| Biography
Bo Hedfors, a native of Sweden, has 44 years of global telecom experience in both wireline and wireless. He founded his own telecom/internet consulting practice in Chicago, USA in 2002. Bo was President of Hedfone Consulting, Inc until its dissolution in Dec of 2009.
Previously, Bo was Executive Vice President of Motorola and President of Motorola Networks based in Chicago. He came to Motorola in 1998 from Ericsson, where he spent 30 years in different management positions. Among them, President of Honeywell Ericsson Development Co. in Anaheim, California 1984-1986, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of LM Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden 1990-1993 and President and CEO of Ericsson, Inc. in Dallas, Texas 1994-1998.
Bo is member of the Board of Tellabs and three private companies: Silicon Valley based Kineto Wireless, (where he serves as Chairman), Firetide and San Diego based E-Band Communications. Bo has been Chairman of Virtutech (acquired by Intel) and Cyneta Networks (sold to Tektronix) and has served on the board of Openwave, SwitchCore and Mobile365 (acquired by Sybase). He has been advisor to Sun, Compaq, HP and Samsung and is currently engaged as advisor to private companies worldwide.
Bo is a former long-term member of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). He has served on several university boards and is currently Chairman of US Friends of Chalmers University of Technology, Inc. Also, Bo is on the board of CommNexus San Diego, a network of communications companies and he is advisor of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in San Diego.
Bo holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and he is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
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