Tom Lindström
Director
Government and Industry Relations
Group Function Sales & Marketing
Ericsson Group HQ
Mr. Lindström is Director at Ericsson’s Group Headquarters in Sweden. During more than 15
years of extensive engagement in global regulatory and policy affairs he has developed and led
Ericsson’s global network of government and industry relations resources.
Between 1999 and 2002 while at the Ericsson’s Washington DC office he was instrumental in
developing the spectrum policy solution that resulted in the US Advanced Wireless Services
allocation. His elected positions include spectrum policy groups of the US
Telecommunications Industry Association and at EICTA, the European ICT industry
association. He has extensive experience from management fora within the ITU and ETSI
including a six year secondment to the Board of the European Telecommunications Standards
Institute including the UMTS Globalization Group that created the 3GPP.
Prior to joining Ericsson in 1990, he served as the Marketing Concept Manager at the Philips
Telecom & Data Systems’ Financial Industry Business Unit and was before to that responsible
for the electronics and physics sectors at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering
Sciences. He started his career at the product management unit of Ericsson Telecom in 1978.
He holds a Master of Science in Physics Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm and has studied telecommunications at the graduate school of University of
Texas at Dallas.
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+46 10 719 5338
+46 70 519 5338
tom.lindstrom@ericsson.com
Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson AB
Torshamnsgatan 23
SE-164 80 Stockholm, Sweden
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