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Erik Ekudden

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Senior Vice President och teknisk direktör. Medlem i koncernledningen sedan 2018.

Erik Ekudden.

Funktioner: Chef för koncernfunktionen Technology  
Född: 1968
Utbildning: Civilingenjörsexamen i elektroteknik, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm.  
Nationalitet: Sverige
Styrelseledamot: ASSA ABLOY AB, TM Forum, ledamot Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA).  
Innehav i Ericsson per den 31 december 2025: 60 193 B-aktier och 10 474 American Depositary Shares  
Tidigare befattningar: Teknisk direktör och chef för Technology & Architecture inom koncernfunktionen Technology and Emerging Business. Har tidigare innehaft flera olika chefsbefattningar inom Ericssonkoncernen, till exempel chef för Technology Strategy, teknisk direktör för Americas och chef för Standardization & 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.