Rikard Olsson
Managing Director, Beyond Budgeting LtdPartner, Ekan Management | Chairman, Lagnall Group

Rikard Olsson is the Managing Director of Beyond Budgeting Ltd, a Partner and Board member at Ekan Management,and Chairman of the Board for Lagnell Group. He also serves as a board member at Maneuver, a marketing agency
based in Sweden.
Alongside leading the work of the Core Team of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, Rikard drives majortransformation projects and training workshops through Beyond Budgeting Advisory and the Beyond
Budgeting Institute.
In addition to his formal roles, Rikard is a lecturer at the School of Business, Economics and Law atGöteborg University, and a sought-after speaker at conferences, where he shares his expertise on theBeyond Budgeting principles, Agile Finance, and the development of Finance functions and CRM &BI tools.
Rikard’s background includes many years of experience in senior finance positions within thepharmaceutical industry, and he is an alumni of the School of Business, Economics and Law
at Göteborg University.

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rolsson@bbrt.org

Bjarte Bogsnes
Chairman, Beyond Budgeting Round TableFounder, Bogsnes Advisory

Bjarte Bogsnes is a pioneer in the Beyond Budgeting movement with a long international career, both in Finance and HR.
He has helped numerous companies globally on their Beyond Budgeting journeys. Currently, he is leading theimplementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), Scandinavia’s largest company, prior to which he led
a similar initiative in Borealis in the mid-nineties. Borealis is one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgetingmodel.
Bjarte is Chairman of Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) and a popular international business speaker andBeyond Budgeting coach. He is also a winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation
award
A respected writer, Bjarte is the author of “Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance
Potential”, where he writes about his almost thirty year Beyond Budgeting journey. His new book “This is
Beyond Budgeting – A Guide to more Adaptive and Human Organizations”, with a foreword by Gary Hamel,
was published in early 2023.
Bjarte is available for speaking engagements and select consulting work through Bogsnes Advisory.

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bjarte@bogsnesadvisory.com

Steve Morlidge
Director, Satori Partners
Product Director, Catchbull

Dr Steve Morlidge is a member of the Beyond Budgeting Institute core team with 30 years’ practical experience in designing andrunning performance management systems. Steve has been associated with our network since its inception and is a former
chairman of the European Beyond Budgeting Round Table.
During his time with Unilever, he spent three years leading a Beyond Budgeting initiative for the company. He now works as amanagement thinker, writer and speaker, drawing on his years of experience at the leading edge of performance management
thought and practice.
Steve has published several books: ‘Future Ready’ (2010), ‘The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting’ (2017), The Little Book of
Operational Forecasting’ (2019), Present Sense’ (2019), ‘Zen and the Art of Organising Work’ (2021) and ‘Cost Matters’(2023).
He is on the editorial board of Foresight, a forecasting practitioner’s journal published by the International Institute ofForecasting to which he regularly contributes. He also co-founded CatchBull, a supplier of forecasting performance
management software for the Supply Chain community.
Steve is a visiting fellow at Cranfield University in the UK, and a visiting Professor at BPP University, London. He hasa PhD from Hull Business School on the application of systems concepts to the design of complex organisations,and a BA from Durham University. He is also a qualified management accountant (CIMA).

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steve.morlidge@satoripartners.com

Anders OlesenPartner, Basico

Anders Olsen has been a member of the Beyond Budgeting core team since 2013.
He is a Senior Partner in Basico, a Danish consultancy specialising in helping customers’ support functions. Basicois the official Beyond Budgeting Partner in Denmark having previously been an active member of the Beyond
Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) for many years.
As a consultant, Anders helps companies improve their performance management practices. This includes
helping companies succeed on their Beyond Budgeting journeys. He has published numerous articles andcase studies illustrating successful Beyond Budgeting adoptions.
Before joining Basico, Anders held finance and management positions in several international industrialcompanies; including Borealis, which abolished traditional budgeting in the mid 90’s.
Anders’ career started in Arthur Andersen where he earned a degree as a State Authorised PublicAccountant. Anders holds an MSc in business economics and auditing from Copenhagen Business
School, and an executive MBA from IMD in Switzerland.

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aolesen@bbrt.org

Dag Larsson
Chairman, Ekan Management

Dag Larsson is Senior Advisor and COB of Ekan Management, a Swedish management consulting firm. Ekan is theofficial Beyond Budgeting Partner in Sweden.
Dag has more than 40 years’ experience helping companies and organisations achieve their ambitions. Since theearly eighties, he has been engaged in many strategic and business transformation assignments, as well as thedevelopment and implementation of several new management control systems.
Dag started his career in a scientific foundation related to Gothenburg School of Economics, which focusedon the development and implementation of new management control models based on the Scandinavian
Management Tradition.
He holds an MBA and an SMC, is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a former chairman of theSwedish Management Consultants Organisation.

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dag.larsson@ekan.com

Franz Röösli

Franz Röösli has been a core team member of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT) since 2005.
Alongside his Beyond Budgeting commitments, Franz is head of the Institute for Organisational Viability at theUniversity of Applied Sciences Zurich (ZHAW). Here he lectures and conducts research into how companies adapt
and respond to megatrends such as digitalisation, globalisation and mobility in today’s ever-changing businesslandscape.
Based in Switzerland, Franz advises companies in the areas of organisational design, leadership and strategy,
and has been instrumental in shaping the way businesses approach budgeting and performance managementin pursuit of sustainable viability. Prior to his university career, he worked for many years in management
positions in small and medium sized enterprises, and large companies.
A skilled and respected author, Franz co-authored the book The Leader’s Dilemma with BBRT founders
Jeremy Hope and Peter Bunce, and his articles have featured in several practitioner and academic
journals.

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roeo@zhaw.ch