Oscar Wallner
Stockholm, Sweden · oscar@interstice-advisory.com · interstice-advisory.com · LinkedIn
Founder · Orch (orch.build) 2025 – present · Stockholm
AI strategy and implementation for private equity and industrial companies.
- Embedded operator-partner engagements with PE investors, founders and senior executives — fund-level AI strategy through production systems inside operating companies.
- Engaged by a Nordic private equity firm as AI partner (from August 2026), following delivery of an investment-intelligence platform to the same group.
- Built and operate a governed autonomous AI development platform — the delivery engine behind every engagement (a tool, not a product).
- Delivered 15+ enterprise-grade systems across diligence intelligence, industrial feasibility, clinical-trial operations, supply-chain risk and commercial systems; validated by senior domain experts.
Founder & Principal · Oscar Wallner AB 2019 – present · Stockholm
- Strategic, commercial and capital advisory at executive and board level; private investments across AI, data infrastructure and industrial software.
Co-Founder, CCO & CFO · MTEK Industry AB 2019 – present · Stockholm · global
Industrial software (MES/MOM) for global manufacturing — zero to scale.
- Led commercial, financial and partnership strategy from zero to international scale; recognised by industry analysts as a global leader in its category. Customers in aerospace & defence, automotive and infrastructure equipment across Europe, North America and APAC.
- Raised $30M+ across equity, convertibles and debt from European and US institutional investors; CFO 2019–2021.
- Built the revenue architecture for long-cycle industrial buying; C-level partnerships with global hyperscalers, SIs and tier-one industrial groups.
Board Member & Investor · Norna AB 2019 – 2025 · Stockholm
- Early investor and board member, AI / Data-as-a-Service; led the Seed fundraising round.
Director, Corporate Banking · Citi 2011 – 2019 · Stockholm & New York
- P&L and balance-sheet responsibility for ~50% of Citi's Nordic corporate franchise across ~80 markets; multi-billion USD credit allocations; nine-figure revenue exposure; ~50% revenue growth on strategic accounts.
- Credit Officer with personal signing authority; banking coverage of Sweden's largest private-equity houses.
- EMEA IoT Lead · Nordic Digital Innovation Lead — strategic relationships across the Nordic startup ecosystem, including multiple unicorns.
Investment Officer · Swedfund International 2010 – 2011 · Stockholm
- Equity, debt and project-finance investments in emerging markets.
Analyst, Investment Banking · Lehman Brothers / Nomura 2007 – 2009 · London & Dubai
- Industrials and financial sponsors, Nordics and Middle East; structured products and cross-border financing through the GFC; top-5% performer; sovereign-wealth-fund stabilisation transactions.
Early career
Analyst, Halo Technology Holdings (USA) · Business Analyst, Electrolux Group (Argentina).
Education
Stockholm School of Economics — MSc Economics & Business, Finance · International Baccalaureate, Hvitfeldtska · Radley College, UK.
Military service
Sergeant, Swedish Amphibious Forces (2001–02) — Battalion Artillery Group Commander; indirect-fire coordination across army, amphibious, naval and air assets. Green Beret.
Languages: Swedish (native) · English (fluent/native) · Spanish (basic).