Ulf Ewaldsson

Biography

Ulf Ewaldsson is Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Digital Services since April 1, 2017. He has held various positions, most recently Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Strategy and Technology (September 2016 – March 2017). Prior to this, Ewaldsson was Chief Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Technology at Ericsson between 2012 and September 19, 2016. He is involved in the European strategic work regarding ICT and Telecom taking part in the European Cloud Partnership Steering Board and the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP SCC) headed by the European Commission in Brussels. Because he is able to describe complex technology and industry evolution in simple, everyday terms, he has been a popular speaker at events such as Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 – Germany (with Angela Merkel), World Economic Forum, Mobile World Congress in both Barcelona and Shanghai, and Broadband World Forum. Ewaldsson was Head of Product Area Radio at Ericsson Business Unit Networks from 2007 until 2012. In that position, he was instrumental in helping create some of the products that reflect Ericsson’s technology leadership, such as HSPA and LTE in the radio access network, the multi-standard RBS 6000, and the antenna-integrated radio unit. He has more than 20 years of experience in product management, industry development and customer relations, which has taken him to leadership positions at Ericsson in China, Japan, Hungary and Sweden. He is a board member of Assa Abloy, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and TM Forum. Ewaldsson was born in Skåne in Sweden in 1965. He graduated with an MSc in Engineering and Business Management from Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Research Interest

 Business Management