User:VZBob/Hans Vestberg Education and career

Early life and education
Hans Vestberg was born in Hudiksvall, Sweden, in 1965. He studied at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, where he received a degree in Business Administration and Economics in 1991.

Career
Vestberg began his professional career in Hudiksvall at Ericsson Cables in 1991. He worked at Ericsson for 25 years, with management roles for the company in Sweden, China, Brazil, Mexico and the U.S.. He was CFO for Ericsson in Brazil from 1998 to 2000. From 2000 to 2002, Vestberg was CFO for Ericsson in North America and controller for the Americas. He served as president for Ericsson in Mexico from 2002 to 2003. Afterward, he served as a senior vice president and executive vice president for Ericsson before he was named chief financial officer in 2007, a post he held through 2009. Vestberg became the first CEO of Ericsson with an engineering background when he replaced Carl-Henric Svanberg in January 2010. Ericsson ousted Vestberg on July 25, 2016, following poor financial results.

Vestberg jointed Verizon as the company's chief technology officer and executive vice president of its Network and Technology team on April 3, 2017. There, he oversaw Verizon's fiber network and the development of Verizon's nascent 5G network. Verizon announced on June 8, 2018, that Vestberg would succeed Lowell McAdam as the company's chief executive officer on August 1.