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Lars Bertmar

Swedish businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ6491426
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Lars Bertmar (born 1945) is a Swedish businessman who was CEO and Chairman of investment bank Carnegie. He holds a PhD and is a lecturer at Stockholm School of Economics.

He graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1977.

After working for different companies, including being vice president at Handelsbanken, Bertmar became CEO of Carnegie in 1990. After 13 years as CEO, he stepped down, being replaced by Karin Forseke, and was instead elected Chairman of the company. He resigned in 2006 and was replaced by Christer Zetterberg.

He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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This entry incorporates text from Lars Bertmar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.