Ingvar Eriksson is the founder and former CEO of Novator AB, commercializing a new drilling technology known as orbital drilling in the aerospace industry.
He started his career at Saab Aerospace as R&D engineer in aircraft design. From there he pursued an academic career at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden for 10 years before devoting his life to the start-up Novator.
Ingvar is since 2011 Business Creation Officer at InnoEnergy Scandinavia, responsible for the Accelerator program in Scandinavia helping entrepreneurs in the energy sector to turn their ideas into commercial successes.