Åsa Tamsons

​Åsa Tamsons is a Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Technologies and New Businesses at Ericsson, where she is also a member of the Company’s Executive Team. Ms. Tamsons primary focus is on driving growth in new business areas targeting the enterprise market and creating new revenue streams for Ericsson, with emphasis on SaaS and software centric connectivity offerings. The objective is to help the Company’s customers, and the broader enterprise market, realize the full potential of 5G, IoT and future technologies.

Ms. Tamsons drives a business portfolio encompassing commercialization and licensing of Ericsson’s 57,000+ patents, Cradlepoint – the US-based market leader in Wireless WAN Edge solutions for the enterprise market, Ericsson’s global IoT platform business, its Private Network business with products used by industry companies and the public safety sector, as well as the new Small-Medium Business Solutions focusing on connectivity offerings to the SMB market, and a number of other emerging businesses in incubation stage through the innovation hub Ericsson ONE. The business portfolio also includes the global number portability leader, iconectiv, as well as the fully owned subsidiary RedBee Media, where Ms. Tamsons serves on the board.

Previously, 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.