Stefan Gardefjord is the CEO of Swedish Space Corporation Sweden (SSC), a leading global provider of satellite ground network services, spacecraft operations, engineering services and launch services, with annual revenues of 100 million euros and 500 employees in 10 countries.
Gardefjord began his career as an analyst/programmer at the Dow Chemical Company where he became IT manager for the Nordic countries. He spent nearly two decades with the Nordic based WM-data Group Plc (Nasdaq OMX Nordic), in 2003 assuming the role of CEO WM-data Sweden. In 2006, the WM-data Group was acquired by Logica Plc (London FTSE 100), with some 40,000 employees in more than 40 countries, and he was then appointed CEO of Logica Sweden, Sweden’s largest IT services and outsourcing company.