Chairman of the board
Christian Nejstgaard
Manager, Information Management, HP Software, GWE
Previous positions
Sales Director, SAS Institute
Vice President, Wendia International AG
Managing Director, StorageTek in Denmark and Sweden
Other activities
Chairman of the Board, BodyMind Company
Chairman of the Board, Forward IT
Chairman of the Board, NCI A/S
Education
Executive MBA Certificat 2003, Tulane University
Contact: nejst@smartsharesystems.com
Board Members
John J Roese
Founder, ICT Advisory Group
John is an industry recognized Chief Technology Officer and thought leader with a history of running and improving both focused and extremely large R&D organizations. Having served as CTO at four large corporations in the telecom and IT sector over the past two decades (Nortel, Broadcom, Enterasys and Cabletron), John has developed a broad understanding of the total ICT ecosystem and its diverse global customer base. In addition to his roles as CTO, John has been a Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer in publicly traded companies. John currently runs ICT Advisory Group LLC advising private equity and Venture groups and incubating technology startup companies. John’s Blog is found at http://theICTOptimist.com
Valdemar Børsting
Business Angel
Mr. Valdemar Børsting is a seasoned commercial manager in the software business. He has been with start-ups such as Netscape Communications and RealNetworks as MD Nordic Countries. In 2001 he decided to dedicate his time to helping technology entreprenurs succeed working as a Business Angel. Mr. Børsting holds a Bachelor in Business Administration.
Mogens Bransholm
CEO, Conscia A/S
Previous positions
Managing Director, Cisco Denmark
Regional Manager, WM Data
Education
Computer Scientist, B.Sc. in Marketing,
Stanford Executive Program 2007
Ulrik Jørring
Vice President, Vækstfonden
Ulrik Jørring has been involved in high-technology start-ups most of his professional career. He is a co-founder of two IT companies, has had senior sales & marketing, R&D, and general management positions in the data communications, software, and IT services industries, and has been a venture capital investor since 2003. As Senior Vice President at Vækstfonden, a government backed investment fund and one of the largest venture investors in Denmark, Ulrik and his team is responsible for most of Vækstfonden’s direct investments. He also serves on the board of several young companies. Ulrik holds a MSc and PhD from the Technical University of Denmark and a MBA from IMD in Switzerland.
Cathal J. Mahon
Investment Manager
Investment manager at CAT with formal responsibility for IT and Telecommunications Investments. He serves on the board of several of CAT's portfolio companies, including a number of nanotech companies. Dr. Mahon has broad, international experience primarily from the IT and Telecommunications Industry from Philips (NL), TDC (DK) and Corvis (USA) as well as a successful start-up company in the USA. He holds degrees in both Engineering (Ph.D.) and Physics (M.Sc.) in addition to a business diploma from Copenhagen Business School.