Ulf Johansson
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Who is Ulf Johansson?
Ulf J. Johansson is a Swedish national with a distinguished career in
communications technology. He is a founder and has been chairman of
Europolitan Vodafone AB, a GSM mobile telephone operator in Sweden,
since its start in 1990 until 2005. In 2005 Dr. Johansson was elected
to the Board of Directors of Telefon AB LM Ericsson (‘Ericsson’). He
has served as a Director of Trimble Navigation Ltd since 1999 and was
elected its Chairman in 2007 and he has served on the Board of
Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish pharmaceutical/life science
company from 1998 to 2005 when he left that position in order to take
up the assignments as chairman of Novo Nordisk Foundation and Novo A/S,
the private Danish investment company, parent company of the Novo Group
and e.g. the majority owner of Novo Nordisk A/S and Novozymes A/S. He
currently also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Acando
AB, an IT- and management consulting company and Eurostep Group AB, a
software- and consulting company specialized in product life cycle
management. From 1998 to 2003 Dr. Johansson served as Chairman of the
University Board of Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Earlier
positions included being president and chief executive officer of
Spectra-Physics, and executive vice president of Ericsson Radio Systems
AB. Dr. Johansson received a Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering, and a Doctor of Technology Degree (Communication Theory)
from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
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