I2P Global Judges

Feedback Presentations – November 16

ICT

Åke Freij
Åke Freij is a business developer and solutions executive for the financial services industry at IBM. He is also a PhD candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics. Åke has a financial services and management consulting background, including executive roles both locally and globally. In IBM he works with business development and solutions design, and is supporting insurance – and banking clients in matters ranging from architecture implementation to innovation strategies. In his academic research Åke focuses on dynamics in product design and industrial architecture, specifically when influenced by regulatory changes. He can be reached at ake.freij@se.ibm.com and ake.freij@hhs.se.
 
Lars Grönberg

Grönberg is at the moment a PhD candidate at Stockholm School of Economics. As a member of the Department of Management &Organization his focus is on Corporate Governance and especially its impact on the Corporate Board in action. Since 1999 Grönberg is working full time as a Non-Executive Board Director/Chairman and at the moment Grönberg is on the board of 10 companies ranging from the listed IT consultancy firm Connecta to the terrestrial digital broadcaster Teracom and the communications operator Quadracom.

Previous board experience covers areas like data storage/management, GSM/telecom operators and biometrics. Grönberg has been on the board of listed, state owned and privately owned companies in sizes from early start-ups to mature ongoing businesses.

Grönberg worked for Xerox up to 1989 being the Swedish Managing Director between 1984-1989. From 1993 till 1996 Grönberg was in charge of Kinneviks telecoms business and was the first managing director of the today major group Tele2. In 1996 Grönberg joined the executive board of Tele Denmark in charge of its foreign business.

 

Dan Ekelund

Dan Ekelund joined Industrifonden in 1997 focusing on VC investments in technology companies primarily in the ICT sector but also in other industries. Dan has held several senior operational positions including CEO at Cale as well as various positions at Inter Innovation, one of the 80´s fast growers, acquired by DeLaRue Plc. He has also worked for Datema-ASEA ProcessData, the Swedish Trade Office in Los Angeles and as management consultant at Indevo.

Dan is and has been part owner in companies as private investor and entrepreneur.  He has also served on more than 25 boards of directors. Dan holds a M.Sc. degree (Civilingenjör) in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sc. (Civilekonom) in Business Administration and Economics.

 

  Anna Oscarsson

 

Anna Oscarsson is co-founder of the Start-up Kvittar www.kvittar.se . Kvittar is a system for sending receipts digitally from stores, restaurants and hotels. Kvittar was the first one out to do this in Sweden in 2011 and has with that changed an entire system and regulations on how receipts are allowed to be handle in Sweden. Anna is also part of the board of directors at Drivhuset in Malmo, an organization to help Student Entrepreneurs and she is also one of the initiators to Geek Girl Meetup Öresund. Anna is, at the moment, also part of the jury for the prize for this years Business Rookie in Malmö. Anna graduated from the Entrepreneur school the Kaospilot www.kaospilot.dk in 2009. 

 

 Magnus Rosenblad

 

Magnus Rosenblad has over 20 years of management experience from the ICT and Power industry and has worked as investment advisor and management consultant in the renewable energy industry for 6 years. He started his career with Ericsson Telekom, where during a successful ten years he held positions of increasing responsibility ranging from R&D Department Manager in the Netherlands, over Project Management Director in Sweden and finally Vice President of Sales and Marketing in Germany. Magnus went on to Emerson Network Power, where he headed the global Solutions Business Unit, focusing on building solutions across the company’s product divisions. Magnus is since 2011 responsible for General Electric’s Smartgrid business in the Nordic region and is based in Stockholm. Magnus holds an MSc. from Chalmers University of Technology and fluently speaks Swedish, English, German and Dutch

 

Energy 

Erik Persson

Erik Persson, 33 years old, grew up in Hälsingland (Bollnäs), adopted from Sri Lanka. He joined ABB Corporate Research in November 2007 after completing university studies at MdH (Mechanical engineering with a special focus on fluid mechanics and thermal management). Erik has been responsible for the technical assessment in different due diligence processes when ABB has been looking for acquisition candidates. He assembled and headed a global team that performed technology scouting in the waste-to-energy sector for ABB Technology Ventures.

