EDUCATION

1986-1992 Master of Science in Engineering Physics at Uppsala University, focus program on computer science, radiation physics and automatic control engineering.

1986 High school graduation, Natural science program, mean grade: 4.5, Vasaskolan, Gävle.

CAREER

Present Consultant at Murlang AB, part-time employment at Pharmacolog AB

2015- Technological adviser, Kontigo Care, Uppsala, Sweden

Completed a project to build a working prototype for a ketone breath analyzer. Assisted in mass production issues related to their alcohol breathalyzer.

2014- Chief Technology Officer, Pharmacolog, Uppsala, Sweden

Responsible for all R&D activities at this med-tech startup active within IV drug administration technologies.

2014- CEO, Murlang, Uppsala, Sweden

Started my own business, initially focused on consulting within med-tech, Internet of Things and big data.

2014-2015 Chief Technology Officer, Aerocrine, Solna, Sweden

Member of the international executive leadership team of Aerocrine. Working with strategic outlook on trends related to personalized medicine, home care, Internet of Things and biosensor technologies. Building world-leading nitric oxide sensing instruments for improving asthma management. Specifically, leading a private preview program collaboration with Microsoft Redmond as one of only three companies world-wide to test the new MS Azure Stream Analytics software, successfully ended with a key-note presentation at TechEd Europe as well as at TeliaSonera’s M2M Symposium.

2013-2014 Senior Director of Technical Product Development, Aerocrine, Solna, Sweden

First job outside radiation therapy, but still in med tech. Head-hunted to take on the senior role of all technical development at Aerocrine, which builds world-leading nitric oxide sensing instruments for improving asthma management. First task was to optimize internal resource utilization (only five engineers in-house) by introducing the agile methodology in s/w, h/w and mechanical development. Other big tasks included collaborations with development partners (Panasonic Healthcare, FILT, IT Gambert, KTH) and IP portfolio management (>150 patents in various stages).

2008-2013 Director of Development, RaySearch Laboratories, Stockholm, Sweden

Grew the development department from 18 to 62 developers. Worked closely with the CEO to build RaySearch’ world-wide sales and service initiatives, including offices in USA and Europe and distributors in rest of the world.

2007-2008 Product Director, RaySearch Laboratories, Stockholm, Sweden

Acted as a product manager for all RaySearch products with all six partner companies. Started up the product development of RayStation – RaySearch’ own treatment planning system.

2004-2007 Director of Marketing, Development Manager and Quality Manager, RaySearch Laboratories, Stockholm, Sweden

Moved to the competing company RaySearch, a publicly traded spinoff startup from the Karolinska Institute. As RaySearch at the time was a B2B company taking on software outsourcing tasks within radiation therapy from major med tech players such as Philips and Siemens, my job was threefold: find and contract new partner companies, lead half of the development staff and build up the quality system, including certification to the ISO 13485 standard and 510(k) applications to the FDA.

2003-2004 Lead System Designer, Nucletron Scandinavi (today Elekta), Uppsala, Sweden and Veenendaal, The Netherlands

The business unit was aquired by a Dutch med tech company and I spent my last year within the Helax era as the lead system designer.

2002-2003 Development Manager, MDS Nordion, Uppsala, Sweden and Ottawa, Canada

Took over the management role for all staff in Uppsala, Ottawa and Bratislava for the entire product line of the treatment planning business unit.

2001-2002 Project Manager, MDS Nordion, Uppsala, Sweden and Bratislava, Slovakia

A new generation of Windows-based treatment planning software was to be developed and I headed a project with a team in Slovakia for 3D anatomical modeling.

1999-2001 Project Manager, MDS Nordion, Uppsala, Sweden

Helax was aquired by a Canadian life science company and I returned to Sweden to lead the development of the main product.

1997-1998 Office Manager and Sales Specialist, Helax Inc, Benicia, California, USA

When Helax was going to expand into North America, I migrated with my family to the Bay Area, hired five staff and travelled both the American continents trying to make existing customers happy and sell new systems. Two very exciting years, both professionally and privately.

1996-1997 Senior Product Specialist, Helax AB, Uppsala, Sweden

With my combined experienced of both development and service for the company’s only product, I became the “go-to guy” for difficult accounts world-wide.

1995-1996 Product Support Manager, Helax AB, Uppsala, Sweden

My first position as manager. The job was to build up product support and service for the European customers (hospitals). Hired my first staff, mainly in Uppsala but also in Germany and the UK.

1993-1994 System Developer and Quality System Coordinator, Helax AB, Uppsala, Sweden

My first full-time employment. Junior programmer of mainly algorithms within the radiation treatment planning system of Helax. In 1994 I received quality systems training and coordinated the work to make Helax ISO 9000 compliant.

1992-1992 Physics Support, Helax AB, Uppsala, Sweden

At the end of my studies, I got a job doing data processing for Helax’ European customers.

1991-1991 Accelerator Engineer, Akademiska University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Worked with accelerator maintenance and measurements part-time during the last year of my M.Sc. education.

1990-1990 Civil service as Medical Physicist, Akademiska University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

The starting point for my med tech career. Learned how radiation therapy works and set a goal to get a job within medical physics.

SKILLS

Languages: Fully fluent in English and Swedish

Programming: C, C++, C#, Fortran, Python, PHP, Java, SQL

System design: SCRUM and other agile techniques, RUP, Microsoft ALM systems

Quality systems: ISO 13485, MDD, QSR, GMP, ISO 14971, medical device applications to the FDA, Health Canada, SFDA, KFDA, PMDA

Service and support: 1st line to end users in hospitals, 2nd line back office support, 3rd line support as world-wide expert on radiation treatment planning

Sales: Public tenders, demos, marketing, B2B technology licensing, collaboration agreements

Management: Human resource issues for eighteen years, budget responsibilities, investor relations and yearly reports, defining product and company strategies, joint-venture and out-sourcing of technology, IP portfolio issues