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Plano, Tx, Us

Kaarina, Southwest Finland, Fi

Teleste offers an integrated product and service portfolio that makes it possible to build and run a better networked society. Our solutions bring television and broadband services to you, secure your safety in public places, and guide your use of public transport. With solid industry experience and drive for innovations, we are a leading international company in broadband, security and information technologies and related services. We connect with our customers through a global network of offices and partners.

Gdynia, Select..., Pl

Falcon V Systems is an innovative software development company providing solutions for an open, disaggregated & converged access architecture with deployments and customers globally.Took over EU based telecom tech startup with mainly engineering competencies. The company has two American, and one European investor.Reorganized, hired and coached executive team. Restructured engineering, product management, sales and support processes.Secured initial funding round to provide an 18-month runway. Developed new business plan, targeting operators globally, approved by board and key ecosystem players. Established anchor customer engagements globally and key customer relationships including C level.Incorporated and established a complete US subsidiary for US based employees utilizing leading outsourcing service providers.Developed and launched new product portfolio at SCTE October 2023, entered customer labs in January 2024, and took company to first revenue in May 2024.Falcon V Systems was acquired by Vecima Networks in October 2024.

MobiledgeX was a Silicon Valley startup focusing on building a global telco edge cloud platform aggregating edge assets for developer and ISV workloads for both consumer and enterprise use cases. The company was founded by Deutsche Telekom in 2018 and mainly owned by Mobile Network Operators (MNO) globally. MobiledgeX was acquired by Google in Q2 of 2022. As Chief Revenue Officer targeting MNOs as customers globally, reported to the CEO. Closed revenue generating deals in every region in every major advanced market globally with the goal to establish a break-in foot hold for additional growth.Built relationships across MNO strategy, innovation, network, operations - organizations from engineering to C level. Created a community of 50+ mainly tier 1 operators in each market. Managed joint engagements with leading infrastructure, cloud and virtualization vendors. Selected by GSMA to create and implement the Operator Telco Edge Cloud vision. See GSMA press release: https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/telecom-operators-collaborate-to-build-the-telco-edge-cloud-platform-with-gsma-support/Hired and led a global sales team of business developers, solution architects, program managers and marketing professionals for operator and GSMA engagements.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Head of Network Functions Sales for Ericsson’s largest account AT&T, focused on all network based solutions and services including TV & Media (U-verse). General Manager and P&L responsibility including sales strategy, account planning, presales, sales execution, delivery, operations and customer support. Annual size of business, USD 350M. Consistently exceeded annual sales targets. Established and led sales and operations teams headed up by Directors and VP's, spread out across the US at various customer locations. Exceptional internal employee satisfaction survey scores despite extremely challenging business transformation with customer. Several team members recognized as regional and global Ericsson top talent.Responsible for the majority of Ericsson’s new technology break-in sales efforts at “the tip of the spear” targeting AT&T’s Domain 2.0 technology & operational transformation (NFV, SDN, etc) while championing said efforts internally within Ericsson.Exceptional customer relationships up to, and including Officer level at AT&T. References by request.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

As Head of the Communication Services Engagement Practice for Region North America, established teams of business developers and solution managers to drive sales within the portfolio for all Ericsson's customers in the region.By successfully leading multiple engagements, team was recognized as best in class for Ericsson’s cross functional engagement model. Consistently leading utilization rate among peer groups. Participated on behalf of Ericsson in industry events on panels, analyst briefings and interviews.Created business plans and sales strategies for business area within region and successfully executed the plan by winning the targeted key deals for 2011. Annual sales, USD 700M for the region.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Established the CenturyLink (CenturyTel) account for Ericsson from ground up starting with cold calling. Within 9 months Ericsson had gone from having no relationships and no business opportunities with the customer, to being short listed and selected for trials for all major opportunities (access, core, wireless). Established strong relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers including C level and maintained them throughout the acquisition of EMBARQ and formation of CenturyLink.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Established a new business area for Ericsson targeting mobile multimedia and next generation mobile internet applications with major internet companies like Google, AOL, Microsoft, EBay, Yahoo etc as targets. Created Ericsson’s global business plan, go-to-market plan and strategy for establishing new business within above mentioned area. Secured internal funding and sponsored new product development in line with the plan. Demonstrations of the new product offerings were held at 3GSM and CTIA in 2007. Received patent for business plan and technology.Launched joint projects with leading internet companies, major tier one global wireless operators and Ericsson. Sold wireless lab system to leading Internet Company.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Established the partnering business for Ericsson North America and grew partneringrevenue from zero to USD 85M in two years. Hired and managed a team of partnership &alliance managers, responsible for partnering business in the US and Canada.Consistently exceeded revenue goal since inception of team. Responsible for partneringrelated processes, policies and coaching of team members.Evaluated, developed, established and managed multi-million dollar revenue generatingstrategic alliances and partnerships. Responsible for both business and technologypartnerships with a wide range of companies from leading Fortune 500 companies likeCisco, Microsoft, Juniper, HP etc to midsize and smaller companies to emerging start-upcompanies.Created, negotiated and executed various legal agreements on behalf of Ericsson. Forexample; non-disclosure, MOU, LOI, teaming, licensing, distribution, reselling, OEM,service level, subcontracting, joint marketing & sales, and sales agency.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Established and led Ericsson’s first IP Multi Media (IMS) program with an annual budget ofUSD 30 million.In addition to responsibility of complete R&D of the solution, the program was alsoresponsible for pre-commercial trial strategies and product positioning, technical marketingof demos, trials and other pre-commercial engagements with selected strategic keycustomers (e.g. Vodafone, China Telecom, Hutchison and Telecom Italia Mobile).Ulf Andersson – June 2015Responsible for establishing node development projects and operations in 10 countriesand sites worldwide with over 400 engineers working on various parts of the overallsolution.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Established and led a department in the R&D division with 60 engineers and a budget ofUSD 10 million. Projects in the areas of IP Telephony, ATM, and ISDN. Sponsored andorganized industry event; “the 3rd SIP Bake-off” (SIP interoperability).Technology and solution management of R&D subprojects in the US. Technical coordinationin global development projects. Responsible for support and maintenance ofcommercial products.Rotational assignment to local start-up (tti, telecom technologies inc) responsible forproduct market entry strategies.

Mba, Telecom Management

Bsc, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science