Biographical Information.

  My Personal Strengths | My Personal Values

"O Great Spirit, Grant Me the Wisdom to Walk in Another Indian's Moccasins."

Since there might be one or two out there who is actually interested in who I am as a person, I want to make a short description about who I am, and present my personal values. For those who are interested in religions, I am actually a Lutheran, as are most Swedes.  I want to add that I am also interested in culture and politics. I often feel semi-American, semi-British, semi-Norwegian, and so on. I suppose, in effect it makes me a global citizen.

It all started in the County of Värmland, Sweden where I had the most cordial and idyllic upbringing imaginable. From then on we were moving to the County of Närke, Sweden, when I was ten. Furthermore, I have been studying and done my military service at several places and have been moving around in the middle and northern Sweden. For the moment, I am living in a town in the county of Dalarna, where my maternal grandparents stem from. My paternal grandparents stem from the County of Värmland, Sweden.

I am afraid I was not much of swot during my school years, but more the easy-going "Jock" type. I tried quite a few sports before I settled with sports shooting, in which I was fairly successful (District Champion among other Successes). Even though I was not a swot, I was kind of a "geek" type and took great interest in science, stocks and computers, from an early age. There was nothing that could stop me from ending up with a Masters Degree in Science , which I did in 1993. My MSc in Computational Finance is well under way.

I am not going to dwell upon my academic achievements, but want to describe my private side a little bit further, and among my hobbies and interests are all kinds of sports and collectibles. I am also progressively more and more interested in various kinds of cultural subjects such as architecture, interior design, history, and literature.

I am a physical person in a double sense of meaning, because  I am not only a physical engineer, but also quite a regular runner, and keen on other physical activities including tennis and golf (baseball still to be tried out).

Since I am after all 35 years old, I suppose you expect me to be married and having children, and family. However, I am actually single, even though I am far from the eternal bachelor type. I am just a slow starter, who need time to mature. Furthermore, the circumstances has not been ideal for settling down, since I have been having certain difficulties getting a decent job. So at the moment I am more or less making a living as a private investor combined with my upstart company, which does not exactly make me the perfect match for serious relationships.


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Last updated: 10/19/01.