There is a stereotype that chief financial officers are suited, stodgy types who can spout numbers better than they can recall the winner of last year's Fifa World Cup. Peter Sjovall, CFO of Asian Bamboo, is not one of those executives.
In casual slacks, a button down and toting a back pack, he looks as if he would be more at ease in some hip outdoor supplier's office than in the Mandarin Oriental coffee shop discussing his recent multi-stop roadshow through Europe raising capital for Fuzhou, China-based bamboo producer Asian Bamboo. But raise money is exactly what Sjovall does and does well, since joining the company in June 2008 he has raised more...
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