Management

President and CEO

Born 1965, Bachelor in Business Administration, University of Uppsala.
Board Member: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Svenska Handbollsförbundet.
Holdings in Ericsson *: 18,920 Class B shares.
Background: Prior to this position Hans Vestberg was Chief Financial Officer and Head of Group Function Finance (since October 2007). Prior that Executive Vice President and Head of Business Unit Global Services, he has also held various positions in the Company since 1988, including Vice President and Head of Market Unit Mexico and Head of Finance and Control in US A, Brazil and Chile.

Hans Vestberg has been appointed President and CEO as of January 1, 2010.

Hans Vestberg

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Head of Group Function Finance

Born 1965. Bachelor of Business Administration and Economics, University of Uppsala.
Holdings in Ericsson*: 906 Class B shares.
Background: Prior to this position Jan Frykhammar was Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit Global Services (since January 2008). Jan joined Ericsson in 1991 and has held various positions such as Sales and Business Control in Business Unit Global Services, CFO in North America and Vice President, Finance and Commercial within the Global Customer Account Vodafone.

Jan Frykhammar 

Chief Brand Officer and Head of MU South East Europe

Born 1950, degree in Electronics Engineering

Board member: Member of the Steering Committee for Innovation and Technology Services within the Association of Telecom service providers within Confindustria, the National Association of Industralists in Italy.

Background: Cesare Avenia joined Ericsson in 1994 when he was appointed marketing manager for division Mobile Systems. In parallel, he has been teaching industrial marketing at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome.

Cesare Avenia

Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit CDMA Mobile Systems as of January 18, 2010

Born 1965, Holds a Bachelor's degree of Information Systems and a Master's degree of administration, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Background: Prior to assuming this position Rima Qureshi held the position as Head of Ericsson Response and Head of the AT&T Improvement Program within Market Unit North America.

Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit Global Services, effective January 18, 2010

Born 1959. Bachelor's degree of science in Business Administration from University of Lund, Sweden.

Board Member: Deputy board member for Sony Ericsson
Holdings in Ericsson*: 5146 Class B shares
Background: Prior to assuming this position Magnus Mandersson was President and Head of Market Unit Northern Europe and Head of Global Customer Account Deutsche Telekom

Magnus Mandersson 

Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit Multimedia (since 2007)

Born 1956, Master of Science, Chalmers University, Göteborg.
Board Member: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB.
Holdings in Ericsson *: 37,698 Class B shares.
Background: From 2002 to 2006, Jan Wäreby was Executive Vice President and Head of Sales and Marketing for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.

Jan Wäreby

Executive Vice President and Head of Business Unit Networks (since 2008)

Born 1963. Master of Computer Science, Linköping Institute of Technology.
Holdings in Ericsson*: 8,555 Class B shares
Background: Prior to assuming this position, Johan Wibergh was President of Ericsson Brazil. Other former experience includes President of Market Unit Nordic and Baltics, Vice President and Head of Sales at Business Unit Global Services.

Johan Wibergh 

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Group Function Technology & Portfolio Management and Head of Ericsson in Silicon Valley

Born 1961, Master of Science and Honorary Ph D, Linköping Institute of Technology.
Board member: Linköping University and Anoto.
Holdings in Ericsson *: 18,618 Class B shares
Background: Prior to assuming this position, Håkan Eriksson was Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Development. He has held various positions within Ericsson since 1986.

Håkan Eriksson

Senior Vice President and Head of Group Function Strategy (since 2009)

Born 1963, Bachelor in accounting from the University of Richmond, Master in Business Administrations from Emory University in Atlanta, executive program at INSEAD, France.
Background: Prior to assuming this position, Douglas L. Gilstrap was CFO and Co-Founder of Asia Pacific Exploration Consolidated (APEC) and also held various global managerial positions in different companies within the telecommunications and IT sector, for more than 15 years.

Douglas L. Gilstrap 

Head of MU Greater China

Born 1954, Master of Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Background: Mats Olsson began his career at Ericsson in 1982. He was posted in Asia in 1984 where he founded Ericsson’s wholly-owned offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Indonesia, respectively. During his career in Asia, Mats has been president of Ericsson’s operations in Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia.  In 2004, he was appointed president of Ericsson Greater China with overall responsibility for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, leading a regional team of more than 9,000 employees.

Mats H Olsson is member of Executive Leadership Team as of February 8, 2010.

Head of MU North America

Born 1956, holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida and a master’s degree in management science and information systems from John Hopkins University.
Background: Angel Ruiz joined Ericsson in 1990 and has held a variety of sales and managerial positions within the company, including heading up the global account teams for Cingular/SBC/BellSouth (now AT&T). He was also involved in project and product management and worked in customer support assignments in Mexico, Venezuela and Sweden. Before joining Ericsson, Angel Ruiz held various positions with Sprint, AT&T and Bell Atlantic. In 2001, he was appointed president of Ericsson North America.

Angel Ruiz is member of Executive Leadership Team as of February 8, 2010.

Senior Vice President and Head of Group Function Human Resources and Organization (since 2003) 

Born 1955, Bachelor of Human Resources Management, Stockholm University, Advanced Management Program, Cedep, France.
Board Member: Utbildningsradion.
Holdings in Ericsson *: 23,325 Class B shares
Background: Prior to assuming this position, Marita Hellberg was Senior Vice President of Human Resources of the NCC Group.

Marita Hellberg 

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Head of Group Function Legal Affairs (since 1999) 

Born 1951, Master of Law, LL M, University of Uppsala.
Holdings in Ericsson *: 1,216 Class A shares and 24,911 Class B shares
Background: Prior to assuming this position, Carl Olof Blomqvist was a partner of Mannheimer Swartling law firm.

Carl Olof Blomqvist

Senior Vice President and Head of Group Function Communications (since 2002)

Born 1955, Studied law, sociology and political science, Linköping University and at the Swedish War Academy, Karlberg, Stockholm.
Board member: Stronghold and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
Holdings in Ericsson *: 17,403 Class B shares.
Background: Prior to assuming this position, Henry Sténson was Head of SAS Group Communication.

Henry Sténson 

Senior Vice President and Head of Group Function Sales and Marketing (since 2008)

Born 1953. Master of Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Holdings in Ericsson*: 16,586 Class B shares.
Background: Prior to assuming this position, Torbjörn Possne was Head of Market Unit Northern Europe and Global Customer Account Deutsche Telekom and also held other various positions within Ericsson.

Torbjörn Possne

   
* The number of Class B shares (and Class A shares, if applicable) includes holdings by related natural or legal persons. Options and matching rights are reported in Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements – Note C29, "Information Regarding Employees, Members of the Board of Directors and Management" in the Annual Report.