About Åke:

Engineering & Product Manager, passionate leader of digital product-development with 25+ years valuable wisdoms. Experiences in Software, HW Electronics, Telecom Wireless and Manufacturing. Started 1983 in Stockholm building up 15 years of Finance Industry experience as Project and Line Manager roles, leading software development of Custody management and securities system.

My passion is to be a Product or Engineering manager at the front, working with and coaching teams for success, taking on leadership of strategic transition challenges in any organisation.
My strengths are, challenging but humble leadership combining technical and product understanding with entrepreneurial and commercial thinking to deliver valuable results.

Roles experience:
Agile leadership mindset, Engineering Management, Product Management, Cloud & Event driven Architecture, HW Factory Electronics Production, Customer & Partners relations.

Personality:

• Logical, analytical and objectively critical
• Prone to conceptualising, adept at turning possibilities into realistic targets
• Good at correcting illogical or ineffective approaches
• Values intelligence and competence
• Action-oriented and strategic, good at coordinating resources to achieve goals
• Generally regarded as direct, challenging, decisive, objective and stimulating

Industry & Personal experience:

• Retail – Fulfilment Order Management SW transformations, Latest 5 years with IKEA / Ingka
• Telecom – Mobile&Operators, Wireless HW/SW, Product Mgmt, Partnerships, 20 years, whereof 9 years at Ericsson Mobile Division
• Finance – Private Banking, Custody Management SW Development, 15 years, whereof 7 years at SEB Investment Banking
• Happy married husband, Proud father to 2 boys now both are fathers, Lucky grandfather to 4 grand kids
• Dog training for drug detection, Sailor/Boatman, Goalkeeper Handboll, Treeking tours preferrable in warm climate

My wish:

To join teams with business passion and happiness moving the needle in some prio areas, short-term or part-time, to share and coach with all available knowledge.