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Ulf J. Johansson is a Swedish national with a distinguished career in communications technology. He is a founder and has been chairman of Europolitan Vodafone AB, a GSM mobile telephone operator in Sweden, since its start in 1990 until 2005. In 2005 Dr. Johansson was elected to the Board of Directors of Telefon AB LM Ericsson ('Ericsson'). He has served as a Director of Trimble Navigation Ltd since 1999 and was elected its Chairman in 2007 and he has served on the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish pharmaceutical/life science company from 1998 to 2005 when he left that position in order to take up the assignments as chairman of Novo Nordisk Foundation and Novo A/S, the private Danish investment company, parent company of the Novo Group and e.g. the majority owner of Novo Nordisk A/S and Novozymes A/S. He currently also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Acando AB, an IT- and management consulting company and Eurostep Group AB, a software- and consulting company specialized in product life cycle management. From 1998 to 2003 Dr. Johansson served as Chairman of the University Board of Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Earlier positions included being president and chief executive officer of Spectra-Physics, and executive vice president of Ericsson Radio Systems AB. Dr. Johansson received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and a Doctor of Technology Degree (Communication Theory) from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. | 