Daniel Sachs

Daniel Sachs

Born	(1970-04-02) April 2, 1970 (age 55) Stockholm
Title	Business leader
Relatives	Joen Sachs (father) Lisbeth Sachs (mother)

Sachs grew up in Stockholm. His father Joen Sachs is a professor of architecture and his mother Lisbeth Sachs Öhrling, is a social anthropologist. His grandfather, Ragnar Sachs, was the CEO of Nordiska Kompaniet (NK), which was started by Sachs' great-frandfather, Josef Sachs.^[2] Sachs' great-great-grandfather, Simon Sachs, came from Germany to Stockholm in the early 1850s to work at Joseph Leja's department store at Regeringsgatan 5.^{[citation needed]}

Sachs holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.^[3] He first worked in the private equity firm Segulah^[3] during the 1990s. He served as a board member of the Spray group from 1995, where he became CEO from 2000 to 2001, leading a significant restructuring and rescue operation during the dot-com bubble difficulties.^[4]^[5] Between 2003 and 2022, he served as the CEO of the investment firm Proventus AB. He is also the founder and CEO of P Capital Partners, a lender and financial partner for entrepreneurial and family-owned businesses across Northern Europe. P Capital Partners was acquired by Sachs and its employees in 2013. Additionally, Sachs serves on the board of Wallenberg Investments AB.^[6]^[7]

In 2007, Sachs was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has been attending most of the annual conferences celebrated in Davos.^[8] He is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), vice-chair of George Soros' Open Society Foundations, collaborator at Obama Foundation (Barack Obama's think tank)^[9]^[10] and an advisor to the Europe program at Chatham House in London^[11]^[12]^[13]

In 2010, he founded the Daniel Sachs Foundation, a non-partisan philanthropic organization dedicated to political thought and the defense of democracy. The foundation collaborates with other organizations such as Apolitical Foundation, Multitudes Foundation and Höj Rösten Politikerskola in Sweden.^[14] ^[15]

In 2021, he founded the Foundation for Democracy & Pluralism, a fund that supports projects that aim to promote free and just societies with a strong anchoring in democratic principles. ^[16]

Sachs also became chairman of the Swedish TV channel TV4 in 2005 and was on the board of the Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre from 2009 to 2017.^[17] From 2000 he participated in film production companies, and has acted as executive producer for award-winning films and TV series, including Om Gud vill (2006), Cornelis (2010), and Gräns (2018). He was one of the hosts for the popular radio programme Sommar in 2013.^[18]

Biography

Personal life

Filmography (Executive Producer)

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