Ericsson Ventures
Ericsson Ventures invests in leading companies to drive innovation in new areas, accelerate our core business, and generate strong returns. We leverage our global reach and deep customer relationships for the benefit of our portfolio companies.
Investment strategy
Accelerate our core business
Drive innovation in new areas
Generate strong financial performance
Investment areas
We invest across all stages and focus on emerging growth areas for Ericsson and our customers, as well as our core businesses.
Next-generation Networking
Core Technologies
Artificial Intelligence
IOT
Security
Quantum Technology
Cloud Computing
Data Analytics
Enterprise Software
Leadership
Paul McNamara
Vice President
Paul is a software industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience. Prior to Ericsson, Paul served as Vice President of the force.com platform at Salesforce.com, SVP of Visual Systems at SGI and was one of the original 3 executive officers at Redhat.
Paul has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University.
Graham Ackerman
Vice President
Previously, Graham oversaw corporate development including venture investing, mergers, and acquisitions, as well as capital markets activities including investor relations for Telcordia Technologies. Graham's previous companies include AT&T Corp and Putnam, Hayes, & Bartlett, an economic and management consulting firm.
Graham earned his BA at the University of Chicago and MBA at Dartmouth.
Vik Li
Investment Director
Vik has over a decade of Telecom and IoT experience across sales, commercial, strategy and technical management, with a strong track record of closing deals with new customers in new industries. Prior to joining Ericsson Ventures, she led Automation & AI innovation projects within Ericsson.
Vik earned her BS in Computer Science from Sun-Yat Sen University in China and an MBA from University of Surrey in the UK.
Porter Ontko
Investment Associate
Porter previously worked at Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst in the Partners Coverage group within the Consumer and Investment Management Division, providing full service private wealth management coverage for current and retired Goldman Sachs partners alike. Following Goldman, Porter joined VU Venture Partners where he specialized in the Fintech space.
Porter earned his BA from Dartmouth College in 2018 and was a member of the Dartmouth football team.
