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Erik Ekudden

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Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Member of the Executive team since 2018.

Erik Ekudden.

Functions: Head of Group Function Technology  
Born: 1968
Education: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Nationality: Sweden
Board Member: ASSA ABLOY AB, TM Forum, and fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).  
Holdings in Ericsson as of December 31, 2025: 60,193 Class B shares and 10,474 American Depositary Shares  
Previous positions: Group Chief Technology Officer and Head of Technology and Architecture within Group Function Technology and Emerging Business. Previously held several senior leadership roles within the Ericsson Group including Head of Technology Strategy, Chief Technology Officer Americas, and Head of Standardization and Industry.  

As Group CTO, Erik Ekudden is responsible for setting the direction of technology leadership for the Ericsson Group. In 2017 he was re-located to Kista, Sweden, after nearly seven-year at Ericsson in Santa Clara, California.

His experience from working with technology leadership globally will influence the strategic decisions and investments in mobility, distributed cloud, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things. This builds on his decades-long career in technology strategies and industry activities.

Ekudden first joined Ericsson in 1993 working on mobile systems research. He has served as research area director and vice president of standardization. During his career, his team created technology and multimedia functionality that are now used in today’s smartphones worldwide. This team also conducted some of the first work on virtual and augmented reality for mobile systems. He has worked to create global mobile systems for 3G, 4G and 5G in close collaboration with customers. 

He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.