Leif Lundblad started his first company at the age of seventeen. Since then he has started some ten companies and created thousands of jobs. He has over 300 patents within a wide range of areas. Leif Lundblad's companies and innovations can be found in business areas such as radio and television, excavators, blasting, gardening, facade washing, sky-lifts, back treatment tables, air-conditioned shoes, pancake machines, combustion engines and pharmaceuticals.
Leif Lundblad's biggest success is Inter Innovation, a world-leading manufacturer of note handling equipment. He is chairman of the board and the main owner of BANQIT, a company specialised in note handling equipment and software for banks.
Leif Lundblad is also a keen debater and a popular speaker with a special interest in the welfare of Swedish entrepreneurs and small businesses. To increase the knowledge and understanding for the needs of small businesses, he seized the opportunity to start a new research institute - ESBRI - in 1996.