Per Einar Dybvik
CEO ASPIRO MUSIC/WIMP
Managing Director of Wimp Music Norway and Head of Product & Marketing in Aspiro. WiMP is a music streaming service with millions of songs for computers, tablets and smartphones available in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Prior to joining Aspiro, Mr Dybvik held various management positions in the mobile entertainment provider Schibsted Mobile, CEO/Founder of Web consultancy company, Director of Product Development at Scandinavia Online, Head of Online Services in Telenor Media and 6 years at the Research Lab of Telenor.
Hjalmar Winbladh
CEO Wrapp
Hjalmar is an acclaimed serial entrepreneur. In 1994 he founded his first mobile internet company Sendit that later was acquired by Microssoft. Hjalmar took the position as GM of Microsoft’s Mobile Internet Business Unit. In 2006 he founded the Mobile VoIP provider Rebtel where he today is chairman. Hjalmar is also board member, co-founder and senior advisor for several international businesses. Furthermore he is an advisor in early stage investments for Creandum and late stage investments for EQT.
John Lunn
Director of Innovation, Paypal
John has been building payments and anti-fraud systems on the internet for over 15 years and has advised many of the successful and less successful start-ups on their payment strategies. Originally a java certified developer and now an all purpose hacker and Seedcamp mentor. John runs PayPal new developer network PayPal X in the EU.
Paul Lucier
Managing Director RIM
Paul Lucier is the Managing Director of Northern Europe & Russia at Research In Motion Limited overseeing BlackBerry business operations in these regions, sales offices in Poland, Russia and Sweden and relations with regional mobile operators and ecosystem partners. In his previous role, Paul was the Vice President of Global Carriers managing business operations and initiating partnerships in emerging markets throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining RIM in 1999, Paul held positions in business development for Coca-Cola Enterprises.
Jonas Hombert
Manager Software Development RIM (founder of Jaycut)
Jonas Hombert was CEO and co-founder of JayCut, a company developing cloud based video editing tools. Recognized as having the best online video editor by everyone from Oprah to Google, the company was acquired by RIM in July 2011. Today Jonas continues to head the former JayCut team, creating the next generation of video editing tools for mobile devices. Jonas has previously been elected as one of the top 20 young entrepreneurs in Europe by BusinessWeek, among other awards.
Ludvig Linge
Strategic Business Development Manager RIM/TAT
Ludvig is co-founder of TAT, The Astonishing Tribe, the leading mobile user interface company that was acquired by RIM in December 2010. At TAT, Ludvig was CEO until 2006, and then he worked with various innovation and business development initiatives. Now, within RIM, Ludvig and the rest of the TAT crew are fully focused on creating innovations and designs related to mobile user experiences and user interfaces for future RIM products.
Henric Ehrenblad
Chairman and Founder of the ad network Widespace
Henric has a long international career in telecommunications from California, China, Australia and Sweden, left the Ericsson Group in 2007 to co-found Widespace with Patrik Fagerlund.
Widespace delivers millions of SEK every month to Swedish app developers by selling the ad space to large advertisers. The ads are delivered in apps and mobile sites, and Widespace has it’s own smart ad serving technology, optimizing the effect and results for both app developers and advertisers.
Richard Savage
Director of Business Development, Qualcomm
As Director Business Development at Qualcomm Europe, Richard is responsible for Scandinavia, and the Baltic States. Richard joined Qualcomm in April 2004. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Richard has held similar positions for the last nine years at Ericsson Telecom AB and at Appload AB in Sweden. Richard has also recently been named Managing Director of the Qualcomm Sweden Branch which he holds in conjunction with his Business Development role.
Andreas Bernström
Andreas is the CEO of Rebtel
Rebtel is the world’s largest independent mobile VoIP provider with over 10 million users. Prior to Rebtel, Andreas was COO of the social media and technology company Taptu and also the COO of ad network TradeDoubler, where he was responsible for 600+ employees and more than $500 million in revenues. Prior to that Andreas spent three years at Goldman Sachs.
Magnus Melander [MODERATOR]
With his 29 years in the business, Magnus Melander is an oldtimer in IT and Communications. He has been at IBM, Apple, 3Com and most recently at the wireless centric VC BrainHeart Capital. Magnus has held numerous executive positions in general management, sales, marketing, service and support, developer relations and business development. With his extensive board experience, he is often seen as a speaker or chairing at industry conferences and events. During the past five years, Magnus has worked as a self-employed entrepreneur and independent consultant, and has recently launched a new M2M consulting company, B3IT Connect Compute (B3CC).
