Kinnevik AB announced that board member Rubin Ritter has been appointed as interim CEO of Kinnevik with immediate effect. Rubin Ritter will also continue to serve on the Kinnevik Board. The process to select a permanent new CEO has been underway since November and several candidates are being evaluated by the Board?s search committee.

Rubin Ritter was elected to the Kinnevik Board at the Annual General Meeting in May 2025. From 2010 to 2021, Rubin was co-CEO of Europe?s leading online fashion platform Zalando, which was a listed company and in which Kinnevik was a major owner before distributing the shares to its shareholders in 2021. Rubin is the owner and CEO of Talberg, his own investment and advisory company, which is based in Berlin.