Firi
Country Manager
Jan 2026 to present
Leading Firi's digital asset and investment infrastructure business in Sweden.
Full-timeRemote
Authority expert profile
Fintech, payments and digital assets
Ted Scheiman
Ted works where banking, payments, fintech and digital assets meet. His career spans senior leadership, investment, strategy, board work and company building across the Nordic financial ecosystem.
USD per hour
Stockholm, Sweden
Current focus
Years across finance and technology
Nordic markets led at SWIFT
Current leadership and board roles
Founder exit
Profile
About Ted
Ted Scheiman is a financial services and technology executive with more than 25 years of experience. Today, he leads Firi in Sweden, serves on the board of Blockchain Sweden and chairs OneMoneyWay.
He previously led SWIFT across the Nordics and Baltics and headed fintech partnerships and investments at Swedbank. His background also includes trade finance, emerging markets, management consulting and an entrepreneurial exit with Boxgard.
Ted has lived and worked across Singapore, Frankfurt, Barcelona, New York, Hong Kong, London and Stockholm. That international perspective informs his work on market entry, commercial growth and strategic change.
Current leadership
Where Ted is working now
Blockchain Sweden
Board Member
Apr 2026 to present
Part-timeHybrid
OMW
OneMoneyWay
Chairman of the Board
Mar 2025 to present
Part-time
Selected impact
Career highlights
A career connecting established financial institutions, new technology and commercial execution.
Payments
Led SWIFT across the Nordic region
Led the Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland business, with work spanning CBDCs, payment interoperability and regional industry engagement.
Fintech
Led bank and fintech partnerships
Led fintech collaboration, investment and acquisition work at Swedbank, including portfolio companies such as Minna Technologies, Meniga, Katching and Asteria.
Entrepreneurship
Founded and exited Boxgard
Built a digital, urban self-storage service selected for STING FastForward in 2015, then sold his shares to investors in 2017.
Experience
Career timeline
Selected roles across financial services, technology, consulting and entrepreneurship.
- Dec 2024 to Dec 2025
Asteria AB
Strategic and Commercial Board Advisor
Contract
- Nov 2024 to May 2025
$SRC Ecosystem
CIO Investment Advisor
Contract
- Jan 2024 to May 2025
Mitigram
Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer
Full-time · Stockholm County, Sweden · On-site
Commercial and strategy leadership in trade finance technology.
- Jul 2021 to Jan 2024
SWIFT
Head of Nordics and Baltics
Led business development and regional delivery of SWIFT's vision for instant and frictionless payments. The role included CBDC discussions, platform interoperability, Nordic Payments Council participation and European stakeholder engagement.
- May 2012 to Jul 2021
Swedbank
Head of Partnership and Investment Unit, Fintech
Stockholm, Sweden
Led fintech collaboration, acquisition and portfolio growth, alongside digital banking strategy and projects including Swish, mobile wallets, peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding, digital receipts, APIs and data.
- Sep 2019 to Mar 2021
Asteria
Board Member
- 2013 to Mar 2017
Boxgard
Founder and CEO
Sweden
Founded a pay-as-you-go urban storage service with home collection and delivery. Boxgard joined STING FastForward in 2015; Ted sold his shares to investors in April 2017.
- Apr 2011 to Nov 2012
Deloitte
Management Consultant
- Jan 2008 to Apr 2011
J.P. Morgan
Investment Banking Business Manager, Emerging Markets
- Sep 2005 to 2007
Deloitte
Management Consultant
- Jan 2004 to Sep 2005
Nordic Financial Systems
Financial Consultant
- Feb 2001 to Oct 2003
Commerzbank Securities
Business Analyst
- Feb 2000 to Nov 2000
Siemens
Financial Analyst
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Listed rate: $400 USD per hour