Mr. Ahlsand is General Partner in Northzone Ventures, and serves as board member in several high growth technology companies. Prior to Northzone, Mr Ahlsand was VP Corporate Finance in Handelsbanken Securities and a corporate development executive in Orkla ASA. He also has a professional technical background as a research scientist at CERN outside Geneva and as a telecommunications engineer in NERA Telecom. Torleif Ahlsand holds a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from NTNU (1991) and an MBA with Honors from IMD in Switzerland (1997). http://www.northzone.com/
Steinar Fossen, Board Member
Mr. Fossen is Investment Director of Investinor and has held several key positions in companies like Ernst & Young and Kongsberg Maritime. Steinar Fossen has also founded several other companies, and he holds a Ph.D in Business Administration from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a Master of Science degree from Høyskolen i Bodø. He has supplementary education from SRI (Stanford Research Insitute)/Stanford University in USA. Academic work focus on areas such as new product development, venture start-ups and commercialization of new technology. http://www.investinor.no/
Daniel Artusi, Board Member
Mr. Artusi has more than 33 years experience and has been an independent consultant since April 2008, and is currently an operating executive with Golden Gate Capital since September 2009. He is also board member in several technology companies worldwide. Mr. Artusi has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a board member of Conexant Systems Inc., as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coldwatt Inc., as the President of Silicon Laboratories Inc., as the Chief Executive Officer and as a board member of Silicon Laboratories, and as Chief Operating Officer of Silicon Laboratories. Prior to joining Silicon Laboratories, Mr. Artusi held various management and executive positions at Motorola Inc. Mr. Artusi studied electronics engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) in Argentina.
Daniel Hoste, Board Member
Mr. Daniel Hoste has over 40 years experience from the high tech industry, and has developed an extensive experience in microcontrollers as well as in sales and marketing. Most recently he was President and CEO of Tundra Semiconductor, and prior to this he served as Vice President and General Manager of the 8- and 16-bit microcontroller division of Freescale Semiconductor, and as Vice President and Director of marketing and sales for Motorola's Wireless & Mobile Systems Group (WMSG). Mr. Hoste joined Motorola in 1989 and has since accrued a range of global operational experience, including running a division in Europe. Mr Hoste also held positions in international sales and marketing management at Motorola Semiconductor, serving all market segments of the semiconductor industry. Mr Hoste has worked at Advanced Micro Devices, managing the Southern Europe field applications team and regional sales, and in research and development positions at Royal Philips Electronics, ITT Industries, Inc. and The Thomson Corporation. Mr. Hoste completed Graduation in Engineering from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France in 1979.
Geir Førre, Board Member
Geir Førre has more than 18 years of semiconductor industry experience spanning research, development, marketing and management. He founded Energy Micro in 2007 and was previously a co-founder of Chipcon, being its President and CEO from its beginning in 1996 until August 2007. Geir led Chipcon’s development from its inception as a design house to becoming the market leader in low-power RF solutions a decade later. Chipcon was acquired by Texas Instruments in January 2006 for US$200 million. Geir holds a MSEE from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.
Øyvind Janbu, Board Member
Øyvind Janbu co-founded Energy Micro in 2007 and has been the company's CTO since its inception. He has more than 12 years semiconductor industry experience, covering research, development and management. Øyvind previously held key positions with Chipcon, working on digital and analog design, embedded microcontroller design and ZigBee software. He was a contributing editor for the IEEE 802.15.4-2006 wireless PAN standard and holds an MSEE from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.
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