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| Date of birth: | 1947-06-12 |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
| Languages: | Swedish |
| English | |
| German | |
| Academic: | Professor in product development. Halmstad University, |
| appointments: | Sweden (1995) |
| Professor in product- and business development. Narvik Institute of Technology, Norway (1993) | |
| Professor in mechanical design technology. Narvik Institute of Technology (1993) | |
| Teknologie doktor (PhD) in physics from Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Gothenburg, Sweden (Feb 1975 -Apr 1979) | |
| MBA from Gothenburg University, Sweden (Sep 1975 - Jan 1980) | |
| MSc in applied physics from Chalmers (Jan 1972 - Jan 1975) | |
| Mechanical Engineer diploma from Trollhättan College, Sweden (Sep 1966 - June 1969) | |
| Present employment: | Since January 1999 Managing Director of Tervix AB. Tervix publishes management books and performs consultation in dynamic business and product development. |
| Former employments: | 1. September 1997 - December 1998. Research director (half time) of Prosolvia AB. Prosolvia specialized on technical simulations and software development for Virtual Reality. Number of employees were during 1998 600. |
| 2. August 1993 to December 1998 teacher in product development and innovation management at Halmstad University. 1995 - 1997 Director of Studies for the BSc Innovation Engineering Program. Special task was to reform the education program and to implement the principles of Dynamic Product Development. 1994-1998 also research leader for the Center for Product Development Research - which had five active PhD students in December 1998. | |
| 3. Spring 1995 to Autumn 1997 Director of Studies for the MSc Technology Management program at Chalmers. | |
| 4. June 1987 - June 1993. Managing Director for Hisspecialisten Handiquip AB, Kungälv, Sweden. The company developed, produced and sold advanced lifts and elevators for spiral stairways. The company also performed planning of homes and work premises for disabled people. Handiquip was in June 1993 sold to an American company. | |
| 5. Sep 1983 - June 1987. Innovation management consultant for larger Scandinavian companies as well as director of the board for some smaller companies. | |
| 6. Sep 1981 - Aug 1983. Managing Director for Nordinvent AB in Gothenburg. Patent license company with larger Scandinavian companies as principals. | |
| 7. Aug 1979 - Sep 1981. General manager for SKF New Products in Gothenburg. Formation of e.g. the new business groups FlexLink Systems and Linear Actuators. FlexLink Systems was 1997 sold by SKF giving a net profit of approx. 850 MSEK for SKF. | |
| 8. Dec 1978 - Aug 1979. Laboratory manager for ITT Flygt AB in Solna, Sweden. Responsible for R&D of submersible pumps. Especially reshaping of the laboratory and implementing on-line measurement systems. | |
| 9. July 1976 - Dec 1978. Manager of studies at Chalmers for the MSc education in Applied Physics. | |
| 10. Sep 1975 -July 1976. Post graduate scholarship at Chalmers. | |
| 11. Sep 1974 - Sep 1975. Research engineer at Chalmers University of Technology. Soft-ware development for real time computer guidance of research equipment (mainly programming in Assembler codes and Allgol/Fortran). | |
| 12. Jan 1971 - Dec 1971. Deputy chairman at Linköpings Student Union, | |
| 13. Jan 1966 - Sep 1966. Engineering design at AB Nordverk, Åmål, Sweden. Design work on heavy trucks and forestry machines. | |
| 14. Mars 1965 - Dec 1965. Work shop employee at Flink Maskinfabrik in Åmål. Latheing, milling etc. | |
| 15. June 1964 - Feb 1965. Machine draftsman at AB Svenska Elektromagneter, Åmål, | |
| Other: | 1998. Two weeks intensive education of teachers and master students at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the fields of dynamic product development and innovation management. An innovation management B.Sc. program has been established following the principles of Dynamic Product and Business Development. Continous stand by support of the teachers over E-mail. |
| 1995-1998. Responsible for the Innovation Management education of professors and professionals at Ostrawa Technical University in the Czech Republic (an EU-Tempus Project). | |
| 1995-1997. Responsible for the Change Management education of professors and professionals in Sofia in Bulgaria (an EU-Tempus Project). | |
| 1994-1997. Teacher in Product Development education of professors and professionals at Tallinn Technical University in Estonia (a Tempus Project) This project continued 1998 as a special project funded by the Ministry of the Nordic Countries. | |
| Member of the international program committee for the conference in Köln (Germany), Cracow (Poland), Zielona Góra (Poland), Glasgow (Gr. Br.), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Tallin (Estonia), Halmstad (Sweden) and Limerick (Ireland) | |
| Initiative taker and chairman of the Swedish Low-speed elevator group, Swedish Industry Union (VI), Stockholm, 1991-93 | |
| Patents: | Two Swedish patents (overspeed brake for elevators, and person lift). |
| Patents applied for: | One Swedish application (software development tool). |
Copyright 1999 by John Stark