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Aico Accelerates Growth with Strategic Investment from Accel-KKR
In April 2024 Aico entered into a partnership with Accel-KKR, a global leader in technology investment. This investment fuels Aico's mission to provide large enterprises across Europe with a leading financial close platform.
Accel-KKR is a global technology-focused private equity firm with $19 billion in cumulative capital commitments. Accel-KKR is committed to growth and helping software companies deliver value to their customers through excellent products and services.
Accel-KKR's expertise and resources will propel Aico's market expansion, bringing automation, transparency, and control to the financial close process for more businesses than ever before. With this investment, Accel-KKR will join the current investor - Juuri Partners - as backers of Aico.
Introducing Our Leadership Team
Meet the people behind our commitment to excellence
Michael Teixeira is Group Chief Executive Officer of the combined Aico, Mercur, AARO business. Michael is an experienced international tech CEO with a track record of driving sustainable growth, and transforming businesses into high-performing, professional environments. He is an inclusive and values-led leader , adept at building outstanding teams and embedding a winning company culture.
Martti Lahtinen, specialises in finance, managing accounting, payments, sales invoicing, reporting and travel expense claims. His daily responsibilities include overseeing day-to-day finance activities such as sales and purchase invoices, payments, as well as month-end tasks. Martti also focuses on financial reporting and forecasting to support Aico’s growth on its strategic path. With a keen eye for detail and extensive
Kaisa has been the Head of People and Culture as well as Organisational Development at Aico since September 2016. She specialises in nurturing a positive company culture and overseeing organisational development. Additionally, she manages Aico’s Latvian and German legal entities. She believes in empowering individuals to develop their roles while providing support when needed, contributing to Aico's vibrant and supportive work environment.
Asif Muhammad is a highly experienced CMO with 20 years of global marketing experience in SaaS & technology. He has built and led global marketing teams through periods of intense expansion and has a successful track record in building brands and driving new customer acquisition programs.
Jon Craven is a highly experienced CRO with extensive experience in Cloud & SaaS solution across various enterprise markets and a strong track record of driving exceptional growth. Jon leads from the front to develop trusted relationships with customers and maximize account potential.
Johan Lindemann has been with Mercur for 25 years. He joined as an implementation specialist, but has worked in various roles prior to settling down as Chief Technology Officer. Johan is passionate about building great products and under his leadership the Mercur team has built a modern multi tenant cloud solution with a market leading performance.
Ola Henriksson has been with Mercur for 17 years, driving sustained and steep growth in professional services revenue.
Over the past 17 years at AARO, Richard has held roles including Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Marketing Manager, Head of Key Account Management, and Head of Sales Management Sweden. For the last 6 years, as COO, he has driven the development of IT & Compliance, Marketing, Product, Development & Testing, and Consulting, building strong teams across these areas.
Toby Davidson is a highly experienced Chief Product Officer, with strong domain experience in SaaS and in finance & cloud software, with Netsuite, SAP, and Proactis, and a very successful track record in high-growth environments. He brings clear strategic product vision and customer-centricity.
Anders Persson has excellent experience of driving transformation in his time as a consultant e.g. at Bain and as Head of Strategy and M&A at HiQ Group, where he worked on a number of M&A integrations and on many transformative strategic projects. Anders will focus on the strategic transformation topics where he can have the biggest impact.
Introducing Our Board Members
Meet the people supporting our commitment in excellence
To find out more about Maurice, click here.
To find out more about Phil, click here.
To find out more about Hansaka, click here.
To find out more about Juuri Partners, click here.
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