Christian Eriksson is in charge of Private 5G, MEC and Industrial solutions at Verizon Business EMEA & APAC level.
Christian is a Sr Solution Partner for 5G Acceleration, Verizon Business. He is an experienced sales leader and general manager with an aptitude for creating diverse teams and fostering global perspectives. He is responsible for catalysing the adoption and commercialization of 5G across industries and enabling rapidly scalable deployment of 5G solutions to enterprises in the EMEA and APAC. With keen knowledge of customers’ operations and unique needs, Christian and the 5G Acceleration Team use Verizon’s strength in building reliable networks and intelligent connectivity solutions to help businesses realize new capabilities, solve operational problems, and get to revenue faster.
With over 18 years of experience from the IoT and Private Networks industry, he has been working for different companies in different roles such as Verizon, 3Business Solutions, Vodafone, Tele2 IoT. Involved into various roles from building “Proof of Concept for Tele2 IoT”, Nordic CEO for a IoT company in the security industry into today’s role as Sr Solution Partner at Verizon.
Christian’s role is to promote and coordinate European and APAC projects that leverage these industrial end-to-end solutions (connectivity / Edge / applications / devices) towards strategic Verizon customers such as ports, manufacturing and logistics organisations, in line with Verizon’s global approach for such projects.
