# Bjelkeman (@metalsweden.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/metalsweden.com
Headline: Serial Entrepreneur

## About

Entrepreneur, with background in computer software and environmental management. Working with new developments in digitalisation.

Specialties: Cloud data implementations. Data systems for sustainable food, energy and water.

## Experience

- **Founder at Metal Sweden Productions** (2025 – present)
- **Bassist & song writer at Orbital Decay** (2016 – present)
  Bassist, song writer and co-founder of the metal band Orbital Decay.
- **Council Member (Board member) at Nexus Aurora** (2024 – 2026)
  Council member at space technology incubator, with focus on business development.
- **Project Manager at Swedish Armed Forces** (2025 – present)
- **Founder/Director at ISSEL - Intranet Software Solutions (Europe) Ltd.** (1997 – 2003)
  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.
- **Director at Trellis (UK) Ltd.** (1995 – 1997)
  Co-founder of this team of document managment consultants. Selected projects: British Biotech, Welcome Foundation, Abbey National.
- **Senior Consultant at Coyote Group** (1994 – 1995)
  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 at Interleaf, Inc.** (1988 – 1994)
  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 at Ericsson Radio Systems AB** (1987 – 1988)
- **Instructor, Lieutenant at Swedish Armed Forces** (1984 – 1986)
  Teacher and instructor at various positions at Uppland Regiment and the Signal Corps Officers College (SignOHS).
- **Co-founder and Managing Director at Johannas Stadsodlingar AB / Stremtech AB** (2018 – 2025)
  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 at Foundation for Environmental Monitoring** (2019 – 2021)
  I have worked on strategy with the FFEM team in India as part of Akvo since 2014.
- **Co-founder & Senior advisor at Akvo Foundation** (2019 – 2021)
- **Co-founder, co-director & CTO at Akvo Foundation** (2006 – 2019)
  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 at Seawater Greenhouse Ltd** (2002 – 2008)
  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.
- **CEO at Zezame, Inc.** (1999 – 2002)
  Co-founder of Zezame. Web site annotation and collaboration software. Shut down when the internet bubble burst.

## Education

- **Lysekil Higher Vocational Education** — Higher Vocational Education Diploma (2019 – 2020)
- **Royal Institute of Technology** — Didn't graduate (1985 – 1986)
- **Signal Corps Officers College** — Lieutenant (1983 – 1984)
- **Stockholm University** — BSc, Environmental Science  (2005 – 2025)

## Skills

- Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable Development
- Social Entrepreneurship
- International Development
- Sustainability
- Project Management
- Program Management
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Water
- Management Consulting
- NGOs
- Strategy
- Research
- Capacity Building
- Fundraising
- Non-profits
- International Relations
- System Architecture
- People Skills
- Marketing Communications
- Sustainable Business
- Open Innovation
- Climate Change
- Knowledge Management
- Governance
- Aquaculture
- Start-up Ventures
- Software Development

## Projects

- **Akvo RSR** — https://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.
- **Akvo Flow** — https://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.

## Languages

- English (full_professional)
- Swedish (native)