Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Strategy and Technology for the Ericsson Group

Ulf Ewaldsson was appointed as Ericsson's Group CTO in February 2012 and became Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Strategy and Technology in September 2016.

Prior to February 2012, Ewaldsson was Head of Product Area Radio at Ericsson's Business Unit Networks. In this position, which he held from January 2007 until February 2012, he was instrumental in helping to create some of the products that reflect Ericsson's technology leadership, such as HSPA and LTE in the radio-access network; the multi-standard RBS 6000; and the antenna-integrated radio unit.

Ewaldsson is the chairman of Ericsson's Research Board. He is also a member of Lund University Board and the Ericsson-LG Board in Korea. He is involved in the European strategic work regarding ICT and Telecom taking part in the European Cloud Partnership Steering Board and the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP SCC) headed by the European Commission in Brussels. He has more than 20 years of experience in product management, industry development and customer relations, which has taken him to leadership positions at Ericsson in China, Japan, Hungary and Sweden.

Ewaldsson was born in Skåne in southern Sweden in 1965. He graduated with an MSc in Engineering and Business Management from Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden