- Geely Sweden CEO Per Ansgar joins Concordium Foundation board.
- Concordium expands focus on verified AI agents and digital payments.
- Geely and Concordium deepen partnership on autonomous transactions.
Concordium Foundation has appointed Per Ansgar, chief executive officer of Geely Sweden Holdings AB, to its board, strengthening the blockchain platform’s relationship with the Geely group as it develops infrastructure for verified digital interactions and autonomous AI agents.
The appointment adds more than 26 years of automotive and financial experience to Concordium’s board.
Ansgar has held senior roles at Volvo Cars, Polestar and companies within the wider Geely group.
His appointment also extends a partnership between Concordium and Geely that began in 2021.
Concordium and Geely deepen five-year partnership
The relationship between Concordium and Geely began with a shared focus on autonomous driving and was formalised in 2022 through a joint venture based in Wuxi, China.
The partnership has also explored applications in which vehicles can interact directly with infrastructure and service providers through machine-initiated payments.
These applications include connected vehicles potentially settling charging, toll, and service payments without direct intervention from a driver.
Concordium is now expanding its focus toward infrastructure for verified digital interactions, including transactions involving AI agents.
As software becomes capable of initiating transactions independently, the company is developing systems intended to establish who owns and authorises an AI agent and who is accountable for its actions.
Ansgar said vehicles and the software embedded in them are increasingly becoming parties to transactions.
He added that trust now requires proof of who authorised a payment and who is responsible for it, describing this as the problem Concordium is addressing.
Ansgar brings automotive and financial experience
Ansgar has been CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings since November 2024, having previously served as the company’s chief financial officer.
Before joining Geely Sweden Holdings, he spent 26 years at Volvo Cars, where he held positions including deputy CFO and CFO of Volvo Cars China.
He later became chief financial officer of Polestar. Ansgar also holds board positions across the Geely group and serves on the nomination committee of Volvo Car AB.
His appointment brings senior Geely leadership into Concordium’s governance as the company works on infrastructure that connects verified humans and AI agents to transactions.
The Concordium Foundation Board is chaired by founder Lars Seier Christensen.
Other members include Ueli Maurer, professor of cryptography at ETH Zurich; Swiss commercial lawyer Simone Monnerat; and digital executive Nibras Stiebar-Bang.
Concordium expands AI agent infrastructure
Concordium’s focus is increasingly centered on establishing verifiable identities for AI agents that can act autonomously.
The company says its infrastructure is designed to allow counterparties to verify that an agent has been authorised by a verified human or organisation.
Its Agent Registry went live in May 2026 and has since registered more than 1,600 AI agents, according to the company. Each registered agent is linked to a verified owner and receives a Verified by Concordium Badge.
The badge can be used across networks including Ethereum and Solana, allowing AI agents to provide information about their owners without exposing the underlying company documents.
Concordium describes itself as an AI infrastructure platform for the agentic economy, built on a regulatory-grade blockchain with identity and trust incorporated into its protocol.
Ansgar’s appointment therefore comes as Concordium seeks to extend its earlier automotive-focused relationship with Geely into a broader model in which vehicles, software and AI agents can conduct transactions while remaining connected to identifiable and accountable owners.
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