Niclas Kjellström-Matseke is a Swedish-South African business leader with a two-decade career as a marketing-oriented CEO and international investor in Europe and Africa. He has a special focus on sustainable business, engaged in UN’s pioneering work with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a Board Member of the SDSN (Sustainable Development Solutions Network). Niclas was the CEO of Novamedia Nordics from 2005-2015. Novamedia/The Postcode Lottery has under Niclas’ 10 years as CEO showed tremendous growth and became the industry’s most profitable company. Niclas has also over a decade of experience investing for social impact, since Novamedia/ The Postcode Lottery became the world’s third largest private donor, after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Wellcome Trust, distributing approximately $11 billion.
In 2016, Niclas relocated to South Africa to build a portfolio of investments in the real estate, environmental engineering, and finance industries. 2021 he returned back to Sweden to lead Talent Venture Group as Group CEO, an investment company holding +20 ventures in the ”tech & talent” industry. In 2013, Niclas received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights – The Ripple of Hope Award for his “dynamic and creative leadership” bringing together the business, political, and civic communities. He was born in 1970 in Sweden and holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics and Babson College, USA. He also holds a degree in Economics and Social Science from Uppsala University.