Lars Tvede is a professional investor and a serial entrepreneur who over the last 30 years has founded a string of companies within telecommunication, software development, property and finance. In 2016, he co-founded venture capital fund Nordic Eye, which produced over 100% cash return in its first full year and won the Investor of the Year Award in 2018. Furthermore, in 2019, he co-founder the think tank Futures Institute and the forecasting company Supertrends; both based in Switzerland. Lars has been listed as one of the world’s leading marketing gurus. He is also author of 16 books, which combined have been translated to 11 languages and printed in over 50 editions.
Lars Tvede spent 11 years in portfolio management and investment banking before moving to the high-tech and telecommunications industries, where he co-founded several technology companies that have won numerous international awards, including Wall Street Journal Europe Innovation Award, Red Herring Global 100 Award and Swiss IMD Startup Award.
Lars obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark and a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from Copenhagen Business School. While pursuing these two degrees in parallel, he also founded two start-ups. Later in life, he also became a certified derivatives trader and professional asset manager. He has written 16 books on creativity, marketing, high-tech, the future, innovation and financial markets, including the international bestsellers The Creative Society, Supertrends, The Psychology of Finance and Business Cycles.
Lars specialises in a lot of disciplines and industries such as creativity, innovation, venture capital business, entrepreneurship, future technologies, personal development and investment strategies.
His Keynote Topics
- Entrepreneurship
- creativity
- Innovation
- how to predict the future
- Investment strategies
Lars Tvede has hold several hundred conference key-notes plus speeches for companies such as Novo, McKinsey, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Danske Bank, Boston Consulting Group, Triton, SE Bank, etc. Also guest host CNBC, TED talks, etc.