Jan Stenberg is a Swedish

Sweden

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 businessperson

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 and current Chairman of the Board

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 of Stepstone

Stepstone

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, Cygate Måldata, Service Factory, Marratech

Marratech

Marratech is a Swedish company that makes software for e-meetings .Marratech was founded in 1998, as a spin-off company from the at the Luleå University of Technology. Founders include Dr. Dick Schefström, Dr. Peter Parnes, Johnny Widén, Dr...

, Spring Mobil, Q-matic and Tific.

Stenberg was education with a law degree

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 from the University of Stockholm in 1964, and joined Ericsson

Ericsson

Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...

 in 1967. He held a number of positions in Ericsson including Vice President

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 before being hired as Chief Executive Officer

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 of SAS Group

SAS Group

Scandinavian Airlines System Aktiebolag , trading as SAS Group and SAS AB, is a holding company based in Solna, Sweden. It is the parent company of the airlines Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe, and the aviation services companies SAS Business Opportunities, SAS Cargo Group, SAS Ground...

 in 1994, a position he held until 2001. He was also Chairman of TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera

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 (1999–2000), and was announced as Chairman of the would-be merger between Telia and Telenor

Telenor

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, had the merger not failed.