Before joining West Park, Joakim was the President and CEO of SAG Group GmbH. Previously he served as the President and CEO of Haldex AB (publ.), where he implemented numerous successful structural and operational value creation measures. Joakim also held several leadership positions at ABB, such as Group Senior Vice President, Head of Business Area Power Transformers at ABB Ltd and President and Country Manager of ABB Brazil Ltda. He is currently a board member of ELTEL AB (publ), Seves, Arvos and Dywidag.  He has previously sat on the boards of amongst other Ovako AB, Logstor and SEMCON AB (publ). Joakim holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.