Investor AB

he was on the board of the biggest investor in Eric.

He was the investor AB, yeah.

So he'd been involved with it for a long time.

And it's

Joining us in this conversation is Jeff Walker.

He's Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions at BraunAbility, a company that builds wheelchair accessible vehicles founded 55 years ago in an Indiana garage by Ralph Braun and now owned by the Swedish patient capital Berkshire-like investor called Investor AB.

Jeff was educated at Yale and studied at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.

He studied under the legendary endowment investor David Swenson, and that shaped how he thinks of strategy.

He put together a van that allowed him to drive his wheelchair up a ramp and into the back of it to behind the steering wheel and go to work.

And that led to where we are today.

As you can see, if you look at our owner's annual report, we're part of Investor AB, a large Swedish multinational with holdings really across most of the investment sectors, including the NASDAQ, just to put a fine point on investments.

But they also have a private equity arm, Patricia Industries.