 

Sofia Zätterström

 

Sofia Zätterström was born in Stockholm in 1979. She graduated from KTH master programme in vehicle engineering in 2006. She was then accepted to ABB: s Executive Trainee Programme and continued to work with ABB as Project Manager and Research Engineer at ABB Corporate Research until 2010. Duties included facilitating cooperation with business units within ABB as well as with academy.

Sofia then joined start-up company Accumulate that develops payment applications for mobile phones.  After having started as Project Manager she moved on to the position as Business Unit Director where she stayed until joining KIC InnoEnergy Sweden in October 2012.

 

Maarten Berkhout

 

Maarten has a masters degree in Econometrics. He has been working in de power sector since early 2000. Maarten started with Reliant Energy Europe that was taken over by Nuon, which is now part of Vattenfall. Maarten’s background is mainly in project and business development, with strong interaction with regulatory, technical and market opportunity related activities.

Maarten joined R&D in May 2011, after having been responsible for an innovative gasification and CCS plant project in the Netherlands. Maarten is now responsible for strategic innovation, supporting the direction and execution of all R&D activities. This covers amongst others the responsibility for generation and assessment of new technologies and potential new R&D areas.

 

Magnus Brandberg

Magnus works as a business angel, providing financial and operative support to companies in early stages within energy, IT and technology, and sees himself as half investor and half entrepreneur. He has a background in the energy industry, where he has managed projects related to business development, strategy and valuation connected to all parts of the energy supply chain. Magnus holds an M.Sc. in Energy Systems Engineering from Uppsala University and the University of Edinburgh. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD in Singapore and France.

 

Rebecca Taylor

Following the successful sale of her firm Taylor-Deininger Partners, Inc. in June 2010, Rebecca Taylor was selected as 2011 IEEE Engineering & Diplomacy Fellow.  She is serving as Senior Advisor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Science & Technology Adviser to the Secretary. At TDP, Ms. Taylor advised executives in the semiconductor, software and venture capital industries on new markets, strategic planning, profitability and operational improvements using technology. Prior to forming TD Partners, Ms Taylor was Director of Software Platforms at Advanced Micro Devices’ Personal Connectivity Solutions division, where she formed its software organization creating products for wireless networks, PDA, and digital TV. Prior to joining AMD, Becky was President/CEO and advisor to numerous product startups and consultancies, notably Terrace Mountain Systems, where she provided software strategy and design services to the Global 2000, on four continents. Ms. Taylor is a Senior Member of the IEEE and holds multiple patents. She has a BS in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Public Affairs from UT’s LBJ School. Her board service includes election as a director of TruWest Credit Union, and Austin Community College’s Foundation Board.  She has one son, Daniel, a senior in college.

Life Science

Staffan Lindstrand

Partner of HealthCap, a family of multi stage venture capital funds, investing globally in life sciences. With committed capital exceeding € 900 million, HealthCap is one of the largest specialized providers of venture capital within life sciences in Europe. Prior to joining HealthCap in 1997, he gained over 10 years of investment banking experience, mainly with ABB Aros Securities in Sweden. Staffan serves as a director of several private and public life science companies and he received his M. Sc. in Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm.


Hans Andreasson

Hans Andreasson is an Investment Director with SLS Invest, a Scandinavian-based venture capital company.  Prior to this Mr. Andreasson has held senior management positions with Pharmacia & Upjohn,  Arthur D. Little and Nobel Industries.  He has served on numerous boards and is currently a board member of AdvanDx Inc., Gyros AB, Medical Vision AB, Oncolog Medical AB and Light Sciences Oncology Inc.  Mr. Andreasson holds a M.Sc. from Chalmers University of Technology, a M.Phil. from the University of Bradford and a MBA from INSEAD.

 

Jan-Erik Nyström

Jan-Erik is starting up his own business as a consultant in the lifescience area after more 20 years at AstraZeneca. After academic research at KTH he started as industrial researcher and Astra 1991. He has a broad drug discovery background from various senior roles including medicinal chemistry director for 10 years, research head, project leader, and external collaborations director in the CNS&Pain and cardiovascular research areas. Jan-Erik has served in the AZ global project evaluation group numerous times. He serves also as chairman of the Berzelius program “EXSELENT”, chairman of the Association of Surface Chemistry Research “FYF”, and board member of Institute for Surface chemistry “YKI”.

