EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM

Martin Ratz
Co-founder and Managing Director of the Paragona Group.

Martin is based in our office in Stockholm, Sweden.

Prior to founding Paragona in 2002, Martin worked with the world’s largest private educational firm, EF Education. An Executive Vice President for EF English First, Martin was based in Indonesia, Poland and Sweden. EF English First grew to become the largest chain of local English language schools in the developing world, with hundreds of corporate and franchised schools.

Previously, Martin worked at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, UNIDO in Vienna and in the software development sector.

Martin holds an MSc degree in Economics and Business. He graduated from Lund University, Sweden. Martin was on a Wallenberg Scholarship at Oxford University, England and on an Erasmus Scholarship at the Vienna School of Economics, Austria.

Adam Ringer
Co-founder and Chairman

Sometime after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Adam left academia in Sweden and started a consulting firm in Poland, his native country which he had left 26 years earlier. To date, the consulting firm has assisted hundreds of organizations considering expansion in Poland or Eastern Europe - primarily from the Nordic region. He is the CEO of Ena Ltd and co-owner of the Ena Group and the Chairman of Green Coffee.

Adam has been on the board of directors of several companies: Preem Polska Ltd, Stena Line Polska Ltd, Kapp Ahl Polska Ltd, Corporate Express Polska Ltd and The Polish Organization of Oil Industry and Trade. He was also a co-founder of and for many years board member of Kalmena and Medena Ltd. In his capacity as a senior consultant, Adam has also worked with, among others, the following organizations: Skanska, Volvo Truck, The ÅF - group and SAAB Aerospace.

Adam has a BSc in Economics, Business Administration and Political Science from Stockholm University, Sweden. He completed PhD studies and was a lecturer in Political Science, Stockholm University and in studies for Graduate Seminars in Modern Polish History, Uppsala University.

Jonas Kohlin
Director

Jonas is based in our office in Stockholm, Sweden.

Prior to joining Paragona, Jonas worked for 9 years with Bain & Company, a leading international management consultancy. With Bain & Company, Jonas advised European and US clients on strategy development and led the implementation of operational improvement programs. In addition, Jonas has extensive experience in the Private Equity sector.

Jonas holds an MSc degree in Economics and Business in the Stockholm School of Economics. He has also studied on scholarships at HEC in France and Harvard University in the US.

Kinga Lozinska
Operations Director

Immediately after graduating from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Kinga – a native of Zakopane – moved to work in Warsaw, initially as a consultant to foreign companies seeking to expand into Poland. She then worked for several years in the oil industry, gaining a thorough knowledge of the business, from exploration, development and refining to logistics through to marketing; she headed the Polish downstream business of Preem, a Saudi oil company with Scandinavian roots. Kinga has been in charge of Paragona’s Polish operations ever since the company’s establishment.

Kinga has a degree in ethnography and has completed courses in business administration. She has also studied theology.

Dominique Anxo
Professor of Labour Economics, Växjö University, Sweden

University of Paris Sorbonne, Licence en Sciences Economiques, France, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. PhD

Dominique is the Director of the Centre for European Labour Market Studies (CELMS) and Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the School of Economics and Commercial Law, University of Göteborg, Sweden.

Dominique has a broad research interest and has published numerous articles on Labour Economics, Industrial Relations and the Economics of Production.

Marcus Möbius
Assistant Professor Harvard, USA

Marcus is Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His primary field of interest includes applied theory and industrial organization. Research topics cover the economics of networks, evolutionary game theory, industrial organization and economics of work organization.

Marcus has published several articles in leading academic journals and regularly holds seminars and lectures across the USA and overseas.

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