Lennart Holm is a Partner and Head of the Nordic team.

Lennart who joined PAI partners in 2007 has 25 years experience from international manufacturing and process industry. He started his professional career in the chemical industry where he worked with marketing and sales in Asia and Europe for his first 5 years with EKA Chemicals, today part of the Akzo Nobel group. He thereafter spent a few years with BT Industries, today part of Toyota, working on outsourcing and full service leasing concepts before he in 1989 joined the pulp and paper maker STORA, today StoraEnso. Within StoraEnso he was initially engaged as a general manager for R&D but soon moved on to marketing and sales where he became managing director for the groups global pulp sales located in Düsseldorf before he in 1994 advanced to the position as CEO for Stora Cell, the groups market pulp operations, and member of the top management group of STORA. In 1997, Lennart moved on to a position as CEO for Faxe Paper Pigments, part of the Belgium company Lhoist. In 2001, he joined Perstorp as CEO and remained in this position until the end of 2006 when he became chairman of the group.

Lennart holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and a degree in Finance from the University of Gothenburg. He speaks Swedish (native), English (fluent), Danish (fluent), German and Japanese (basic).