Biography

Solveig M. Ward received her M.S.E.E. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden in 1977.  The same year she joined ABB Relays.  She has held many positions in Marketing, Application, and Product Management.  Assignments include a six-month period in Montreal, Canada and two years in Mexico. When Ms. Ward returned to Sweden, she was application responsible for the development of a numerical distance protection relay and in charge of marketing the product.  After transferring to ABB in the US 1992, she was involved in numerical distance protection application design, and was Product Manager for ABB's line of current differential and phase comparison relays.
Solveig has written, co-authored and presented several technical papers at Protective Relaying Conferences.  She is a member of IEEE and holds one patent, "High Speed Single Pole Trip Logic".
In June 2002, Solveig joined RFL Electronics Inc. as Director of Product Marketing.