Since September 2020, as Digitalisation Manager, Carolina leads the digitalization journey of Ingka – together with more than 165,000 co-workers - to make IKEA more affordable, accessible and people & planet positive. In her role, she is responsible for modernizing and embedding digital across IKEA, leading key strategic alignment and integration throughout the organization.

Carolina has a degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA. For the past 15 years, she has worked at IKEA, starting as Sales Manager in the IKEA Barakaldo Store in Spain, before moving to Sweden to work in the Global Sales Function in Helsingborg. She then returned to Spain as Store Manager in IKEA Malaga and led the opening of the IKEA Valencia store. Next, she moved on to become Deputy Retail Manager for the Czechia/Hungary/Slovakia region, followed by taking on the same role in IKEA Japan, and - in 2018 - moving to Poland, where she worked as Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer.