the entities that formed Kinnevik Media/MTG. He restructured and made them profitable. Mr. TOrnberg established what is now the largest commercial Radio and TV network in the Baltic and Scandinavia. He led the bid to win the only terrestrial TV Licence in Sweden (awarded by the Government), later merged into 11/4, and subsequently sold for US$ 121 million, at a profit of US$ 95 million. Mr. Milberg negotiated with Romain Bausch (SES/Astra) and Sam Chisholm/David Chance (BSkyB) to secure a US$ 72 million satellite deal involving the sale of four Astra transponders to Sky and reconfiguring the receiving dishes of c.600k MTG viewers. (David Chance was subsequently appointed to the MTG Board). Mr. TOrnberg bought out Time Warner from 1V1000 through negotiations with Jeff Bewkes (President and COO of Time Warner) and created Europe's only profitable pay-TV business in full competition. He established one of the first pan-European on-line portals, www.everyday.com, with Niclas Zenstrom as MD and Scandinavia's largest on-line retailer CDON.

Pelle Törnberg is the Venture Advisor at Felix Capital, based in Europe. With a background in Financial Services, Pelle Törnberg has a rich history of leadership and innovation.Pelle Törnberg studied unknown Journalism at University of Gothenburg. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.