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Laurent Leksell (born in 1952) is a Swedish PhD Economics, international business leader and entrepreneur.

With his father, Lars, Laurent Leksell jointly founded Elekta AB in 1972, while he was still a student of the Stockholm School of Economics to exploit the Gamma Knife his father had invented.^[1] Elekta is a Swedish med-tech enterprise specialised in the treatment of cancer and neurosurgical conditions.

Tomas puusepp biography

Laurent Leksell held the role of CEO of Elekta between 1972 and 2005. Today he is Chairman of the Board and a principal shareholder of the company listed on the OMX Stockholm Stock Exchange.^[2]

Biography

Born in Lund, Sweden, Leksell is second youngest of five children of Professor Lars Leksell (1907–1986), professor in neurosurgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Lars Leksell invented the Gamma knife for radiation therapy, which became the genesis of Elekta AB. Laurent Leksell's mother was born Ludmilla Soboutian (1912–1