Niculay Mylen

Nicolay Mylén is an Investment Professional at Ferd Capital, the direct-investment arm of Ferd AS — the wholly Andresen-family-owned investment company that is one of Norway's largest private holding groups. He studied economics, completing coursework at Lillehammer University College (2013) and the Cranfield School of Management in the UK (2014), before building his career on the investment side at Ferd.

Mylén began within Ferd Invest, the group's team investing in Nordic listed equities. According to Ferd's 2018 annual report, he moved over to Ferd Capital during the course of 2018, transitioning from public-market investing into Ferd's active-ownership private-equity practice. At the end of that year the Ferd Invest team was left with only Lars Christian Tvedt following Mylén's move.

At Ferd Capital he serves as the deal/portfolio lead for specific holdings, and is publicly listed as the responsible Investment Professional for Aibel (a leading engineering, construction, modification and maintenance service company for the oil, gas and offshore-wind industries) and Simployer (a Nordic HR technology and expertise provider). In that role he combines origination and transaction work with board-level, active ownership of portfolio companies — the model Ferd emphasizes given the family's long-term, patient capital.

• Invests through Ferd Capital, which takes long-term, active-ownership stakes rather than short-hold financial positions — enabled by the Andresen family's permanent capital and multi-year (often beyond conventional fund-life) horizon.
• Ownership approach: in private companies Ferd generally seeks a stake large enough to exercise real influence (commonly ~34%–100%); in listed companies it typically builds ~10–25% and seeks board representation.
• Check size: roughly NOK 500 million to NOK 3 billion of equity per investment — i.e., mid-to-large established businesses, not startups.
• Sectors: sector-agnostic but concentrated where Ferd has depth — industrials/energy services, B2B software and tech, healthcare and diagnostics, consumer and building-related businesses.
• What makes them say yes: a defensible market position in the Nordics, room for Ferd to add value as an active owner (M&A/buy-and-build, internationalization, operational scaling), and a management team that fits a long-horizon partnership. Mylén has publicly framed deals around scaling potential — e.g., noting the combined companies had significant potential to scale when Simployer expanded.