About us

Our vision is to set a new standard in savings. A standard that’s smarter, cheaper and more transparent for you as a customer.

We are making it simpler to invest smarter

The financial industry has long lived well on being a little difficult, tricky and fancy.

Those who have been tasked with helping the customer make better decisions, have instead recommended expensive, often less good, products and received a great kick-back as a thank you. This has led to dissatisfied customers and eroded confidence in an old system. We think that’s good. Because trust has to be built on honesty and transparency, and sometimes the broken must be torn down in order for something better to be built up.

We are called Lysa, which is Swedish for illuminate.

We are here to do just that - light up an industry that has been in the shadows for far too long. We want to offer people a better way to save money, by investing in funds with low fees and wide spread of risk. Sounds exciting? No. And you are absolutely right. Setting up a savings plan and sticking to it without letting the emotions or daily headlines dictate, is neither exciting nor fun. But according to research, data and Nobel Prize-winning economists, it's one of the smartest things you can do.

We want to help more people make better financial decisions.

By eliminating conflicts of interest and using new technology, we can offer you a smarter, simpler and cheaper way to save. We continuously monitor, rebalance and improve your portfolio and ensure that your money is given the best possible conditions to grow over time, so that you can have more time for something else (much more important here in life) than market news, fund choices and interest rate curves. Lysa makes it is easy to save the right way.

Interested in the details?

Do you want to dive deeper into the details of the research we have based Lysa upon? Feel free to read our whitepaper.

Read our whitepaper

Our founders

Patrik Adamson

Patrik Adamson

CEO

Patrik was educated at the Stockholm School of Economics and his professional experience includes Nordstjernan, GMT Communications Partners and Merrill Lynch.

Emilie Andersson

Emilie Andersson

Chief Strategy Officer

Emilie was previously a lawyer at Mannheimer Swartling's banking and finance group. Emilie holds a law degree from Uppsala University.

Henrik Littecke

Henrik Littecke

Co-founder

Henrik previously worked as a senior developer and IT architect at Sweden's largest online bank Avanza with additional experience from Ericsson. He was educated at Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Board of directors

Ingrid Lindquist

Ingrid Lindquist

Chairman of the board

Ingrid was previously Chairman of the Board for Avanza Fonder where she launched the no-cost fund Avanza Zero. She has also been CEO of Öhman Fonder and product manager at SBAB. Ingrid sits on the boards of Länsförsäkringar Stockholm and Kavat Vård.

Bo Becker

Bo Becker

Board member

Bo is a professor of financial economics at Stockholm School of Economics. Prior to that, Bo was active at Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago. Bo has also served on board of the Swedish National Debt Office.

Ronnie Bodinger

Ronnie Bodinger

Board member

Ronnie has extensive experience, serving as CTO at online banks Nordnet and Avanza for approximately 20 years in total. He has also been CIO at MTG and Cabonline.

Patrik Adamson

Patrik Adamson

CEO

Patrik was educated at the Stockholm School of Economics and his professional experience includes Nordstjernan, GMT Communications Partners and Merrill Lynch.

Emilie Andersson

Emilie Andersson

COO

Emilie was previously a lawyer at Mannheimer Swartling's banking and finance group. Emilie holds a law degree from Uppsala University.

Kristina Brandt

Kristina Brandt

Board member

Kristina has a strong background in business management and is currently the CFO of Neudi & Co. Kristina was educated at the Gothenburg School of Economics.