Åsa Tamsons

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Åsa Tamsons, Independent Director

Åsa Tamsons is a Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions at Ericsson where she is also a member of the Company's Executive Team. Ms. Tamsons primary focus is to establish Ericsson’s Enterprise Business and make 5G solutions pervasive in the enterprise segments. Ms. Tamsons’ business portfolio is focused on 5G based networking and security solutions to Enterprises. The business includes Cradlepoint – the US-based market leader in Wireless WAN Edge solutions serving 65,000+ enterprise customers around the world, Ericsson’s Private 5G Network business with products used by industry companies and the public safety sector, and an emerging enterprise security business offering unified SASE solutions to enterprises.


Previously, between 2018-2023, Ms. Tamsons held the role as Head of Business Area Technologies and New Businesses at Ericsson, with focus on driving growth in new business areas and creating new revenue streams for Ericsson, with emphasis on SaaS and software centric connectivity offerings. Her business portfolio included Ericsson’s world-leading IPR & Licensing business, the global number portability leaders, iconectiv- and a number of growth businesses in the fintech, adtech, enterprise connectivity and security markets. Between 2018-2020, Ms. Tamsons was also responsible for Ericsson's Group Strategy, M&A and Corporate Venture Capital investments. Ms. Tamsons joined Ericsson as a Partner from McKinsey where between 2006-2017 she served tech, telecom and industrial companies around the world. She has worked across the world and during her career has been based in Stockholm, Paris, Singapore, San Francisco and Sao Paulo.


Ms. Tamsons holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden.


Born in 1981, Swedish citizenship.