Rickard Eriksson

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Rickard Ericsson, is a Swedish entrepreneur, known as the founder of an early social networking website, LunarStorm. Rickard was born 1974 on the west coast of Sweden in Varberg, county of Halland and still resides in this area.

After managing several BBS'es for seven years, in 1996 he created a web community named StajlPlejsm, renamed LunarStorm at the millennium shift. The name came from his girlfriend's nickname at StajlPlejs. LunarStorm exists today in Sweden, the United Kingdom and Denmark, and continues to grow.

Rickard has appeared many times in Swedish and international press, received numerous awards, and was appointed one of Sweden's biggest IT and telecom personalites. Rickard is also an appreciated lecturer.

In late 2006 Rickard chose to leave LunarStorm to spend his time on other projects in his own company, Bokaberg AB (http://www.bokaberg.se).