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!
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.