Our Team

The core team of Vadestra Strategy consists of 6 senior advisors and a team of 6 analysts. The team is also supported by 4 part-time research analysts.


We are supported by a network of 13 senior industrial advisors with extensive industry and top management experience.

The partners are:

Alexander Asplund, partner
Alexander has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Alexander has 15 years of experience in strategic advice services having worked previously for Klaraberg Business Advisors, The Boston Consulting Group and Celerant Consulting.

Alf Blomqvist, partner

Alf has more than 25 years of experience from Corporate Finance and Private Equity. Prior to Vadestra Alf was CEO of Ledstiernan AB (publ), head of corporate finance at Swedbank and head of equity capital markets at Carnegie corporate finance. Alf has a broad experience from board assignments in different industries. Current board member of Cision AB (publ). Education at Stockholm School of Economics.


Daniel Ring, managing partner
Daniel has experience from Strategic advisory and Transaction advisory working with large and medium sized companies as well as investors within a wide array of industries. Prior to Vadestra, he gained valuable experience from international investment banking and the Swedish hedge fund industry. Daniel has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Linköping Institute of Technology.

Niklas has an MBA from Lund University and University of Cologne. Niklas has 8 years of experience in strategic advice services at Klaraberg Business Advisors and Vadestra Strategy and 4 years of experience in corporate finance and auditing.

Svante Östblom, partner

Svante has more than 20 years of experience as advisor in supporting the work of building full-potential companies. Svante has been engaged in business development of a large number of international and domestic companies in a broad variety of industries.  MBA from Uppsala University.