Ulf Jinnestrand is a global leader in the development of distributed simulation Command Post exercises in support of Peacekeeping and Peace Support Operations.
Ulf lives in the Vaxholm archipelago in Sweden. He joined the Swedish Marines in 1980. He has served within the Amphibious Forces, in various platoon, company, battalion, brigade and Amphibious Warfare assignments. He was heavily involved in the development of the Maritime C4I capabilities and its implementation to the Amphibious Forces Centre. In 1996, he established the Marines first Training and Simulation Center, planning and executing a high number of exercises and the methods of command and control.
Through the years he has served overseas in Middle East, Caucasus and the Balkans for almost four years in various assignments, all from Squad and Platoon Leader, Duty Officer, Ops Officer, UN Observer, Military Assistant and Key Leader Training Officer.
In 1997, he was assigned to the Swedish International Training Centre – SWEDINT and established the Peace Support Operations Gaming Facility. The concept brought new capabilities in mission rehearsal, in to theatre and supporting forces overseas. In 1998, he designed together with the U.S. OSD and the US Joint Forces Command Joint War Fighting Center, the buildup of the NATO Partnership for Peace Simulation Network which proofed principles at the NATO Washington Summit demonstration in 1999, together with the VIKING distributed computer assisted exercise in late 1999 followed by a number of international exercises.
Ulf has been the continuity through the thirteen years of the Swedish and U.S. collaboration in building partner capacity. He has been the main Swedish sponsor of the development of the Persistent Partner Simulation Network Capacity.
In 2004, he was assigned to the Swedish Defense War gaming Centre as the Head of training concept development and became the main innovator of Training, Simulation and Advanced Distributed Learning in the Swedish Armed Forces and the international collaboration.
In 2008, he was assigned to the Supreme Commander Staff Department of Development as the Head of Training, Modeling and Simulation development in the Swedish Armed Forces. He was the Swedish Government representative in the NATO Modeling & Simulation Group and in the ITEC committee until 2010.
Through the years, Ulf has learned a unique experience of how to concept develop methods, planning, execution, evaluation, techniques, technical integration, synchronization and interoperability within Warfighters and Civil Military Relations Training. The most recent military assignment was as Assistant Chief of Staff Synchronization and Integration in the Coalition and Civil-Military Computer Assisted Exercise VIKING 11. The outcome of VIKING 11 was an extraordinary great success for many years of Ulf’s concept development and a “Grand finale” of thirty years of military career.
Today as a Vice President and Director for Global Distributed Simulations, Ulf is bringing expertise, knowledge and a comprehensive network to the development of the Global Strategic Analysis, LLC network of partners and friends.