Patrik Melander, we are very happy to welcome you to the Board of Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce (SACC) in Dallas! You will be heading the Dallas chapter of SACC-Texas, can you tell us about your background? Thank you Johanna! We ...
Member Spotlight Carl Accardo, Founder and Creative Director Aeon LCC.
Houston, Texas: Carl, we are very glad to have Aeon LLC as a Business Member of SACC-Texas. In short, can you please tell us about yourself? I am originally from Baton Rouge Louisiana, but have been a resident of Sugar Land, Texas since 2008 ...
Interview with Andreas Jeppsson, Managing Director of Ecolean Inc.
Dallas, Texas: Andreas, we are glad to have Ecolean as a Business Member of SACC-Texas. In short, can you please tell us about what Ecolean does? Ecolean is a supplier of innovative and lighter packaging solutions. By using a minimal amount ...
We would like to welcome our latest hire to the Chamber
Meet Andreas Drakenberg, our new Marketing & Event Intern. Since arriving in Texas earlier this year he’s been occupied planning and coordinating events for our chapter in Austin. What’s your connection to America? I can’t say that I have one, apa ...
SACC-Dallas speaker series with Jeremy Vickers on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Start Up culture
Startup Culture, Entrepreneurship and Innovation will be the exciting theme for the next SACC Dallas Speaker Series event on June 15 at University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). We are very happy to welcome guest speaker Jeremy Vickers and a panel of ...
Interview with Gwen Workman, owner of the Scandinavian Shop Wooden Spoon in Plano
Interview with Gwen Workman owner of the Wooden Spoon, Scandinavian shop in Plano. Gwen, we are glad to have you as a Business Member of SACC-Texas. Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and your background? What made you open a Scandinavian shop ...
Meet Cilla Wichmann, Director, SACC Dallas
Cilla, tell us about yourself, who you are and your background? I am born in Miami, FL by Danish/Norwegian parents, and was taken to Sweden as an infant. Grew up and graduated in Stockholm and have also lived in Vetlanda, Marstrand (Gothenburg) and V ...
Interview with Stefan Lloyd – the New President of SACC-Texas
As of January this year, the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce (SACC) Texas has a new President. Stefan Lloyd lives in Dallas and first joined SACC in December 2011, replacing Sweden’s Vice Consul Tina Klintmalm as Vice President of SACC-Dallas. It was ...
Jarl Dahlfors – a Houston Expatriate and Future President and CEO of Loomis Group
Jarl Dahlfors is the President and CEO of Loomis U.S. and Executive Vice President of Loomis AB, the parent company of Loomis U.S., since 2009. He started working for Loomis AB in 2007 as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with prior experience as CFO of ...
Texas is Wide Open for Business – Interview with the new Vice President of SACC-Dallas
"That positive can-do attitude about Texas" Texas is continuously ranked as the best state for business and this comes as no surprise to the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce (SACC) Texas new Dallas Vice President Marcus Klintmalm. His family moved ...
Interview with Dennis Rylander – Co-Founder of Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling
Stockholmer Dennis Rylander made his American debut in Dallas at the age of 21. After getting his undergrad from UT Dallas and MBA from UT Austin McCombs business school, he turned one semester into a new home. After spending some time in San Diego, he wa ...
Interview with Henrik Facile – Bringing Swedish Punsch to America
Kronan Swedish Punsch owner Henrik Facile began creating new spirits and flavors 20 years ago in his hometown of Stockholm before moving to Texas with his wife in the 1990s. His liquid pieces of art have been praised and featured in the New York Times, Hu ...
The Story of Stockholm Krystal Vodka
Interview with Erica Swenson-Ingebrigtsen, Director of Sales and Marketing, Stockholm Imports, Inc. Who started the company and where? My father, Chet Swenson, a California entrepreneur with family ties to Sweden, formed Stockholm Imports, Inc. In th ...
Interview with Anders Eriksson, owner of Polo Tennis and Fitness Club – Austin, TX
SACCTX: Tell us about yourself and how ended up in Texas? Anders Eriksson Eriksson: I was born in Eskilstuna, Sweden but lived most of my childhood in Lidingo, a suburb outside Stockholm. I came to Texas on a tennis scholarship in 1989 and spent tw ...
Interview with Gustav Einarsson, owner of Texas Sports Academy
SACCTX: Please give us a brief describtion of your academy. Gustav Einarsson: Texas Sports Academy (below called TSA) was started in August 2010. The concept is originally from Sweden. During the spring 2011 we have our first tuition semester with p ...
Thinking Global, Acting Local
An interview with Jan Persson, CEO, Lamiflex Inc. Jan Persson, CEO of Lamiflex Inc. We recently had the pleasure to sit down with our newest business member, Jan Persson, CEO of Lamiflex Inc. Persson recently moved to Houston to take on the challe ...
From Molecules to Treatments
The Houston Chapter of Swedish Chamber Of Commerce in Texas invited to a Wine Reception featuring Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Director for the Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling at University of Houston. Jan-Åke Gustafsson, a renowned Swedish scie ...
Ola Melzig – the man behind the world’s largest scene
Ola Melzig is one of our new business members in SACC Texas. With his business partner and wife Joan, Ola runs the event production company M&M Productions. Ola has earned a stellar reputation in the global entertainment industry as technical producer ...
All About Energy!
Interview with Mats Olsson, Corporate Director of Technology at Dresser Inc. I met up with Mats Olsson at Dresser Wayne’s head quarters in Austin. Dresser Wayne is the largest division of Dresser Inc. and the area where Mats has spent most of his impr ...
Dallas Real Estate Market: Signs for promising future growth
Interview with Bo Bostrom, Realtor and Associate with Virginia Cook Realtors in Dallas, Texas. Bo is currently a Realtor for the Virginia Cook Realtors in Dallas, Texas, and provides quality services to both residential as well as commercial clientele ...
Crossing Geographical and Culinary Borders: a Swedish Chef at the Hilton
The Hilton Garden Inn in Allen receives guests from all over the world, but so far the closest they’ve come to having Swedes stay the night were two Norwegians who recently stopped by. The Swedish chef, Jan Loov, is hoping this will change, especially con ...
Changing the Game in Executive Recruitment
A successful business is formed from a blend of 3 key ingredients: an innovative product, a viable business plan, and the right people. "People are the secret to the sauce," says Swedish native Bjorn Kirchdorfer, Partner at Top Gun Ventures (www.topgu ...
SACC-Texas assists NASA with Space Station broadcast
How did a small Swedish owned consulting and translation firm get to work with NASA? You guessed it SACC-Texas. We helped with connecting the parties for the live Swedish/English simultaneous translation that took place during the Discovery/ISS 128 flight ...