Jan-Erik has maintained strong academic collaborations through roles as section chairman of Swedish Chemical Society, board member of Swedish National Committee for Chemistry and Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences section Medicinal Chemistry.

 

Jenny Ottosson Takanen

Site Director at KTH in the Human Protein Atlas Project, one of Sweden’s biggest research projects aiming to map where all human proteins are present in normal and cancer tissues and cells using antibodies. She has expertise in protein expression and purification and 10 years of management experience. Moreover, she has a Ph.D. in biocatalysis and a M.Sc. in chemical engineering.

 

William Hulsey

Mr. Hulsey holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from the Vanderbilt School of Law and served as a commissioned Naval Officer (Lieutenant Commander) in the United States Navy Submarine Force. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Rhodes College, where he graduated With Distinction. Mr. Hulsey is a member of the State Bars of Texas, Tennessee and New York and Registered to Practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Also, he serves as a Fellow of the Innovation, Creativity & Capital (IC2) Institute of the University of Texas at Austin and has presented/published in over 100 venues/publications.

His law firm, HULSEY, P.C., Intellectual Property Lawyers (HULSEYIP) takes great pride in serving emerging growth companies competing in global markets with products and services. HULSEYIP represents clients before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, as well as other intellectual property offices of nations around the globe via a network of foreign associates with whom the practice daily collaborates.

Mr. Hulsey serves on the Selection Committee for the Central Texas Regional Center for Innovation & Commercialization under The State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund Program. He also frequently serves as a Judge in the internationally recognized Idea to Product (I2P®) UT Competition at the University of Texas campus. Most recently, He served as a judge for The I2P® Global Competition 2010.
 

Championship Presentations – November 17

 ICT

Jane Walerud

Jane Walerud is CEO and co-founder of Teclo Networks AG, a telecommunications supplier which accelerates mobile broadband by about 30%. Teclo Networks was incorporated in 2010 and sells its products to mobile telecommunications operators globally.

Teclo Networks is Jane’s eleventh startup, of which so far five are world class successes (Bluetail, Lensway, Tobii Technology, Klarna and Midsummer). Jane often takes in operational roles in startups; she has been CEO or Business Area Head in four of the startups and working chairman in another two. Almost all of her startups are in the ICT industry, where she has spent most of her career.  Jane Walerud has served on several research institution boards and committees, and taught startup courses.  She was born in California and met her Swedish husband during their studies at Stanford University.

 

Rebecca Taylor

Following the successful sale of her firm Taylor-Deininger Partners, Inc. in June 2010, Rebecca Taylor was selected as 2011 IEEE Engineering & Diplomacy Fellow.  She is serving as Senior Advisor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Science & Technology Adviser to the Secretary. At TDP, Ms. Taylor advised executives in the semiconductor, software and venture capital industries on new markets, strategic planning, profitability and operational improvements using technology. Prior to forming TD Partners, Ms Taylor was Director of Software Platforms at Advanced Micro Devices’ Personal Connectivity Solutions division, where she formed its software organization creating products for wireless networks, PDA, and digital TV. Prior to joining AMD, Becky was President/CEO and advisor to numerous product startups and consultancies, notably Terrace Mountain Systems, where she provided software strategy and design services to the Global 2000, on four continents. Ms. Taylor is a Senior Member of the IEEE and holds multiple patents. She has a BS in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Public Affairs from UT’s LBJ School. Her board service includes election as a director of TruWest Credit Union, and Austin Community College’s Foundation Board.  She has one son, Daniel, a senior in college.

