Background

I am a Swedish entrepreneur and independent adviser in general management, sales, marketing, branding, business development, M&A. My speciality is helping companies to improve their business by leveraging new technology, and my focus since 2010 is Internet of Things and the Digital Transformation it enables. I founded the IoT blog connectcompute.com in November 2011, initiated the alliance for Swedish IoT entrepreneurs, SMSE, in March 2012 and was nominated for the Mobile Initiative of the year award ”Guldmobilen” 2013. 2014 I co-founded the Deeptech hub THINGS, where we focus on how to transform innovation in small companies to massive value creation in large companies. I have 40 years of international ICT industry experience, including executive positions with High Mobility, Stream Analyze, MTEK, IBM, Apple, 3Com, BrainHeart Capital, Springworks, 7Signals and B3IT, and board experience from companies including THINGS, Joman Robotics, Gemit, April System Design, Evothings, Mobile Institute, Square Publishing, Possio, Clue, La Yin, Calazo, Edgeware, Radionet Oy, Åkerströms, Service Factory and Excilan. I am advisor to management in small and large organisations, primarily around Digital Transformation and eco-systems. I am co-founder of THINGS, Joman Robotics, BrainHeart Capital, a VC devoted to wireless technologies, Brandbuilders of Sweden, B3 Connect Compute and the advertising agency Second Opinion. At 3Com I held several senior executive positions including Marketing Director Europe, Network Service Provider Director EMEA and New Business Development Director EMEA. During my years at Apple I held a number of executive positions including Country Manager Finland, Director Service & Support Nordic and Channel Strategy Director EMEA. I am a frequent speaker at international industry events, has spent a lot of time with China and was the author of the BrainHeart Wi-Fi Chronicle 2001-2005. I started The Internet of Everything Chronicle in August 2013 and have written ”What decisions makers need to know about M2M aka Internet of Things”