Working with UN Habitat, Viable Cities, Nesta Challenges, Energimyndigheten, and the Swedish eco-system of: startups, incubators, accelerators and science parks. Responsible for challenge design and reach-out, scouting of startups, selection- and consortia creation process with four international cities on three continents.

Growing the innovation project office at the Sahlgrenska science park Open Arena. Responsible for projects, personal and budget. 12 month impact: Four new projects, 8MSek in external funding, 15+ organisations in project activities. Member of leadership team. Reporting to CEO.

Managing open innovation at Essity. Driving strategy and executions securing external opportunities to blend with Essity internal capabilities. Responsible for startup scouting programs, crowd sourcing initiatives, external and internal idea management. Working tightly together with Essity´s five different business categories on multinational OI-projects from discovery to M&A due-diligence. Appreciated frequent presenter, facilitator and trainer inside and outside of Essity. Responsible for… Show more Managing open innovation at Essity. Driving strategy and executions securing external opportunities to blend with Essity internal capabilities. Responsible for startup scouting programs, crowd sourcing initiatives, external and internal idea management. Working tightly together with Essity´s five different business categories on multinational OI-projects from discovery to M&A due-diligence. Appreciated frequent presenter, facilitator and trainer inside and outside of Essity. Responsible for Essity management team trainings on Innovation tactics, decision making, and creativity, having 1000+ participants accumulated. Bringing future to Essity through strategic partnerships with external entities. Show less

Managing cross category task force defining operation model and org. structure for Essity open innovation. Build success case screening 500+ startups identifying five candidates for acquisition. Reporting to Vice President Intellectual Property.

Responsible for SCA global demand driven idea management. Driving front-end innovation actions with business categories. Identify innovation opportunities and facilitation of idea generation workshops. Process- and tool- ownership and chairman of idea evaluation committees . Reporting to Vice President Science and Innovation. Position combined with doctoral studies.

Define, develop and deploy new global demand driven idea management, radically improving idea efficiency and -implementation rate. Way of working thereafter inspired Volvo Cars, Sandvik and Inventia. Reporting to RnD Director. Position combined with doctoral studies.

Driving early development of intimate care products for the heavy incontinence segment at the TENA brand. Leading product developer in medical device project in its clinical trail phase. Two patents granted and 1 patent pending.

Team leader consultant at Lear Corporation, situated at Volvo cars. Responsible for processes and prioritizations of 8 persons team working with cable harnesses for the Volvo V50 platform.

Project leader of brand strategic development project with 15 persons global team (Italy, Sweden and China). Front-end development engineer responsible for premium features e.g. radically innovative illumination shelves (later adopted by Miele). Two patents granted.