Directors / Officers
Per Treven – LinkedIn
I was born in Ängelholm where I grew up until my military service at LV4 in Ystad and S1 in Enköping. After military service I got an opportunity to work in Paris at a mail order company for dental products for 1.5 years. Over there I figured out that I wanted to become an engineer and study at Chalmers rather than fill boxes with mail orders. At Chalmers I studied Electrical Engineering, graduated in 1990 and then started working at Ericsson in Stockholm. After a few years in Stockholm my family and I moved to Dallas for what we thought would be a few years, but am now celebrating 25 years over here. My Chalmers buddies and I decided to meet every year after graduation and have now met for 33 years straight, latest in Croatia. Måsen is definitely the best snaps song ever.
Michael Otterstedt – LinkedIn
Born and raised in Värnamo, Småland. During the military service I decided to go for a technical education and applied to Chalmers’ “Tekniskt basår” at Chalmers Lindholmen. After that year I continued at Lindholmen studying Computer Science at H. I graduated in the middle of the dot-com meltdown and spent some time delivering mail and other odd jobs before going back to Chalmers to study the masters program at Chalmers’ D section. After a year of realizing I did not want to study anymore, and an IT industry that went back on track I got a job at Drutt which brought me into Ericsson through an acquisition. I spent a bunch of years at Ericsson with short term assignments to different parts of the world. After leaving Ericsson, I got an opportunity to come back and applied for a position in Plano, Texas. After spending 8 months on Öland living the calm life, waiting for all the immigration papers to be completed I jumped on the plane to Montreal, Quebec instead of Texas to join Ericsson. I am currently working as Site Reliability Engineer at SAP in Montreal. On my spare time I like outdoors stuff like hiking, skiing or just trying to improve my home automation system. Sometimes I even make some beats on my drum kit.
Rebecca Landry – LinkedIn
Born and raised in Kungälv outside Gothenburg. Started Chalmers in 2013 where I studied Industrial Management and Production Engineering. I really enjoyed the fact that I could obtain an engineering degree that would allow me to focus on industrial management, social and natural sciences as well as sustainability. A few years before I started studying at Chalmers I took the opportunity to travel, this is when I met my husband. After I completed my studies at Chalmers I moved to Canada where I got a job with Saab. Now, almost 8 years later, I am still with Saab and living in Halifax, Nova Scotia with my husband and our two sons.
Åke Hellström – LinkedIn
Arne Dunhem – LinkedIn
Born in Ängelholm, but grew up in Helsingborg until it was time for Chalmers where I graduated from Electrical Engineering in 1974. I worked in Sweden three years after graduation. Have lived in Washington, D.C. since 1978 where I first worked until 1989 as a senior engineer/manager with the satellite organization INTELSAT. Since that time, I have been a Chairman or CEO for several publicly traded as well as privately held companies, dealing with satellite communications, telecommunication services, semiconductors and computer systems. I have been the Chairman for several nonprofit organizations. I was first secretary and then over several years the Chairman for U.S. Friends of Chalmers and later Chalmers Alumni Association USA/Canada until 2019.
Franco Maras – LinkedIn
I was born in the home town of Chalmers, where I started my studies in Electrical Engineering in 1984. The final year before graduation I was fortunate to be able study in Vienna at the Technische Universität. I returned to Gothenburg for my military service at LV6 as System Engineer, before receiving the opportunity to start working at Ericsson in Dallas, TX. This is where I met my beautiful wife, Mary, and where our two sons, Eric and Jacob, were born. In 2011 I switched industries and started working for Hunt Oil and have remained in the organization, although we are now part of Helmerich & Payne. Måsen was my favorite song at Chalmers and still remains the favorite!
Pelle Duong | LinkedIn
Raised in Karlskoga and then Angered/Göteborg, Sweden. After “lumpen” went to the USA for College (Virginia Tech and at the College of Charleston). Moved home to Gothenburg to study Industrial Economics & Innovation at Chalmers. Studied briefly at Lund University while working for Tetra Pak. Then, went to Vietnam, to work on a short-term specialty assignment. Worked, for a while, as Chief Engineer at a top 200 Forbes company, out of Spokane WA. Today greater Philadelphia PA is home, working at Alkegen (“We help people breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before”). I am thankful for having an assistant that can help me with updating, proofreading, and providing new ideas for our CAAI website. Thank you Matilda Duong!
Tomas Bern | LinkedIn
Born in Borås, but grew up in Säffle, studied Engineering Physics at Chalmers including one exchange year at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. While working for Ericsson, I met my wife in Caracas, Venezuela and moved later to Dallas, Texas where our two daughters – Alexis and Sandra – were born. Måsen is my favorite drinking song!
Roger Nordman | LinkedIn
Born in Kungshamn , studied Chemical Engineering and did a PH.D in Energy systems at Chalmers. I also met my wife at Chalmers. We now live in Mölnlycke outside Göteborg. Besides working at RISE for 15 years and two years for the student union, I’m now in Chalmers Industriteknik. For some years, I was the Mayor of Härryda Community. Måsen is my favorite drinking song!”
Herje Wikegård | LinkedIn
I was born and raised in Gävle and went to high school in Degerfors/Karlskoga, before finishing up with one year of military service at S2 in Karlsborg before I decided to go to Chalmers. I studied Electrical Engineering, specialized in technical programming and graduated with a M.Sc. 1980. During the Chalmers years I was very active in Allianceorkestern, CS and Spexet, you just cannot have any more fun than that! I still travel to jubilees and sing my favorite Måsen, followed by an OP. My first job was technically oriented programming at Sern Datorkonsult in Göteborg. In 1984 I accepted to go for a 3-months project to the subsidiary in Portland, Oregon. One thing led to another (including a wife and two grown children) and I never moved back. The final 30 working years I spent doing software related to high frequency on-wafer testing with Cascade Microtech, later FormFactor, until I retired in June 2020.
Hao Guo | LinkedIn
I was born in China and always feel that Sweden is my second home. Spending nearly ten years at Chalmers and in Gothenburg, from MSc to PhD and then postdoc, I had the opportunity to explore the world of wireless communication and the beauty of a sustainable city. With all the support I received, I was able to continue my journey in the US at New York University and the prestigious NYU Wireless. Thanks to such fantastic experience and all the amazing people around me, I landed a job with CableLabs in Denver, and now my wife and I are ready to explore the Rocky Mountains and cheer for our beloved Denver Nuggets. Yes, we had to skip Mavericks because of the Luka trade.