His expertise include Offshore Production, supervision & operation of DP Diving Support, Drilling & Cable Laying Vessels, Subsea Object Recovery, Payload Delivery and Subsea Burial Machinery for Submarine Cable Deployment . Currently, he runs the Axelsson Maritime Management, a marine contracting service company engaged in marine consulting and offshore project management . They have had several huge projects with Valero Corporation as a Pollution & Safety Adviser, where they performed marine assurance services for discharge & loading operations at terminals in the US, and with the Great Eastern Group performing project management services on near shore cable installation projects .

Previously, Captain Axelsson was the Senior Project Manager with 3U Technologies . With the company, he held sailing positions as Chief Officer and Relief Master engaged in Deepwater ROV intervention operations . His management experience has been cultivated in offshore operations of technically sophisticated vessels such as Drilling, Diving Support & Cable Laying, with the various tasks he held like the Program Management of Multi-vessel Conversion Program, the Development of a Business Process for Operations Management of a fleet of chartered cable laying vessels (which included the design, fabrication, procurement, mobilization, at-sea operations, and demobilization of a portable cable laying system to an offshore supply vessel ), and the operations management in submarine cable installation projects .

Earlier in his long career life, Captain Axelsson has handled several challenging key positions with international companies such as it International Telecom USA, Oceaneering International Inc ., Zapata Offshore Corp ., Oceantrawl Inc ., Axelsson & Johnson Co ., and Sedco-Forex Schlumberger Ltd . Through it all, he gained an in-depth first hand experience with providing Systems Engineering Support, Conceptual Design and Concept of Operations Analysis, Deepwater ROV Operation, System Documentation, Presentation and Design Reviews, Cost Projections, Scheduling, Procurement Documentation, Vendor Evaluation & Selection, System Integration & Validation, System Mobilization - Demobilization Activities and At-Sea Operations .

Captain Axelsson has a Marine Master Degree ( Open Sea & Any Gross Tonnage ). He also has Masters and Bachelors Degrees in Electrical Engineering . Further, he is a Certified Master by the USCG ( United States Cost Guard ).