Born Carl Reinhold Adolf Bennet on 19 August 1951 in Helsingborg, he got educated at the University of Gothenburg, after which he started to work at Kockums finance department in Malmö in 1970. It was in 1989 that he founded his Carl Bennet AB, through which he now owns stakes in seven different companies active in a wide range of industries: medical products, biomedical research, printing, dental products, forestry and investing. As most bankable of those investments is the publicly traded Getinge Group, where apart from owning a large stake he has served as chairman since 1997. Mr. Bennet also serves as principal owner and chairman of Lifco and Elanders, and he is the chairman of the University of Gothenburg and a director of the listed companies Holmen and Lundberg.
