The Board

Jan Tufvesson

Jan Tufvesson Chairman of the Board
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm). He started his career at the Royal Swedish Air Force and then moved on to Ericsson. Jan has always worked with research and development of advanced electronics and been responsible for partnerships with important suppliers. After leaving Ericsson 1998 he has worked as a consultant in company management. He has been chairman of two international companies, which during his leadership became public.

Mikael Östling

Mikael Östling
Co-founder and professor of solid state electronics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Since December 2004 he is appointed Dean of the School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH. In 2009 he received the first European Research Council award for advanced investigator grant. Mikaels research interests are silicon/silicon germanium devices and process technology for very high frequency, as well as device technology for silicon carbide and nitride based semiconductors for power applications. He has supervised 26 PhD theses work, and been the author of 9 book chapters and about 380 scientific papers published in international journals and conferences. He is an editor of the IEEE Electron Device Letters and a fellow of the IEEE.

Göran Linder

Göran Linder , Midroc New Technology AB
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering 1987. MD of the venture capital company Midroc New Technology AB. Board member of numerous ground-breaking portfolio companies. Göran has more then 20 years of diversified sales, business development and management experience, with extensive knowledge of technology-related fields. A versatile, dedicated leader and innovator, with a record of success building highly motivated and productive teams. Proven ability to grow start-ups and to leverage business synergies through merges, also in order to go public.

Tobias Elmquist

Tobias Elmquist, Volvo Technology Transfer AB
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers Universty of Technology in Gothenburg. Tobias is Investment Manager in Volvo's Corporate Venture Capital division. Tobias has a background from the private equity and venture capital business and worked as a management consultant before joining VTT.

Stefan Jakelius

Stefan Jakelius, Industrifonden
Master of Science from Chalmers University of Technology, Executive Master of Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics and studies in Communication and Journalism at Stockholm University. Stefan is Investment Manager at Industrifonden and has 15 years of professional experience from the energy industry and has background from running his own company, international consultancy as well as governmental affairs.