Bjelkeman
Serial Entrepreneur
Founder at Metal Sweden Productions
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Career: 16
Founder
Metal Sweden Productions
Feb 2025 - Present
Founder
Metal Sweden Productions
Project Manager
Swedish Armed Forces
Aug 2025 - Present
Project Manager
Swedish Armed Forces
Bassist & song writer
Orbital Decay
2016 - Present
Bassist & song writer
Orbital Decay
Bassist, song writer and co-founder of the metal band Orbital Decay.
Council Member (Board member)
Nexus Aurora
Aug 2024 - Jan 2026
Council Member (Board member)
Nexus Aurora
Council member at space technology incubator, with focus on business development.
Co-founder and Managing Director
Johannas Stadsodlingar AB / Stremtech AB
On-site
Feb 2018 - Jan 2025
Co-founder and Managing Director
Johannas Stadsodlingar AB / Stremtech AB
On-site
We build and operate circular, sustainable food production systems, that scale and are replicable. Our indoor circular growing systems based on aquaponics allow us to produce local food 365 days a year, minimising transport, water use and other environmental impact. The operations have high levels of digitalisation and automation. With significant investments from among others Kull & Partners, Katapult VC and grants from Vinnova (Stremtech AB was earlier called Johannas Stadsodlingar AB).
Senior Advisor
Foundation for Environmental Monitoring
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Senior Advisor
Foundation for Environmental Monitoring
I have worked on strategy with the FFEM team in India as part of Akvo since 2014.
Co-founder & Senior advisor
Akvo Foundation
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Co-founder & Senior advisor
Akvo Foundation
Co-founder, co-director & CTO
Akvo Foundation
Aug 2006 - Apr 2019
Co-founder, co-director & CTO
Akvo Foundation
Co-director, CTO & co-founder at Akvo. We provide data solutions, built on an open source online data platform, for international development cooperation, governance and environmental monitoring. The platform is used by thousands of organisations including: UN-Habitat, World Bank, Governments of Liberia, Mali, Benin, Nepal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Fiji and more, UNDP, UNICEF, SNV, Plan, Cardno, Mars, UTZ and many others. We collected drinking water data for 100+ million people.
Volunteer - Business development
Seawater Greenhouse Ltd
2002 - 2008
Volunteer - Business development
Seawater Greenhouse Ltd
Worked with Charlie Paton at Seawater Greenhouse and independently to research and build business cases for Seawater Greenhouse implementations in different locations, including the Maldives and Curacao.
Founder/Director
ISSEL - Intranet Software Solutions (Europe) Ltd.
1997 - 2003
Founder/Director
ISSEL - Intranet Software Solutions (Europe) Ltd.
Founder of this UK reseller and software developer. Specialized in operational performance managment, web traffic analysis and work group collaboration. Customers included: Dell UK, Worldcom, BAE Systems, BT, Nomura, ST Microelectronics.
CEO
Zezame, Inc.
1999 - 2002
CEO
Zezame, Inc.
Co-founder of Zezame. Web site annotation and collaboration software. Shut down when the internet bubble burst.
Director
Trellis (UK) Ltd.
1995 - 1997
Director
Trellis (UK) Ltd.
Co-founder of this team of document managment consultants. Selected projects: British Biotech, Welcome Foundation, Abbey National.
Senior Consultant
Coyote Group
Apr 1994 - Sep 1995
Senior Consultant
Coyote Group
First employee at the Coyote Group, where we built the initial product that eventually became Stellent CMS. Customers included Baxter Healthcare, Silicon Systems and Western Digital. Stellent was sold to Oracle for $440 million in cash, in 2006.
Project Manager
Interleaf, Inc.
1988 - 1994
Project Manager
Interleaf, Inc.
Project management and technical project lead positions in both the UK subsidiary and the US mothership. Selected projects: British Aerospace, UPS Airline, Canadair and F.Hoffman-La Roche
System administrator
Ericsson Radio Systems AB
1987 - 1988
System administrator
Ericsson Radio Systems AB
Instructor, Lieutenant
Swedish Armed Forces
1984 - 1986
Instructor, Lieutenant
Swedish Armed Forces
Teacher and instructor at various positions at Uppland Regiment and the Signal Corps Officers College (SignOHS).
Education: 4
Stockholm University
BSc, Environmental Science
Aug 2005 - Jul 2025
Stockholm University
BSc, Environmental Science
Took a 20 year break before the graduation thesis got done.
Lysekil Higher Vocational Education
Higher Vocational Education Diploma
2019 - 2020
Lysekil Higher Vocational Education
Higher Vocational Education Diploma
One year education covering all aspects of aquaculture.
Royal Institute of Technology
Didn't graduate
1985 - 1986
Royal Institute of Technology
Didn't graduate
Signal Corps Officers College
Lieutenant
1983 - 1984
Signal Corps Officers College
Lieutenant
After 12 months of military service, I completed a further 12 months of training at the Signal Corps Officers college (SignOHS). Graduating as a Lieutenant.
Projects: 2
Akvo Flow
akvo.org/safe-water-for-all/
Mar 2012 - Apr 2019
Akvo Flow
akvo.org/safe-water-for-all/
In 2012 we took over Akvo Flow from Water for People. Akvo Flow is field data collection for smartphones. We scaled it up to be able to handle country-sized operations for drinking water quality monitoring, among other things. We added easy-to-use sensors for water quality directly in the phone app. In 2018, together with country partners and UNICEF, we held water quality data for rural areas covering more than 100 million people, primarily in West Africa, but also in many other regions, including Indonesia and the Pacific.
Akvo RSR
akvo.org/improve-and-showcase-your-results/
Sep 2006 - Mar 2019
Akvo RSR
akvo.org/improve-and-showcase-your-results/
Akvo RSR is a project visualisation and update system for development aid projects, used by hundreds of organisations internationally. Partners and users include UNDP, Dutch government, UN-HABITAT and Cisco.