Styrelseakademien

Stockholm School of Economics IFL Executive Education

The George Washington University

Kungliga tekniska högskolan

Chalmers tekniska högskola

Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education

CEO SynerLeap powered by ABB  -  Executive MBA  -  PMP  -  Board Director  -  ABB SVP Global Startup Collaborations, SynerLeap  -  10k+

Västerås, Västmanland County, Sweden

Globally responsible for shortening innovation cycles and increasing value creation through collabrating with startups and scaleups utilizing the SynerLeap platform and methodology.

SVP Global Startup Collaborations, SynerLeap

Member of the Skapa Award Jury in Västmanland since 2018Inventions are the key to Sweden's prosperity. We have a proud inventor tradition since Alfred Nobel's days. The SKAPA Foundation wants to encourage creative people by awarding Sweden's largest innovation Prize - the SKAPA Award.http://stiftelsenskapa.se

Skapa Award - Swedens Largest Innovation Prize

Jury Member 2018 & 2019

Member of the Board of the Electrum Foundation (<a href="http://www.kista.com/electrum-foundation/">http://www.kista.com/electrum-foundation/</a>) The Electrum Foundation has two subsidiaries, both of them covering one of the most thriving innovation ecosystem in Sweden.1. Kista Science City AB (<a href="http://www.kista.com)Kista">www.kista.com)Kista</a> Science City is the largest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe and the third largest ICT cluster in the world.2. STING AB (<a href="http://www.stockholminnovation.com/">http://www.stockholminnovation.com/</a>) is the most successful startup accelerator in Scandinavia, with several international awards.

Electrum Foundation

Member of the Board

Co-founder and Managing Director of ABB’s innovation growth hub, accelerating value creation by collaborating with startups. My responsibilities has been everything from finding out suitable methodologies, raising funding, setting up a subsidiary, to operations, management, scaling and harvesting value together with startups. To date SynerLeap has in short time grown from working only with startups in Sweden, to working with 90+ startups from 14+ countries from five parts of the world.  This has resulted in the SynerLeap platform, which on top of ABB and startups now also ties together ABB customers and collaborators such as Westinghouse Electric, Mälarenergi and the industrial network Automation Region in a thriving innovation ecosystem. Around one new collaboration is started every week (in total 130+) and ABB has invested in five of the startups members.More info at <a href="http://www.synerleap.com">www.synerleap.com</a> or @SynerLeap in Social media and at LinkedIn. Follow Us!synerleap.comSynerLeap is an innovation growth hub located in the heart of the ABB Corporate Research Center in Västerås Sweden.The purpose is to create an ecosystem where ABB can utilize and enable small technology companies to grow and expand on a global market in three areas: industrial automation, robotics and energy.The vision is to reach shorter innovation cycles, decreased time to market and together strengthen the competitiveness. This is made possible by sharing the same innovation environment.The Synergies between companies, partners, and unique infrastructure and expertise is the key. And our aim is to let our companies take the big Leap. Hence this is our inspiration for the name SynerLeap! The color of the logo represents curiosity, passion and creativity, key pillar for the innovation environment. Digitalization is a key to the future, a common denominator when creating solutions for industry and energy.

SynerLeap

Managing Director

Member of the Board of the R&D Council in Västmanland since 2015www.fouradet.seThe R&D Council in Västmanland promots the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Västmanland by stimulating and supporting:- Development of new technology-based products or services- Use of new technologiesWe do this in particular by:- Provide financial support during the first stages of product development.- Discuss and give feedback on project design and technology.- Establishing contacts with other companies / institutions or colleges for cooperation and exchanging experience.Our financial support is for concrete development projects up to 150 000 SEK per project.In the assessment, we look not only at the level of technology, but also on marketing, finance, cost, price, etc. Each application is assessed by the R & D Council's Board of Directors which then decides on grants. The Board consists of representatives from industry,research and society. We are happy to participate in co-financing and then our share is maximum15%.Commercially successful projects will pay back their money to the R & D Council. The refund is made by the company to pay royalties based on net sales results. Refund requirement ceases when the accumulated royalties amounts to premium plus an agreed factor.In the R&D Council I represent the Industry and I help applying companies to find and utilize suitable industrial contacts. As Managing Director in SynerLeap, I also provide opportunities for accessing and be part of the unique innovation ecosystem of SynerLeap.

Memebr of the Board  - Västmanland R&D Council (Västmanlands Forsknings & Utvecklingsråd)

Reporting to the Research Director of ABB Sweden I am responsible for establishing and developing collaboration and partnerships with key customers and external companies, spanning from large corporations to small fast growing start up companies. In this role I am working all over ABB’s business units and divisions as well cross all for ABB relevant technologies, sometimes within ABB’s present market segments, sometimes within new potential businesses. Common for all cases, I look for synergies where collaboration can generate more value for all parties than working individually.

