Roger Akelius is a Swedish business magnate. He is the founder of Akelius Residential Property AB, one of Europe's largest real estate companies. Early life and education. Akelius grew up in Stora Mellby, a small village located between Trollhättan and Alingsås. At eleven, he started his first job at a dairy farm. Akelius worked at IBM Svenska as a system engineer, teacher, and salesman after having studied engineering and mathematics at Lund University. In 1968, he became Sweden's youngest lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
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