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Carsten Almqvist
1962Mar, 17

Carsten Almqvist

Carsten Almqvist, Swedish business executive
Casten Åke Loritz Almqvist, (born 17 March 1962 in Stockholm), is a Swedish CEO for TV4 Media since 2011. Since December 2019 he is part of Telia Company's group executive management team leading the business area TV/Media.

During the fall of 2021, Casten Almqvist was appointed chairman of the board at Bonnier Books that owns Bonnierförlagen in Sweden, WSOY in Finland, Bonnier Media Deutshland as well as BookBeat, among other. Bonnier Books is operating in seven countries and have a revenue of around 6 billion SEK.In 2008 he became CEO of Dagens Industri and Bonnier Business Press. In 2011 he was appointed CEO of TV4 and in 2013 head of the business area Bonnier Broadcasting, extending the scope to also include C More and Finish MTV Media. He was appointed "Digital Change Leader of the Year" in 2016 due to his work with accelerating the digital transformation at TV4 and Bonnier Broadcasting. TV4 was the most profitable commercial broadcaster in Europe in 2019 and 2020.

He has also been the CEO of McCann-Erickson and the CEO of channels TV3, TV6 ad ZTV at MTG.

He graduated from Journalisthögskolan in Stockholm in 1986. Casten Almqvist has worked as a journalist and television producer for Strix Television and SVT.

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