As an international company, we have an international staff and each of us brings our culture, experience and talents to Red Apple Apartments to make it a truly global company ready to serve customers all over the world. We currently have staff in four different countries and today we’d like to introduce you to our management team, located in Sweden.
Ragnar Saevarsson
Managing Director
ragnar@redappleapartments.com
Ragnar is co-founder of Red Apple Apartments. He holds Master’s degrees in Entrepreneurship and International Marketing & Brand Management from Lund University in Sweden. He held several management positions in sales and marketing before starting Red Apple Apartments. He is at home in the virtual world of the internet and has a keen eye for design. He speaks fluent English and has a good grasp of Danish and Swedish. Ragnar is well-traveled and places an importance on health, fitness and recreation in his life. He has two children and lives with his wife, Sesselía Birgisdóttir, in Lund, Sweden.
Sesselía Birgisdóttir
Marketing Director
sesselia@redappleapartments.com
Sesselía is co-founder of Red Apple Apartments. She has two Master’s degrees—International Marketing & Brand Management and Managing People, Knowledge & Change—from Lund University in Sweden. She worked for many years in the publishing industry in marketing and sales and brings her creative skills to Red Apple Apartments, where she also exercises her talents in public relations. She lives in Sweden with her husband, Ragnar Saevarsson, and has a daughter and stepson. She divides her time between work, family and travel—sometimes doing all three at once. She speaks fluent English and Icelandic and some Swedish and Faroese. She has made several attempts to learn Spanish and has sincere hopes to get it down one day.
Jennifer Pemberton
Communications Manager
jennifer@redappleapartments.com
Jennifer is from the United States and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing. She has taught writing and literature to university students in the U.S. and China and serves as our web editor and writer, among her many tasks at Red Apple. She has worked as an editor for university publications, a history magazine, and an expedition travel company. Her work as a travel writer has taken her to the Antarctic and Shanghai, where she worked on writing an online travel guide to China. She has recently moved to Sweden, where her husband is a Master’s student at Lund University. She is passionate about travel and the outdoors and is an avid camper and backpacker. She speaks English fluently and knows the language intimately. She also knows some basic Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and she can say hello and thank you in at least 15 other languages.
Lyazzat Salikova
Customer Relations Manager
lyazzat@redappleapartments.com
Lyazzat has a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship from Lund University in Sweden and her business ideas and customer relations skills are valued at Red Apple Apartments. Originally from Kazakhstan, her knowledge of the global community comes from working for the United Nations and several U.S. government development agencies. She has lived in the U.K., Germany and Indonesia and her passion for travel has taken her to over 30 other countries. She is fluent in Russian, English and Kazakh and picked up quite a bit of German. Her Russian enables her to understand many Slavic languages and she hopes to add Swedish to her list soon. She lives in Sweden and, when she’s not touring Europe on the back of her husband’s Harley, she enjoys the comforts of home—reading, cooking and relaxing.
