Company Leadership
Management and Board of Directors
Mats Wallnér
Acting CEO, Board Member
Mats Wallnér has a M.Sc. in chemical engineering and MBA and is a co-founder of Polymer Factory. In his early years, Mats worked in the Alfa-Laval group as a sales engineer for fermentation facilities with responsibility for several international markets, primarily the United States. Mats had also taken on the reliability as a business area manager for food, chemicals and cellulose industries in North and South America for the AGA group.
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​He was the managing director for a leading incubator based in Stockholm with a business strategy to support and develop newly started companies coming from Universities. Today, He is a business coach, board professional and hands-on investor in more than fifteen companies.
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Mats is acting-CEO of Polymer Factory from January to December 2025.
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Elin Mignérus
CEO
Before becoming CEO of Polymer Factory in April 2021, Elin Mignérus was most recently the CEO of CathPrint AB.
In 2020, she was named one of Sweden’s most inspiring entrepreneurs by Företagarna and ALMI. Mignérus has an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and Technopreneurship from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore.
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Elin is taking maternity leave from January to December 2025.
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Dr. Michael Malkoch
CTO and Board Member
Michael Malkoch is a Professor in Functional Organic Nanomaterials at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a self-made entrepreneur with focus on advanced nanomaterials suited for medical and biomedical applications.
He holds several prestigious awards that focus of dendritic materials and their exploitation as precision polymers in currently recognized bottlenecks of the healthcare sector including polymer therapeutics, diagnostic tools, tissue adhesives and regenerative scaffolds.​
Dr. Eva Malmström Jonsson
Chairperson of the Board
Eva Malmström is a Professor of Coating Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden with a long experience in polymer synthesis and a co-founder of Polymer Factory Sweden AB.
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She was appointed deputy president of KTH between 2009-2016. Currently, she is the head of Division of Coating technology and a board member of several company and associations.
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She is also an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
Leif Gustafsson
Board Member
Leif Gustafsson has been a practicing lawyer since the 1970s mainly in the area of business law. He graduated from University of Stockholm, law faculty, and University of Amsterdam in European integration. He has worked at the ministry of justice as assistant, and at various municipal courts and the legal service of the EU Commission. From 1977 he has worked in law firms in Sweden and Belgium, the latest Baker & McKenzie, a global law firm (as partner and senior counsel).
He has written several publications on International Business Law and been a frequent lecturer on topics of law and finance. He has led transactions in a number of business sectors and has served on board of directors, engaged in e.g. aviation, finance, transport, logistics, finance and other areas.
Anders Hultman
Board Member
Anders Hultman is the CEO of AroCell, a position he has held since 2018. He has more than 20 years of experience in managerial and executive positions in finance, sales, and marketing. Furthermore, he has extensive international experience from several executive positions such as CFO, Sales Director, Product Marketing Director, and CEO in pharma, IT, telecom, and e-commerce companies.
Anders has a BSc(Econ) degree.