Retired from his position as the president of Industrifonden (Swedish Industrial Development Fund) in early 2005, Dr Öjefors was a professional expert in the investment funding of private equity and venture capital markets. Functioning as a major player in the Swedish venture capital market, Industrifonden was set up as a foundation by the Swedish government in 1979 to finance Swedish companies and help them grow. Industrifonden is involved as a owner in ore than 200 companies. Prior to joining Industrifonden, Dr Öjefors held key leadership positions at Axel Johnson AB and NYDO Co with interests in the energy and environment sectors. He received his PhD in Chemical Technology from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, KTH) in 1975. Today, Dr Öjefors continues to play an active role in the Swedish industrial and research sectors and holds a number of board appointments. He chairs a fuel cells research program under MISTRA, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. He is initiator and former chairman of Connect Sweden, an organization that links entrepreneurs to resources and network essential for growing a business. Dr. Öjefors is also a member of the Royal Academy For Engineering Sciences.

Dr Anders Hult received his master's degree in Chemical Engineering in 1978 and his PhD in Polymer Technology in 1982 from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, KTH). He joined the Department of Polymer Technology at KTH as research associate (1984-1986) and associate professor (1986). Shortly after in 1988, he attained full professor status. Between 1999 and 2004, Dr Hult served as Dean of the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at KTH. He was also a visiting professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1993 and University of Texas, Austin, USA in 2004. He has published over 200 papers and has successfully filed 9 patents. Professor Hult has a wide experience of synthesis of tailored polymer systems for thin film applications. The main field of expertise lies within advanced polymer synthesis and how to correlate relationships between molecular structure and architecture versus macroscopical user properties.

Mats Wallnér has a M.Sc. in chemical engineering and MBA. In the beginning of 1980, he worked in the Alfa-Laval group as development engineer and later responsible for project design and start-up of fermentation facilities and later on as sales engineer for fermentation facilities with responsibility for several international markets, primarily the United States. Mats had also taken on the reliability as business area manager for food, chemicals and cellulose industries in North and South America for the AGA group. During 2,5 years he was managing director for a Science Park, Stockholms Teknikhöjd AB with a business strategy to support and develop newly started companies basically coming from Universities.

Dr Eva Malmström received her master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 1991 and her PhD in Polymer Technology in 1996 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. After that she spent 12 months as a post-doctoral fellow at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose CA before joining the Department of Polymer Technology. In 2005, she was appointed full professor and was appointed the head of Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology 2005-2008. In 2008, she was appointed vice president for student recruitment at KTH. She has published nearly 100 papers and she is co-inventor of two patents. She was awarded the Arthur Dolittle Award (American Chemical Society) in 1997 and received the Tage Erlander’s Award in 2003 (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). Professor Malmström’s main research interests are polymer chemistry especially‘ controlled’ polymerization, dendritic polymers, macromolecular architecture and the interplay between structure – properties.

Michael Malkoch received his PhD in Polymer Technology in 2003 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Between 2003 and 2005, Dr Malkoch conducted a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, IBM Almaden Research Center and finally the Materials Research Laboratory in Santa Barbara (UCSB). Upon his return he was awarded the distinguished Assist. Professor fellowship in material science from the Swedish Council and has now joined the Division of Coating Technology at KTH. Dr Malkoch has a vast "know how" experience with focus in the synthesis of well-defined polymers and their final tuning to fit the choice of application. His main field of interest are the construction of complex dendritic and other macromolecular architectures, living-controlled polymerizations, hydrogels, nano-particles and coatings for a variety of industries.