Mari Nygård Head of Virtual Data Rooms Admincontrol

Mari Nygård is responsible for the Data Room business area in Admincontrol. She is passionate about digitalization and about providing smart solutions that facilitate decision making processes for owners, management and key stakeholders.

Mari has 14 years of experience in sales, business development and management, mainly in software and telecom. Before joining Admincontrol in 2015, she worked in Telia.

She holds an MSc degree within Business Administration and Marketing from RSM Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Jason Richards Head of Portfolio Technology HG Capital

Jason has more than twenty five years of leadership and experience in establishing successful Global Information Technology organisations within large Global Enterprises and Mid-sized Global Corporations.

In particular, he has held ‘C’ Level Executive level positions within a series of Private Equity owned software companies and has been a key contributor in their transformation and resulting business success. He is very familiar with protecting and enhancing the value of acquisitions, the art of divestitures and has additionally been through the lifecycle of a very successful IPO.

Jason has a track record of building robust ‘Business engaged IT Organisations’ that operate on the principles of honesty, transparency, Business-IT partnerships and value creation. He is also experienced in and knowledgeable of; IT Strategy and Programme development; Global Systems Architectures (Cloud, Business Applications and Infrastructure); IT Organisational Design and Behaviours; IT Fiscal management and optimisation; Vendor Management and Commercial Negotiation and Cybersecurity.

Jason has contributed to the wider IT industry through Key Note speeches, Advisory Board/Panel contributions and through published articles and webinars.

Rupert Cocke Spanish Bureau Chief Mergermarket

Rupert Cocke has been the Acuris Spanish bureau chief since 2005. He splits the week between Madrid and Barcelona. Rupert has more than 20 years of experience as a financial news reporter. He began to specialize in Spanish M&A in 2002 when he joined the group as a senior reporter in London. He previously worked with Dow Jones Newswires in London and Madrid, where his work was regularly featured in the Wall Street Journal Europe. He has a Philosophy degree from the University of Leeds. As bureau chief, he studied for an MA in Media Management Practice from Bournemouth University's Centre for Excellence in Media Practice in his spare time, successfully completing this degree in 2015.