30.11.2015

Digital VP for Cargotec

Hiab and Kalmar owner Cargotec, has appointed Lasse Eriksson as vice president, digitalisation. He starts tomorrow and will report to Cargotec’s chief information officer Soili Mäkinen.

Eriksson joins the company from Konecranes, where he has spent more than five years as technology programme manager. Prior to that he worked for almost 10 years at Aalto University, Finland, in the departments of Automation and Systems Technology and Communications and Networking, coordinating the research of wireless automation and wireless sensor systems.
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Lasse Eriksson

He has been a member of the Fimecc (Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster) steering group, and the chairman of Fimecc's ‘Novel Solutions’ strategic research theme area that concentrates, among others, on the research related to the industrial internet.

"Lasse will have a critical role in leading Cargotec's digitalisation initiatives and supporting our businesses in building their digital capabilities further," said Mäkinen.