Erik Skog

Background

About Erik Skog

Erik has more than 30 years of experience in senior management positions in sales driven organisations. Following a career in marketing and sales he has since 1992 in an owner role funded, bought, run and sold ten companies. In addition, he has been the chairman and investor in another handful of young, fast growing companies. He has also been active as a business angel. He is a graduate from the Stockholm School of Economics and has been Program Director at SSE Executive Education and Career Director for the SSE Full Time MBA. He has also been lecturing in the SSE Executive MBA. Besides lecturing, he is operational as Founding Partner of management consultancy firm Sahlgren & Skog. As a firm believer that sales proficiency is not only about the performance of individual sales people, Erik now consults CEOs and Sales Directors in how to manage sales processes, methodology and organisational changes to ensure build-in efficiency in sales teams. Clients consist of B2B organisations with a turnover ranging from $ 50 m to $ 5b. Erik also consults investors and PE firms in assessing portfolio companies’ sales organisations before IPOs and private M & As. Further, Erik is engaged in the entrepreneurial education of youth and students. He is a Visiting Teacher at the Stockholm School of Economics running a course at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and also associated to Karolinska Institutet as Course Director in the Bioentrepreneurship Master Program. He was also the Chairman of the National Board of Junior Achievement Sweden (Ung Företagsamhet) 2009-2013.