About

Håkan Broman was promoted to general counsel in January 2009 at NCC, a leading property development company in the Nordic Region with annual sales of SEK 57 billion. Heading a team of 50, Broman has been instrumental in transforming the legal department into a business supporting function, overcoming the internal challenge of changing mind-sets. Demonstrating the ability to be innovative, Broman achieved this partly by having a methodical recruiting approach and by finding the right business-related KPI to measure individual performance. The changes have had a positive knock-on effect; the department has been able to increase the business performance of the group and its share price. As Broman says ‘there is a clear correlation between our department and the increase in business’.