Linnéa Lindau, CEO
Linnéa, 35 years of age, has spent the last ten years working as a business coach at Chalmers Innovation. She is also frequently engaged as director of everything from start-ups to established companies and foundations, including Chalmers University of Technology. In addition, she served as CEO of two technology-based growth companies.
Niklas Kalmteg,Project Manager
Niklas is Project Manager at Acosense. He has a M.Sc in Product Development focused on Technology Development and a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to his engineering education he worked with customer service in one of the major cell phone operator companies.
David Brohall, Director
David is one of the founders of Acosense. He has a M.Sc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship and a M.Sc in Automation and Mechatronics from Chalmers University of Technology. In addition, he has a M.Sc in Business Administration and Law at Gothenburg University. His prior background is manager for a family business, but he also has experience as a conscript officer.
David is 28 years old but a veteran when it comes to running companies and big projects. He has a background as manager for a family business, started to earn his first money when he was only 10 years old helping out in a carpenters business and strongly believes that “entrepreneur” is something you are as person, not your occupation. He has also been involved in several projects concerning social entrepreneurship, such as Insert Africa, CSR Väst and Loop Kapacity.
Felix Törner, Research Manager
Felix is the Research Manager at Acosense. He has a M.Sc in Biological Engineering from Linköping University of Technology. He also has valuable experience from the pulp industry, working mainly with PAT-instruments at Billerud Skärblacka AB. Prior to his education as an engineer he worked as an NCO in the Swedish Army. He is also a Certified Associate LabVIEW Developer (CLAD).
Peter Eriksson, Chairman of the board
Peter is the chairman of the board and has a wide experience from the process industries. He is manager of the business area flow technologies at Indutrade AB where he is the chairman of 25 companies, all within the process industries. Peter’s network has strong contacts within this industry. His network and experience in process industry provide a great value for Acosense development.
Carl-Gunnar Brogren, Board member
Carl-Gunnar is a senior project manager for process control at Eka Chemicals AB, which is a part of AkzoNobel. He has been involved in constructing production plants and implementing control in process industries since 1968. With his great experience he provides prominent advice to Acosense from the customers’ and end users’ perspective. He is also a member of SIP, Standardized instrument testing, which is a cooperation of instrument users in the Nordic countries and a part of the international equivalent Evaluation International.
Thomas Edström, Board member
Thomas is the board representative from ABB. He has experience working with evaluation of external inventions and is also very experienced from having worked with boards and financing organizations such as Vinnova. Thomas has also been the CEO of ABB’s fund for university research and collaborations.
Ingvar Andersson, Board member
Ingvar Andersson is the board representative from Encubator Holding AB and Chalmersinvest AB, where he is CEO. Ingvar has a broad business experience from managing dozens of start-up companies through Chalmers. Before working for Chalmersinvest he was the CEO of Chalmers Industriteknik, which is Chalmers’ consultancy firm.
Sofia Kocher, Board member
Sofia Kocher is the CEO of Vasasensor AB, a spin-off from Imego, started at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship. Sofia has great experience from running a start-up company in the pulp and paper industry.