We are excited to introduce three new members to the SACC Houston board, all bringing fresh insights, ideas, and inspiration from Malmö and Skåne. Please join us in welcoming Ilona Kiebler, Mikael Olsen, and Siavosh Derakhti. Ilona Kiebler: Ilona Kiebl ...
Meet Estelle Klavberg: Our New Marketing Intern for Fall 2023
We are excited to introduce Estelle Klavberg, the newest addition to our SACC Texas team. Estelle, a talented Swedish Advertising and Marketing Communications student has joined us as a Marketing Intern for the fall of 2023. Originally hailing from the ...
PRESS RELEASE: Sustainable Transition – a new industry event in Houston focusing on green innovations from Sweden and Texas
PRESS RELEASE Sustainable Transition – a new industry event in Houston focusing on green innovations from Sweden and Texas HOUSTON (February 7, 2023) – The new SACC Texas industry event, Sustainable Transition, brings together Sweden and Texas – spe ...
Welcome, Fanny Christoffersson, new intern at SACC Texas!
Fanny Christoffersson is joining SACC Texas as a new Marketing and Events Intern, effective in January 2023. On Fanny's behalf, we are also looking for an internship at one of our member companies somewhere in Texas starting asap in 2023. What is y ...
Swedish American Chambers of Commerce Annual Meetings and Conference “SACC Summit”
Photographer: Åsa Johansson Bagley FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – PRESS RELEASE Swedish American Chambers of Commerce Annual Meetings and Conference "SACC Summit" Washington, D.C., November 7, 2022 --- The Swedish American Chambers of Commerce, Inc., SA ...
SACC USA Business Survey, October 2022:
PRESS RELEASE The mid-term elections will be a thriller says new survey from SACC USA Donald Trump will run in the next presidential election in 2024, but he will not face President Joe Bi ...
Meet Victoria Andersen new board member at SACC Houston
Victoria is taking on the role of Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Partnerships. From that platform, she would like to jointly create new business opportunities for Sweden and Swedes in this great hub and promote Swedish culture to the ...
Interesting and important insights from the SACC Texas Survey 2022 Report
Earlier this spring, SACC Texas conducted a Survey led by SACC Houston Vice Chair, Johanna Miceli. Here you can take part of the whole report or just read the executive summary. Executive summary: We need to recruit 18–25-year-old people. Th ...
Member Spotlight: Christopher Westerlund with Matica Biotechnology
Meet Christopher Westerlund a native from Gothenburg working with Korean company Matica Biotechnology in College City. Could you tell us a bit about Matica Biotechnology and what you do? Manica Biotechnology is a contract development and manufactur ...
Meet Baxley Miceli, a Skåne-American moving back to Houston
Baxley Miceli is Manager for Great IT, an IT infrastructure, network and client management company, based in Houston. But before that Baxley lived in Malmö, Sweden for almost twenty years. Here he tells us a bit about the biggest differences between doing ...
Carl Stenberg, a new Board Member in Houston, will work with SACC-USA Talent Mobility Program
Carl Stenberg, a new board member in Houston, will work with SACC-USA Talent Mobility Program. Being a young Private Equity lawyer in the Houston, Carl Stenberg is looking forward to work with the SACC-USA Talent Mobility program and start going to the ...
SACC Houston’s new Board Member, Robert Moreno
With a background as CRM Manager for Microsoft Sweden and current Corporate eCommerce Manager for Weatherford, Robert Moreno will look into SACC Texas digital framework. Meet SACC Houston’s new Board Member Robert Moreno, who also claims to be an avid cra ...
Gary Bruce from PDI
“The Lone Star State is the favorite choice for many Swedish companies coming to the U.S.” PDI, Prosperity Developers International is a consulting firm with presence in Florida, North Carolina and Texas, specializing in helping Swedish companies co ...
Member Spotlight: Chase Poole at Eco Works
Eco Works thinks it's important to have international trade with countries like Sweden Eco Works from Houston is a full service provider for outdoor needs, building pools, but also other outdoor structures. Chase Poole is the COO of Eco Works, and he app ...
Meet Göran Haag, CEO and Founder of Champion Fiberglass
- A Legendary Member and the Founder of SACC Texas Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your career path? I am born in Stockholm, Sweden. After graduating chemical engineering from RIT (or as we say in Swedish, civilingenjör i kemi ...
1080 Motion – Delivering Swedish Sports Science to the Global Stage
The following article was copied from the SACC-USA website. The original article may be found here. Attacking the final hurdle of the 400m finals at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, American track athlete Dalilah Muhammad had only one ho ...
Member Spotlight – Patrick Juthberg, Carable
Can you tell us a bit about yourself, what do you do? My name is Patrick Juthberg and I am from Sweden. I have a fantastic family with five great grown up children and three grandchildren. My family is still in Sweden, but my fantastic l ...
An Interview with Gustaf Rabe, Business Development Manager at Tetra Pak
Can you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Gustaf Rabe, and I am responsible for the business development team for USA and Canada. I am from Gothenburg, Sweden, and I have worked at Tetra Pak for 17 years -- 14 of those have been based in De ...
Member Spotlight: Paul Mikkelsen, CEO Aptilo Networks
Paul Mikkelsen, CEO Aptilo Networks. Aptilo was founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2001 as a spin-off from Axis Communications. Today the company employs just under 100 people in four offices around the world. There are eleven employees working in the li ...
SACC-Texas Member Julia Loennegren about Starting Her Own Company in the USA
Julia Loennegren was born and raised on a farm in the south Sweden and has been in Houston for five and a half years. She is now working with her own start up and we had a chance to get a moment to chat about her story: Julia Loennegren, Co-Founder of ...
Member Spotlight: SACC-Texas new Business Member Sweedie Kids
Sandra Metoyer and Therese Marchant, founders of Sweedie Kids and new members of SACC-Texas. We met with Sandra Metoyer and Therese Marchant, the founders of Sweedie Kids and new members of SACC-Texas. Both Sandra and Therese grew up in Sweden but go ...
Member Spotlight: Johanna Evertson Camargo and One Picture One Moment
Johanna Evertson Camargo recently started her company One Picture One Moment which offers photography services for different events and occasions. Those of you who attended SACC-Dallas’ April 10th event at Texas Instruments probably recognize Johanna, thi ...
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 ...
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 ...