Charlotta Sund new CEO of SSC

She comes from Tekniska verken in Linköping, where she has been CEO since 2018. She has also worked at the telecommunications company Ericsson. She sits on the boards of Enea and Hexatronic.

She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, and studied for a Master of Science in Industrial Economics at Linköping University, where she was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in technology.

“It feels incredible to join the space industry during this historic period in time. As space infrastructure gets increasingly important for our modern societies on Earth, SSC is truly establishing itself as a societal builder,” says Charlotta Sund.

The Esrange space base has been launching rockets for research purposes and receiving data from satellites for many years. The next step in Esrange's development will be to launch satellites.

“Sweden can take a leading role in the global space development – with our engineering expertise, our geographical location between the Baltic Sea, the Atlantic and the North Pole, our global presence on all continents, and with Esrange Space Center as the EU’s only mainland-based spaceport. Therefore, I am pleased that the SSC Board has decided to employ a CEO with solid experience both from commercial and international business operations as well as from critical societal infrastructure. Both these aspects will be needed to lead SSC to the next level,” says Anna Kinberg Batra, SSC Chair of the Board.

Current CEO Stefan Gardefjord is retiring after 12 years at SSC. Charlotta Sund will take over in the fall.

Lennart Håkansson

editor@northswedenbusiness.com