 

Daniel Grönquist

Mr. Grönquist is a Principal and innovation director at Bekk Management Consulting, a leading customer centric management consulting firm based in Oslo, Norway. Bekk Management Consulting focus on developing business models with a strong focus on customer needs and experiences – the customer’s customer. Before joining Bekk, Mr. Grönquist was a Partner and Director of Technology and Strategy at NormannPartners, an international strategy consulting firm founded by Richard Normann. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President Strategy and CIO at listed multi-national communications management firm Observer Group contributing to expansion and growth from one country to more than 15 countries. In addition to the competence areas of business scenarios, strategy and innovation, where he has lectured at Oxford University, Stanford and several business schools in Scandinavia, Mr. Grönquist has extensive experience in ICT and human-computer interaction. He is a former owner and chairman of Norwegian virtual education company World Beside, winning the DnBNOR innovation award in 2008, and a former founder and business manager of software design company Blueberry CHI, winning the Apple Interface Design Project in 1993. Mr. Grönquist holds an MSc Computer Science from Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and University of Florida and he lives in Oslo, Norway

 

Donnie Lygonis

Donnie has a background in entrepreneurship and teaching and now works as a technology transfer manager at KTH Innovation in Stockholm.

That means he spends his days helping researchers and students to realize and commercialize their ideas and findings, and also finding new ways of finding synergies between the knowledge in academia and the business drive of the market. He has started a number of companies, most within Internet, mobile and gaming. Donnie has also worked with creative processes for the past 10 years and is considered one of Sweden’s top speakers on creativity and innovation. He was also part of the group that started TEDx talks in Sweden.

 

Kristina Höök

Professor Kristina Höök is member of the Interaction lab at SICS. She upholds a position in Interaction Design in the MID-group, CSC-school at KTH. Kristina Höök started and is still active in the Mobile Life centre.

 

Energy

Andreas Frisk

Co-founder and investment director of Sustainable Technologies Fund.

Previous occupations include; CEO the The Natural Step Environmental Institute, initiator of one of Sweden’s first Environmental Mutual Funds, Svensk Miljöfond, co- founder and CEO Speed Ventures, a European early stage investment company, co- founder and CEO of China Production Partner, sourcing and manufacturing in China, and co- founder and Investment Director, Sustainable Technologies Funds.

 

Siimon Vaske

Siimon Vaske is the Technology Transfer Manager at KTH Innovation handling Energy and Cleantech inventions created at the Royal Institute of Technology. He holds a Master’s degree from Chalmers University of Technology and previous experience come from positions at The Swedish Trade Councils office in Tallinn, Estonia and more recently as CEO at Lucent Oil AB where he has been part of the organization from the start. He has also held board member positions in OY Phoenix Oil Collector and Boll Lucent AB, the daughter companies of Lucent Oil.

 

William Hulsey

Mr. Hulsey established HULSEY, P.C., Intellectual Property Lawyers (HULSEYIP) to apply a highly developed specialty and experience in a broad span of technical fields. HULSEYIP takes great pride in serving emerging growth companies competing in global markets with products and services relating to energy, life sciences, electronics, environmental, software, and aerospace technologies. As broad as are HULSEYIP’s technology proficiencies, the firm is yet tightly focused in providing its clients with the highest quality in patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark legal services.

As a practicing patent attorney, Mr. Hulsey has developed and implemented complete intellectual property protection and licensing programs for numerous companies.  Mr. Hulsey has committed his law practice and professional endeavors to promoting entrepreneurship and the protection and commercialization of his clients’ intellectual property rights. His range of legal representation covers initial IP portfolio development work through litigation in enforcing clients IP rights. Bill has represented clients in intellectual property matters before Federal District Courts in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, Texas, as well as in San Jose, California and Rochester, New York.

 

Ilka von Dalwigk

Ilka von Dalwigk from Vattenfall is an R&D Result Controller, working with issues related to CO2 capture and storage. She is also jointly responsible for KIC Energy (Knowledge and Innovation Communities). She was previously an EU Projects Coordinator and has led several strategic innovation projects. She started studying geosciences at the Phillipps University, Marburg, before moving to Stockholm. She wrote her master thesis at Stockholm University and continued her academic career with Ph.D. studies on the Siljan Impact Structure.


