Member of the Year Award

First given in 2000, this Award is presented annually at the Christmas Luncheon & Lucia Celebration to a member who has significantly contributed to the Chamber’s overall future growth and success.

Recipients include:

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  2011: Cathinka Wahlström Managing Partner, Accenture

  Cathinka Wahlstrom is the Managing Partner of Accenture’s New York Office.  She is also the Global Client Partner for one of the firm’s larger clients – a Fortune 20 company headquartered in New York City.
  
  Cathinka’s work focuses on supporting mergers and acquisitions, business change and transformational programs and technology initiatives.  She has built deep client relationships among capital markets, stock exchanges and banking clients.  She has worked extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia. 
  
  Cathinka was presented with the 2011 Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce “Member of the Year Award” for her generous contribution and longstanding support of the future growth and success of the Chamber. Cathinka was selected a board member in 2008 and elected a member of the Executive Committee in 2009. She is presently serving as Chairman of the Nominating Committee. Furthermore, she is a supporter of the Executive Women’s Conference and has spoken at several conferences.
  
   

   
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  2010: Haakan B. Anderson Guldkula Founder, TracTechnology AB

  Haakan B. Anderson Guldkula is the Founder of TracTechnology and a member of the SACC New York Board of Directors. Mr. Anderson Guldkula and SACC New York’s collaboration stretches back 25 years. His form of generosity has also made history at the Chamber – the three Haakan B. Anderson Guldkula Foundation Scholarships are the first-ever donated back to SACC New York by a previous scholar.
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  2009: Henrik Steinbrecher Senior Partner & Vice Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers Sweden

  Henrik Steinbrecher is Senior Partner & Vice Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Steinbrecher is specialised in the field of Corporate Finance and Real Estate. The clients he serves are international and domestic institutional and corporate investors in real estate and related infrastructure. He often works on assignments with both Government as well as Private sector clients concerning Transaction support, Due diligence, M&A Services, Valuations, and Business Transformation. PricewaterhouseCoopers has been a valuable and loyal member company for many years and was the generous host of our annual Board meeting in Stockholm in August.
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  2008: Michael L. Corbat CEO of Citi Holdings, Citi

  Michael Corbat, is the CEO of Citi Holdings, a major financial services company based in New York, where he oversees the global financial service company's brokerage and asset management, as well as local consumer finance and has been with the company since 1983. The Chairman of SACC New York, Tomas K.G. Ericson, presented the Member of the Year award to Michael Corbat December 9, 2008. Mr. Corbat, a SACC New York Board Member, has been an invaluable asset to the Chamber in his commitment to our Year of Going Green. Mr. Corbat's firm was a generous sponsor and host of the successful New York Green Summit.
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  2007: Staffan Lundbäck Senior Counsel, Nixon Peabody

  The Chairman of SACC New York, Tomas K.G. Ericson, presented the Member of the Year award to Staffan Lundbäck at the 2007 Christmas Luncheon. Mr. Lundbäck is a Senior Consel at the prestigious law firm, Nixon Peabody, and a longtime member of SACC New York's Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Mr. Lundbäck left Sweden in his youth for America. In accepting the award, he credited SACC New York as an organization that has allowed him to "reconnect with his roots" and establish a "home away from home" in New York.
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  2006: Steve Trygg Chairman, MastRock, Inc.

  Some members lend their support to our Chamber in a quiet and unassuming way. Steve Trygg is one such unsung hero. He is the only Swede in Wall Street Journal's prestigious "Advertising Hall of Fame".
  
  And his New York agency was ranked "5th hottest in the country" by Advertising age magazine. A legend, according to Swedish business daily Dagens Industri. He served on the Chamber's Board of Directors for almost twenty years, and has generously lent his agency's and his own creative talents to the Chamber time and time again. The man with the golden pen, or laptop rather.
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  2005: Tomas K.G. Ericson Former President & CEO, Volvo Group North America, Inc.

  The 2005 Member of the Year Award was presented to Tomas K.G. Ericson, Former President & CEO of Volvo Group North America, Inc. Mr. Ericson has been involved in the Chamber for over 30 years, and served as president of the Chamber between 1974 and 1984 and serves as Chairman of the Chamber since 2007. Mr. Ericson received the Member of the Year Award for his long and generous support.