Background

Sam Aston is the owner and contact person for Astonishing Management.

Sam is a multi-cultural entrepreneur and business leader, born and raised in Sweden, with a Swedish mother and a father from India. Sam's grandmother was from Poland and grandfather from Denmark. Sam has lived in Sweden, Denmark, Israel and Switzerland.

Sam have 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience whereof 14 years as CEO.

Quick resumé:

• CEO of Apptus from the start in 2000 until 2006
• Founder and CEO of Epsilon IT which grew from 0 to about 300 MSEK 2006-2012
• Member of the executive board at Epsilon group 2006 -2012
• CEO within EVRY which is the second largest IT Company in the Nordic region 2012-

• Partner at global executive search firm Amrop
• Board of directors i several companies and institutions (Malmoe University faculty TS,

Formal education

• Leadership of the future, Copenhagen business school 2011.
• Rapid growth leadership, Ahrens University Adapted MBA for leaders of rapid growth

• Business economy, University of economics, Stockholm 2000
• Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology

Personal

Sam is married to Christina Aston with two children born 2000 and 2002. Resident in Limhamn in the outskirts of Malmoe. On his spare time he really enjoy spending time with his family and friends.

Sam's interests are everything that makes life more enjoyable which includes things like music, film, art, food, wine, malt whisky and champagne. Sam and his family like to travel and they prefer active vacations such as skiing in the alps. Sam is also a dedicated golfer. Sam exercises regularly in different ways such as bicycling, jogging, strength training and playing floorball.