Magnus Backman

Magnus Backman is leading a research group at ABB’s Corporate Research Center in Västerås, Sweden. The research area is related to power products and especially electrical apparatuses and diagnostics. The target is to identify and develop new concepts based on market demands and technology push. Prior to that position, Magnus worked as a project leader and researcher in the same field for more than 15 years and has filed some 20 patents. Improvement of circuit breaker performance and bringing new semiconductor concepts all the way to field installations are examples of achievements. During this period, foreign assignments have been conducted in Germany and Switzerland. Magnus holds a master’s degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University.

 

Life Science

Alexander Kele

Global marketing manager at GE Healthcare, a global company with a multibillion dollar business stretching from medical devices to life science instrumentation. In his industrial career he has brought several software, capital equipment and consumable products to the market and has experience from start-ups as well as large organizations. He has a great interest in entrepreneurial ventures, shown by several projects during his academic career at Oxford University and Karolinska Institutet. With a M.Sc. in biomedicine, a Lic. in genetics and a Ph.D. in cardiovascular medicine he covers a broad range of applications within the life science area.


Lilian Wikström

CEO of Karolinska Institutet Innovations AB, a company with a mission to commercialize early life science inventions from Karolinska Institutet, the medical school in Stockholm, Sweden. Her basic scientific training is within the field of molecular and cellular biology and was awarded a PhD for her thesis work at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Boston, USA, followed by a postdoctoral training at Karolinska Institutet. Since that, Dr Wikström has worked in the life science industry where she has held various leading positions within different pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

 

Tim Meldrum

Tim has just started a new role as Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management in Winchester Business School, within the University of Winchester in southern England.  His current teaching duties lie in delivering modules in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and he is programme leader for the MSc Business Management degree.  Before joining Winchester in 2012, he spent four years at City University London managing a team of Entrepreneurship lecturers.  While at City, Tim launched the London City Incubator, and led the development of commercialization processes at City to best-practice standards. Tim spent seven years at Imperial College London, latterly running the Entrepreneurship Centre. His BA is from University of Nottingham, his MSc (Econ.) and PhD from LSE, and his MBA from Imperial in 2001. He has attended Global I2P since its inception in 2003, and co-hosted the competition in 2007.

 

Jochen Schwenk

Jochen M. Schwenk is Associate Professor (Docent) in Translational Proteomics at Biobank Profiling at the KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a Group Leader within the Human Protein Atlas and manages the Biobank Profiling facility at the Science for Life Laboratory. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, receiving his PhD in 2005 for his work with Dr. Thomas Joos (NMI). He then joined Prof. Mathias Uhlén and the Human Protein Atlas for his postdoctoral work, funded by the Wallenberg Foundation and F.Hoffmann-La Roche. In 2009, Dr. Schwenk was nominated as “KTH star” for the WCN symposium on Frontiers in The New Biology KTH. Today his group is working on high-throughput and multiplexed methods for protein profiling body fluids with antibodies from the Human Protein Atlas.


Hans-Jürgen Federsel

Hans-Jürgen Federsel (born 16th March 1949, in Säter, Dalecarlia province, Sweden), PhD, is a renowned specialist in the field of process R&D where he has spent his entire professional career spanning a period of over 30 years. Starting off as bench chemist in former Astra at the major Swedish site in Södertälje he has climbed the ranks occupying positions both as line and project manager. After the merger that formed AstraZeneca he has been the Head of Projects Management at the aforementioned location and was then appointed to a newly created role as Director of Science in Global Process R&D as of the beginning of 2004. In connection with this he was also given the prestigious title Senior Principal Scientist. The strong academic links have been further developed throughout the years after obtaining the PhD in organic chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, which was recognized by awarding him the Associate Professorship title. His long-lasting links to this Institute has brought him a seat on the Board of the School of Chemical Science and Engineering from 2005. Publishing in peer reviewed journals and books and frequent lecturing has rendered fame to his name that goes far beyond the limits of the own company and Dr Federsel enjoys invitations from all over the world to share learning and experience from his broad knowledge base on process R&D. In 2009 he was elected to the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), a high profile and renowned organisation, enjoying the status of being the oldest worldwide (founded in 1919) devoted to the area of engineering in the widest sense of the word. As part of a major company restructuring, he was confirmed in the role of Senior Principal Scientist in Chemical Science in the newly created Pharmaceutical Development Department from August 2010.