Magnus Leonhardt
Director, Head of Strategy & Business Development B2B, Telia Sweden
As strategy and innovations director, Magnus drives the long-term ambition, challenges the line of business, secures thought leadership and strategic proof points with customer driven innovation – leveraging Telia Company overall strategic direction.
Magnus has soon worked 3 decades within telco and IT industries with more then 20 years within Ericsson through the 90s and 00s and now the last 9 years at Telia. During this time, with the establishment of global mobile industry as a foundation, he focused on Enterprise communications solutions from one manned business to public and global organizations driving business development and strategic directions for Ericsson and Telia.
“-My absolute strength is my curiosity for what technology and new thinking can do for value creation, along with continuous challenge of status quo – especially cross large organizations”
The most recent achievements are developing 5G strategies and ecosystems implementing 5GPP programs for industries, public sector and academy cross Sweden. A new way of thinking for value creation – especially for a telco!