Jan Hellaker

Vice President, Transport Solutions & Services

Name variants:
Janet Hellaker, Janice Hellaker, Jennifer Hellaker
Last updated Feb 18, 2024

Contact Information

Last Update
Jan 29, 2016
Location
Santa Ana, CA

Workplace

Volvo Group Trucks Technology
Vice President, Transport Solutions & Services

Industry

Automotive

Work History

Vice President, Transport Solutions & Services

USA, Sweden, France, India
Global responsibility for the Volvo Group's research and advance engineering activities in the field of Transport Solutions & Services, including areas such as Connected Vehicles, Automa...
from Oct 2012

VP Business Development & Government Programs

Responsible for Volvo Technology's business development; and coordination of the Volvo Group's participation in external R&D programs in North America.
Jul 2007 — Sep 2012

Senior Vice President, Telematics

General Manager for the SeaKey service business ("OnStar for boats"). Coordinated implementation with the company's development teams in India and Singapore.
Sep 2005 — Jul 2007

Chief Telematics Officer

Global business and technical responsibility for the SeaKey service (www.myseakey.com). In Aug 2005 this business was outsourced to one of Volvo's vendors, MobiApps.
Oct 2003 — Sep 2005

CEO

Short-term assignment to keep the company financially afloat while it was being put up for sale by its main owner (Volvo).
May 2003 — Oct 2003

CEO

Grew the company from scratch to being an established supplier of telematics services to the automotive OEM industry; with a presence on three continents.
Dec 1999 — Oct 2002

President

Established Volvo Technology's first site outside of Sweden.
Dec 1997 — Dec 1999

Director

Created a new division that offers telematics SW/HW development to customers inside and outside of the Volvo Group. The entity was grown from a one-man operation, into a multi-million dollar...
Sep 1986 — Dec 1999

Manager

Responsible for Systems Verification and Global Advanced Support of Ericsson's OSS products
Feb 1979 — Sep 1986

Occupations

Executive
Vice President
Vice President of Marketing
Chief Executive

Skills

Telematics
Automotive
Business Development
Product Management
Program Management
Product Development
Business Strategy
Start-ups
Management
Team Building
Six Sigma
Operations Management
Change Management
Engineering
B2B
Strategic Planning
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