John Gustafsson (Past Speaker)

John is Director of Human Resource for HPEs Northern Europe* geography. John is driven by a strong interest in creating a sus-tainable competitive advantage in fast moving international busi-ness environment to increase the value for the customer with a focus on culture, diversity, growing talents, accelerate perfor-mance and business development. He joined HPE 2009 and previously roles includes various HR management positions at country and region level at Ericsson, Panasonic and latest at EDS. John has planned and driven several international business transformations. At HPE he has worked as HRBP for almost all of the business units at General Western Europe level and most recently before this position held the posi-tion as Dir HRBP for the EMEA Global Account organization. John holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Sociology from The Stockholm University and a Technical College graduate diploma. He lives in Stockholm with his wife and two young daughters. Interests and focused experience areas: Talent Management, Per-formance acceleration, International employee relations, Program management, Development of Business, People and Organiza-tions. * Northern Europe GEO includes Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.