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Europe, SE

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

As promoted to President & COO I now managed the core business from a P&L perspective (90%), incorporated the operator division, and acted as COO for Sinch group. Focus continued to be driving organic growth (existing and expanding portfolio), integrate acquired companies, people and assets. We established strategic account management with +300% growth in.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

With the last 3 major Sinch acquisitions in late 2021, adding 56% of 2021 pro formagross profit, there was a need to reorganize into 4 independent P&L divisions. SinchOperating units prior to Q421 was merged into BU Enterprise & Messaging that I wasasked to lead. 3 main objectives were given; create a well cross functional full P&L unit,change negative.

Stockholm, Stockholm, SE

As progress was quickly recognised and trust built with co-founders, I was asked to take on full responsibility for the enterprise division (95% of company) incl operations, engineering, product management and acquired companies, Sinch, Unwire and Vehicle. During 2H18 financial turnaround from 20172H was seen, market cap doubled as organic growth had gone.

Stockholm, Stockholm, SE

I joined a 300 people co-founder lead company as first ever COO incl sales, marketing, operator relationships that during 2017 struggled with network quality, integration workload, no growth, weak structure for size. Structure, focus, leadership and governance was brought in, quality and growth focus were brought back incl “saving” largest new US customer.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

I was asked to also take responsibilities for IP and User Data Management portfolio and product mgrs. creating complete telecom core unit, 2nd largest Ericsson area. 2016 was a challenging year from a market perspective, but with continued R&D efficiency programs, we reduced cost, scored high on employee motivation, reversed market share trend selectively.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

I took on 125 strategic product managers with a +4BSEK R&D budget with products in various life cycle phases. We got CEO approval for IMS turnaround program, establishing leading VoLTE position and OEM partnerships with Appel, Samsung, Microsoft, & Cisco. IoT SaaS connectivity got revamped and grew 500%. We strengthened business focus in product mgmt..

Ericsson had lost the Nordic market to Huawei, relationship was at an all-time low and I was appointed by CEO to reverse trend. New business won in areas of IP, TV, Managed Services, OSS and BSS, broke into Thailand, India and Myanmar. Initiated and supported Telenor Connexion M2M platform acquisition that turned into Ericsson’s first multitenant SaaS.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

Family reasons brought us back to Sweden and under Bert Nordberg’s leadership, we implemented a global account management structure of Ericsson’s 8 largest accounts, replicating the model used towards Vodafone. I became chairman of our 8 global accounts, and board member of Ericsson’s 6 Market Units in Europe.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

Group CEO Svanberg asked me to lead the turn-around of Ericsson’s largest account, as the relationship had deteriorated, and become part of group mgmt team. It took 9 months to turn around situation with focus on operational performance, relationship building, increasing team motivation, and strategic executive engagement. The following 2 years were spent.

I lead negotiations of Ericsson’s largest ever GSM contract for 18 months. After signing I became account GM and deployment responsible, lead 225 people incl sales, technical sales, finance, HR, operations plus 300 deployment cntractos across US. We grew the account 65%, gained market share through performance, and secured first SaaS win.

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

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Board Member Certification Program