Johan Dennelind
{{Short description|Swedish businessman}}
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| birth_name = Johan Eric Dennelind
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}
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| nationality = Swedish
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| alma_mater = Örebro University
| occupation = Businessman
| title = Former CEO, du
| term = September 2019 – September 2020
| predecessor = Osman Sultan
| successor = Fahad Al Hassawi
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Johan Eric Dennelind (born 1969) is a Swedish businessman, and a former CEO of du, a United Arab Emirates telecom company, from September 2019 to September 2020. He was previously president and CEO of Telia Company, the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland .
Early life
Dennelind was born in 1969.{{cite web |author=Johan Eric Dennelind President and CEO, du |url=https://www.boardroominsiders.com/executive-profiles/1003174/TeliaSonera/Johan-Eric-Dennelind |title=Executive Profile | TeliaSonera | Johan Eric Dennelind | Customer Intelligence |publisher=Boardroominsiders.com |date= |accessdate=7 May 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He has a master's degree in Business Administration from the Örebro University, Sweden.{{cite web|author=Stocks |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=22546597&privcapId=4484556 |title=Stocks |publisher=Bloomberg |date= |accessdate=7 May 2017}}
Career
Dennelind started with Telia Company as a management trainee in 1990.
He was the CEO of Teliasonera from 2013 to 2016.{{cite web |url=http://investors.kcell.kz/en/article/show/2053?navipageId=1270 |title=Johan Dennelind appointed President and CEO of TeliaSonera | Kcell |publisher=Investors.kcell.kz |accessdate=7 May 2017 |archive-date=13 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913083707/http://www.investors.kcell.kz/en/article/show/2053?navipageId=1270 |url-status=dead }} He was then president and CEO of Telia Company, the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland until 2019.{{cite web|author=Johan Dennelind |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/7356602-johan-eric-dennelind |title=Johan Dennelind, Telia Co AB: Profile & Biography |publisher=Bloomberg News |accessdate=7 May 2017}}
In September 2019, he succeeded Osman Sultan as CEO of du, a United Arab Emirates telecom company, and departed the company a year later.{{cite news |last1=Al Lawati |first1=Abbas |title=Du appoints Johan Dennelind as new CEO |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-15/dubai-s-du-names-former-telia-executive-johan-dennelind-as-ceo |accessdate=16 September 2019 |publisher=Bloomberg News |date=15 September 2019}}
Personal life
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Category:Swedish corporate directors
Category:Swedish business executives
Category:20th-century Swedish businesspeople
Category:21st-century Swedish businesspeople
Category:Swedish chief executives
Category:Örebro University alumni
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