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Leadership Team
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Sebastian Nyström, Head of Trolltech Sebastian Nyström is responsible for overseeing Trolltech’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations. Prior to his role with Trolltech, Sebastian was Director of Technology Strategy at Nokia. He was responsible for strategy topics on technology with business impact across devices and services. Recently he has lead business and technology strategy projects in the areas of wireless broadband access, software platforms and digital rights management. Sebastian has also responsible for leading new and innovative early stage technology projects within Nokia. In this role he was responsible for a wide range of activities ranging early stage technology selection and market making to standardization and commercialization. Sebastian joined Nokia in 2003 from McKinsey & Company, a management consultancy, where he was leading strategy projects. Sebastian holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Helsinki University of Technology. |
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Juha Seppä - Director, Trolltech Integration Juha Seppä is responsible for integration of Trolltech to Nokia. He is leading a team of experts whose responsibility is to ensure successful and smooth operation of Trolltech as a unit within Nokia. With sixteen years of experience within Nokia, and through holding key roles in R&D, marketing, business development, network design, sales and terminal software platforms business, Juha Seppä has developed broad understanding of the mobile business. Juha Seppä received Master of Science degree in software engineering in 1994 at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. His leisure time interests include various sporting activities with his two children, home cinema, and reading. |
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Knut Stålen, Director of Finance Knut Stålen joined Trolltech in January 2001. He is responsible for Trolltech's finances worldwide, and for investor relations. Knut has wide experience of finance with an international focus. He has worked for a number of companies, including a one year posting to China where he built up the finance and logistic functions for a factory in Ningxia. He graduated from the Norwegian School of Management BI. He lives in Oslo with his wife and children. |
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Benoit Schillings, Chief Technologist
Benoit joined Trolltech in October 2005 serving as Chief Technologist responsible for leveraging Trolltech's existing technologies and services in addition to strengthening the company's ability to bring new technologies quickly to market. Mr. Schillings was a principal contributor to the launch of Be Incorporated, where he designed, developed and implemented the technically acclaimed BeOS. More recently, Schillings comes to Trolltech from his position as CTO at Openwave Systems where he was responsible for the structure, design and operation of Openwave Phone Suite Version 7. In 2003, he was named Distinguished Engineer for his influential work in the conception of "top to bottom" integrated software for mass-market phones. Benoit attend UCL in Belgium and has a B.S in Computer Science. When not on a plane, Benoit enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters and working on robotic telescopes. |
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Chuck Piercey, Director of Product Management
Chuck joined Trolltech in August 2007 serving as VP Product Management at Trolltech's offices in Redwood City, CA. Mr. Piercey comes to Trolltech from his position as Senior Director at Business Objects Labs in France. He is a seasoned executive skilled at leading cross-functional team to deliver innovative products. He has extensive experience in strategy, marketing, business management and product management for highly technical software and hardware products. Chuck has a B.A. from Stanford University and a MBA from Anderson School of Management. He currently resides with his familiy in Silicon Valley. |
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Tom Miller, Director of Worldwide Sales |
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Daniel Kihlberg Pallejà, Director of Worldwide Marketing Daniel joined Trolltech in January 2008. Daniel brings more than 15 years of global marketing and product management experience from several industries to Trolltech. Daniel started his career at the Swedish Foreign Office before moving on to marketing products under brands such as Siemens, Ericsson, AEG, Electrolux, GN Netcom and Jabra. At Siemens Mobile Devices he played a key role in defining SL45, the world’s first mobile phone with mp3-player, as well as building the Siemens brand as VP of Global Marketing Communications. Daniel is a Tele-technique engineer and an intelligence officer in the Swedish army reserve. He has a M.Sc. in Business Administration and International Economics from Linköping University enriched with executive education from the Harvard Business School and the Wharton school in the U.S.A. Daniel speaks six languages. Daniel enjoys outdoor activities in his spare time. |
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Dr. Karsten Homann, Director of Professional Services
Dr. Karsten Homann joined Trolltech in January 2006. He is responsible for Trolltech’s professional services organization (PSO). Karsten manages all aspects of Trolltech’s training, support, engineering integration and consultancy services. Karsten has over ten years of experience in various management positions in the mobile and embedded devices industry. He comes to Trolltech from his former role as Vice President Next Generation and Vice President Software at Siemens Mobile Device, where he was also managing the global business of introducing a portfolio of highly innovative products. Karsten holds a PhD. in computer science from University of Karlsruhe, Germany. A German national, he lives between Oslo, Beijing, Palo Alto, Brisbane and Munich. |
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Lars Knoll, Director of Engineering
Lars Knoll joined Trolltech in July 2000. He is responsible for Trolltech's Engineering organization with engineering teams in Oslo, Berlin and Brisbane. Lars has had different roles in Trolltech's engineering organization, working his way up from software engineer to leading the engineering team in Oslo as Director before taking over the role as VP of Engineering. Lars has been an active member of the KDE community and the architect behind KDE's html rendering engine KHTML. KHTML has later been taken by Apple and used as foundation for their browser Safari and the WebKit open source project. Lars holds a PhD in physics from the University of Heidelberg. A German national, he lives with his family in Oslo. |
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Sven Kinden Iversen,Director of HR and Administration
Sven Kinden Iversen joined Trolltech in August 2005. Sven manages recruitment, organizational and personnel development within Trolltech, as well as having the responsibility for IT and administration. Sven has 20 years years of experience within human resources, corporate internal audit and executive search. He is a graduate from the Norwegian Naval Academy. Sven lives in Oslo. |
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Cathrine Bore, General Councel Cathrine Bore joined Trolltech in December 2000. She is responsible for overseeing Trolltech's worldwide legal work, and serves as secretary to the Trolltech Board of Directors. Prior to joining Trolltech, she worked at Storebrand Investments, where her main responsibility was helping to establish international presence for Storebrand's socially responsible investment products. Before that, she worked with research at an executive search firm. Cathrine's experience includes computer software contract and license agreement drafting and negotiation, intellectual property rights strategy and management, as well as general corporate law. In her free time, she volunteers for Youth for Understanding, an international youth exchange organization, where she has served as National Chairman as well as member of its International Advisory Council. Cathrine graduated with a law degree from University of Oslo, Norway, with special focus on information technology law and EU law. |