About us

Your innovative technology partner in digital payments

Our story

It all began in 2009.

The founders of Payair Technologies identified an opportunity in the market for scalable digital products for banks and financial institutions.

We created and launched a mobile app – called “Payair” – that allowed consumers to shop directly with their mobile phones both online and in stores. At the same time, this app simplified payment process for merchants and made it faster.

The Payair application laid the foundation for our current product portfolio. 

Today Payair is a mature fintech company. We are an industry-leading provider of digital payment services across the Nordics.

So what is our super power? We are agile and extremely fast. We work closely with card schemes (Mastercard, VISA, and Amex) assisting issuers and acquirers to build innovative payment solutions.

Our vision is to facilitate a future where all payments are digital and secure.

We are an agile company, constantly evolving and always striving to offer our partners and customers the best products possible.

Payair is driven by finding the best digital payments solutions for banks and financial institutions to offer their customers easy and safe ways to pay. With our experienced team and deep fintech knowledge, we can be your partner for the future.
Sören Babra
CEO of Payair Technologies

Our Team

With a broad range of experiences in the payments sector and in creating start-ups all around the globe, our team is dedicated to taking Payair into the next era.

Sören Babra
CEO & Founder

Sören has many years experience from senior sales and marketing positions within the data and telecom sectors. Sören has extensive leadership experience amassed from senior sales and marketing positions within the data and telecom sectors, most recently as sales and marketing director of Street Media 7 AB, a start-up company in the mobile application business.

Erik is as a former economy and financial consultant who has built up extensive experience in the retail business as owner and manager. Erik holds a Master’s degree in finance from Uppsala University and completed Computer Science studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His entrepreneurial talents have seen him involved with several successful start-ups, mainly in the retail sector.

Maria has extensive knowledge and experience from the financial payments industry in both Sweden and the UK, with accountability for Nordic and International markets. Maria held a number of leadership positions at American Express, and as marketing director for the Nordic consumer business she managed business development, business transformation, product development and marketing for existing customers as well as operational risk for the legal entity. Maria has a wealth of experience in loyalty programmes and project management.

Sebastian has more than 11 years of experience from developing. During this time he has built up several payment platforms for companies in the financial payment industry such as Auriga, Svea Ekonomi and Payair. Sebastian has a degree of bachelor of science in engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Ville Hansson
CTO

Ville was part of the successful startup team of Ongame and is also a co-founder of the social gaming platform Spogg. Ville studied a Masters Program in Computer and Information Engineering between 1997-2001, before becoming a part of the successful startup team of Ongame.

The Board

The shareholders have entrusted the supervision and guidance of Payair to a board of highly motivated, C-level individuals representing a wealth of experience in the Financial Services Industry globally.

Ulf Rosberg
Chairman of the Board

Close to 20 years of experience from active ownership at one of the leading private equity firms – Nordic Capital. Ulf Rosberg is a Senior Advisor and partner at Nordic Capital. Previously, Mr. Rosberg has held positions in corporate finance at Enskilda Fondkommission and was a Partner at Leimdörfer Bernhardtson Westerberg & Partners. He serves as a Director at Mölnlycke Health Care, Bufab, Nefab AB since 2007. Ulf held the position as Director at Bult Finnveden AB and Ahlsell AB. Ulf holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a major in Finance from New York University, Stern School of Business in New York.

Lennart Schönning
Board Member & Founder

Lennart is an investor in among others real estate and wind power through his private company Property Dynamics AB and he has been CEO for several companies. Among his previously held positions, he was the CEO of the listed property company Näckebro AB (publ), Akademifogde at Uppsala University and CEO of Åke Larson Construction, Inc in Boston, USA. Lennart obtained his Master of Science from Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden and he graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Magnus Dahlbäck
Board Member

Magnus is an experienced strategist and driven business developer with a solid background from senior roles in several industries. He has held line positions as Director of Concept Strategy at Scandinavian Airlines, Director New Business and Partnerships at American Express and Group Business Manager at New Ventures, Tele2. Based on previous experience and several years as senior consultant he has gained deep understanding of the ongoing digital transformation and the mobile commerce arena within the financial industry as well as in retail. Magnus holds a Master of Science from Luleå University of Technology and is a graduate of the Economics program at Stockholm School of Economics.

Erik Markman
Board Member

Erik works with startups and scaleups mainly focusing on sustainability and tech. He is a board member at Ztorage, iHopa, Eligere AI and iPercept technologies and the vice chairman at Camfil AB. He holds a Master of Science from Chalmers University of Technology and a Master in Business Administration from IMD in Switzerland.

Sören Babra
CEO & Founder

Sören has many years experience from senior sales and marketing positions within the data and telecom sectors. Sören has extensive leadership experience amassed from senior sales and marketing positions within the data and telecom sectors, most recently as sales and marketing director of Street Media 7 AB, a start-up company in the mobile application business.

Job openings

Currently we are not actively recruiting.