Management Team

 

Stefan Ekman   Stefan Ekman Founder and CEO, with 15 years of experience from international purchasing. Ekman worked as manager of strategic sourcing at Allgon Systems with outsourcing and partnerships for supply and technology. Prior to Allgon Ekman worked with industrial co-operation for CelsiusTech (a Swedish defence company), where he worked with offset issues, program management and strategic purchasing partnerships.
     
Bengt Johansson   Bengt Johansson joined Proximion in May 2007 as Chief Technology Officer. Bengt has more than 20 years experience within the optical industry, both from holding different managing positions and from doing research at for example Telia (Swedish PTT). Prior to joining Proximion Bengt worked with product management at Transmode Systems. He was VP of Engineering at Q2labs and founder of the company. He has also worked as System Design Manager for optical systems at Cisco Systems, Qeyton Systems and Ericsson Telecom. Bengt has more than 20 patents and holds a Master's Degree in Electronics from Chalmers University.
     
Tobias Persson   Tobias Persson joined Proximion in December 2007 as VP Sales and Marketing. Tobias has more than 10 years experience within sales of advanced systems to the electronics industry, both from holding different managing positions and from account management. Prior to joining Proximion Tobias worked with Business development at Micronic Laser Systems AB. Tobias holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
     
Anders Lundberg   Anders Lundberg joined Proximion in September 2007 as Chief Operating Officer. From 2000 to 2005 Mr. Lundberg served as CEO, founder, and member of the board of the optical networking start-up company Lumentis AB, and upon the merger with Transmode Systems AB remained as founder and consultant in the company up to June 2007. In July 2007 Mr. Lundberg co-founded and started-up a media and print corporation Alpha Sweden AB, in which he is presently a member of the board. From 1993 to 2000 Mr. Lundberg worked at Ericsson Telecom AB as main project manager and operational line manager for ERION WDM Product Division and main design manager for the SDH-SMUX Product Division. Mr. Lundberg holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal College of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
     
Maria Groth   Maria Groth joined Proximion in February 2008 as manager for Configuration Management (CM), Quality and Environmental. She has 18 years experience within the telecom industry. Prior to joining Proximion Maria worked as Customer Quality Engineer supporting the Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Network accounts at Powerwave Technologies Sweden AB. Maria has also worked as product manager and with developing and customizing the internal PLM system at Allgon Systems AB as well as with component engineering at Ericsson Business Networks AB.
     

Joakim Flodin

  Joakim Flodin joined Proximion in January 2007 as Chief Financial Officer. He has over 10 years experience from various financial positions. Recent positions include Accounting Manager at Gambro Lundia AB, Financial Manager at Hemapure AB (a medtech start-up company acquired by Gambro 2006) and Controller at Uppsala Utility Company. Joakim holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Linköping University, Sweden.
     
Gabrielle Byfors   Gabrielle Byfors joined Proximion in November 2005 as Manager Human Resources. Was previously engaged as an HR-consultant for a number of companies in various branches and has also spent some years at Ericsson, responsible for training program for certain products. Gabrielle holds a B.Sc. in Human Resource Development from the University of Stockholm.