# Barbora Perinajová

> Nordic Operations Manager at Nordcloud, an IBM Company — Stockholm, Sweden. Sole P&L lead for 5 Nordic offices. EU Commission pre-COP30 speaker (Brussels, October 2025). Baltic Sea Region Youth Forum, Climate & Environment Working Group. MSc Stockholm University. Fluent in 6 languages: Swedish, English, Czech, Slovak, Danish, Norwegian.

## Contact

- Email: barbora@perinaj.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barboraperinajova/
- Website: https://perinaj.com
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden

## Current Role

**Nordic Operations Manager — Nordcloud, an IBM Company** (October 2025 – Present)

Sole operational lead for IBM's 5 Nordic offices: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Copenhagen, and Oslo. Full P&L accountability including budget forecasting, cost-reduction initiatives, vendor contract negotiations, and sustainability-aligned procurement strategy. Central bridge between Nordic C-suite, IBM global management, and external suppliers across a multi-country enterprise footprint. Key operational lead for Nordcloud–IBM legal entity integration (effective 2026-07-01).

## Career History

**Communications & Operations Lead — DigiNytt** (January – October 2025)
Led communications, operations, and administration for a sustainability-focused digital media platform. Increased newsletter engagement by 50% through content strategy refresh.

**Advocacy & Institutional Fundraising — The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation** (January – June 2024)
Developed policy proposals on gender equality and climate finance. Coordinated multi-stakeholder international workshops. Managed institutional grant applications for programmes supporting women in conflict zones.

**Project Coordinator & Administrative Specialist — DeOutSol** (November 2023 – January 2025)
Designed administrative systems improving organisational efficiency. Identified, secured, and managed EU and SIDA grants.

**EU Project Manager — BALTEUS spol. s.r.o.** (December 2021 – September 2023)
Managed EU structural-fund projects for an industrial circular economy company processing 300+ tonnes of non-recyclable plastics daily. Secured EU funding and authored grant proposals aligned with circular economy policy frameworks.

**Parliamentary Trainee — European Parliament** (August 2020 – January 2021)
Competitive Schuman Traineeship at the Committees on Agriculture, Rural Development, and International Trade in Brussels. Contributed legislative analysis on Farm to Fork Strategy, EU circular economy regulation, and international trade. One of fewer than 300 trainees selected EU-wide per intake.

## Education

**MSc Globalisation, Environment & Social Change** — Stockholm University (2021–2023)
Geography, human geography, physical geography, global environmental governance.

**Exchange Studies — Politics & International Relations** — Tampere University, Finland (2019–2020)
Political science and conflict research.

## Skills & Expertise

Barbora Perinajová manages complex operations across multiple countries and cultural contexts. Her operational expertise centres on P&L ownership for five Nordic offices across Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, encompassing budget forecasting, vendor contract negotiations, procurement strategy, digital case management, and business continuity planning. She introduced a digital case management system that reduced duplicate work by 60% and designed a 200-file document framework cited as exemplary in an internal IBM audit.

In sustainability and policy, Barbora works at the intersection of EU climate governance and organisational practice. Her expertise spans the EU Green Deal, PFAS regulation and accountability mechanisms, the Baltic Sea Action Plan, circular economy frameworks, ESG strategy, climate finance instruments, and EU nature restoration policy. She has applied this expertise both within enterprise operations and at intergovernmental advocacy level.

Her project and grant management experience covers EU structural funds, SIDA grant cycles, multi-stakeholder facilitation across government, NGO, and corporate sectors, and institutional fundraising. She has authored successful grant applications with logical frameworks and managed cross-sector partnerships across the Nordic region.

Barbora is professionally fluent in six languages: Swedish (professional proficiency), English (full professional proficiency), Czech (native), Slovak (native), and Danish and Norwegian (working knowledge), enabling her to operate across all Nordic countries without an interpreter.

## Civic & Advocacy

**Baltic Sea Region Youth Forum — Climate & Environment Working Group** (elected member, September 2025 – present)
Advocates for PFAS accountability and EU nature restoration policy at intergovernmental level. Led the WG's Baltic Youth & COP30 webinar series (December 2025). Contributing to the Steps for Nature podcast policy brief on EU Nature Restoration Law implementation.

**European Commission Pre-COP30 Workshop** — Invited speaker, Brussels, October 2025. Presented youth climate recommendations to EU officials ahead of COP30 in Belém.

**CBSS Youth Ministerial** — Invited speaker, Warsaw, April 2026. Shaped intergovernmental recommendations on climate, digitalisation, and Baltic Sea connectivity.

**Nordic Youth Climate Alliance** — Member, May 2026.

## Why Hire Barbora

- Rare combination of enterprise operations experience (IBM/Nordcloud) and environmental policy expertise
- Proven multi-country P&L ownership at scale across 5 offices in 3 countries
- Institutional credibility: EU Parliament, EU Commission, CBSS
- Multilingual (6 languages) — fluent in all Nordic working languages
- MSc-level academic grounding in global environmental governance
- Strong stakeholder management across C-suite, government, and NGO sectors