Head of Strategic Collaboration & Business Development

Member of the Board between 2014 and 2020.Acosense develops and sells Acospector Acoustic Chemometer, a Clamp-on instrument measuring complex fluids in the process industry, delivering analysis previously thought difficult or impossible to obtain. The innovative technique can measure a multitude of properties simultaneously and delivers accurate measurements even on opaque, viscous or corrosive fluids.In the Board I represent ABB interests and helps Acosense to develop and grow, incorporating strategy development and operational excellence.I have guided the company from a small promising startup, to a professional company with customers from South America to China and also been part of the IPO and many rounds of capital <a href="http://raising.http://acosense.com/en_GB">raising.http://acosense.com/en_GB</a>

Acosense

Industrial representative for the 200+ employee strong research department, subdivided into five research groups. Focus on strategic input and guidance for research areas, activities and organizational setups for maximizing outcome.http://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/e2/Pages/default.aspx

Chalmers University of Technology

Advisory Board Member - Signals & Systems (Electrical Engineering)

Industrial Advisory Board memberITS-EASY is an industrial research school in Embedded Software and Systems, affiliated with the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDT) at Malardalen University (MDH), as an integrated part of the MDH strategic research area Embedded Systems (ES).	 ITS-EASY is a cooperation with MDH, KKS and ten industry partners.ITS-EASY envisions to be a unique industrial research school par excellence in the Embedded Systems domain in Sweden. ITS-EASY is focused on topics of paramount importance for dominating parts of Swedish industry: Embedded Systems including Software-Intensive Systems, Dependable (reliable and safe) Systems, and Sensor Systems. The main industrial domains considered are automation, telecommunication and vehicles.The primary topics covered by ITS-EASY are related to system and software engineering of embedded systems, with emphasis onSystem and Software Evolution,Testing and Monitoring,Platform Virtualization, andData Acquisition and Processing.	In the Industrial Committe I have represented and supported the ABB PhD students from Västerås, Ludvika and Bangalore India as well as enabled collaboration with the other industrial partners. Until Nov 2016 the ITS-EASY Research School has generated two ABB PhD’s (according to plan) and the third is on its way.http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/projects/itseasy/

Mälardalen University

Industrial Committee Member - ITS EASY

Group Manager for the team within Embedded Systems & Industrial Communication and Local Department Manager for Automation Networks Department at ABB AB Corporate Research. During the first year the team was increasing from 11 members to 23 regular employees and finally peaking at 30 (including thesis workers and external researchers). Reporting to the Research Director (Head of ABB AB Corporate Research) and to the Department Manager of Automation Networks in Norway. A fantastic team generating lots and lots of valuable results! Our technology solutions are now integral parts of many of todays ABB products and solutions.

R&D Group Manager

Co-founder and Head of ABB Simulation Network. Planning and Heading execution of an ABB global Need Analysis within the Simulation Area followed by formation of a global contact network among experts and management. Formulation of Strategy & RoadMap followed by execution. Among the results can be mentioned arranging two global conferences involving CTO, key-note speakers from companies as Nissan, Airbus & Proctor & Gamble sharing their simulation best practices. Furthermore, contracts with vendors of simulation software were renegotiated, and licenses were pooled together for increasing flexibility and heavily reducing costs. Common High Performance Computing clusters were formed and utilization level was increased significantly (read several factors) due to optimized computer management solutions.During these years total ABB costs were frozen or decreased at the same time as number of users increased with a factor of three(!) globally.

Coordinator of ABB Simulation Network

Headed several complex technology & product development projects involving end customers as SSAB, Corus and ThyssenKrupp. Projects resulted in installations of novel electromagnetic technologies for e.g. stabilizing of the steel strip in the continuous galvanizing process and optimization of flow conditions and finally the product quality of the continuous casting processes. Solutions implied higher production rate and increased quality. Projects were involving around 50 people at the most covering a wide range of expertise.

Project Manager

Research in the area of Reactive Flow Modeling applied on the Chemical Vapor Deposition Process. Truly a MultiPhysics process combining Inductive Heating, with radiation and heat transfer and an extensive set of chemical reactions, gases and phase deposition. The work resulted in several papers, including journal publication in Journal of Electrochemical Society and a Licentiate of Technology Exam. (corresponding to about 2,5 years full time research)

Industrial PhD Student

Project Manager for development of a new High Voltage Breaker family with ratings from 72 -123 kV. Team consisted of five full time members, covering all necessary competencies, e.g. arc physics, dynamics, experiments & simulations. Market study was performed and full-scale prototypes were built and tested in the High Voltage Lab.

Worked in the R&D team for Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) development in Hanau, Germany, as a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) expert. Main tasks were to support the development teams for two families of Gas Insulated Switchgears with simulations and to transfer my simulation knowledge to their experts. In addition I headed a full scale GIS explosion experiment where evacuation slots in a mobile GIS container were tested for the first time. With gas dynamics simulation the evacuation slots were designed in order to open automatically by means of the overpressure, in case of an explosion. The test was successful and witnessed by the whole R&D department lined up waiting with interest for the ‘big bang’..

Development Engineer

Selected as one of few out of 300 applicants for the ABB Executive Trainee program. Program consisted of working in three different parts of ABB, combined with education, training and internal company visits. The program ended with a period working abroad.

Peter Löfgren

Peter Löfgren