Åke Rusck
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

John Åke J:son Rusck (9 August 1912 – 24 September 1978) was a
Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
businessman. He was CEO of Sweden's major state
hydro power Hydropower (from el, ὕδωρ, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by converting the gravitational potential or kinetic energy of a wa ...
company
Vattenfall Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational power company owned by the Swedish State. Beyond Sweden, the company generates power in Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The company's name is Swedish for "waterfall", and ...
between 1948 and 1957 and then CEO of the
SAS Group SAS AB (Scandinavian Airlines System Aktiebolag), trading as SAS Group, is an airline holding company headquartered in the SAS Frösundavik Office Building in Solna Municipality, Sweden. It is the owner of the airlines Scandinavian Airlines and S ...
from 1958 to 1961.Åke Rusck in ''Vem är det'' 1969
/ref> He was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which promo ...
in 1950.


References

1912 births 1978 deaths SAS Group people Swedish airline chief executives Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences People from Valdemarsvik Municipality 20th-century Swedish businesspeople {{Sweden-business-bio-stub