BOARD
Mrs. Gertrud Elisabet Bohlin
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
former CEO of The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise in Malmö, is the chairwoman of the board at Apptus Technologies. Gertrud will contribute with experience from developing companies, building high tech business and valuable connections in the business. Gertrud Elisabet Bohlin has been involved in tech companies since 1979. She has worked as CEO at The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and at Ideon Science Park in Lund and has a lot of experience from entrepreneurial companies.
Gertrud has an Executive MBA from School of Economics and Management, Lund University and has a broad experience from different board assignments.
Mr. Christopher Ahlberg
is the CEO and co-founder of Recorded Future, Inc. He recently retired as the president of the Spotfire Division of TIBCO, which he founded as an independent company in 1996 and in 2007 sold to TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX) for $195M, to create the next generation business intelligence opportunity in the market.
Spotfire was founded based on his ground breaking research on information visualization. Dr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology and has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland. He has two granted software patents, and multiple patents pending. Dr. Ahlberg was named among the World's Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation in 2002.
Mr. Erik Fröberg
has over 25 years international experience from the information technology and telecommunication sector. He has held various executive management positions in the software industry and also in the private equity sector. Mr. Fröberg is currently a partner in the private equity firm Neqst Partner, which he co-founded in 2008.
He is engaged as a board member in seven technology companies and is chairman in four of these companies. Prior to this, Mr. Fröberg has acted as an independent board member and private investor, CEO of Danish-American software company Digiquant, special advisor and co-investor in the private equity group General Atlantic Partners, Executive VP and Chief Division Officer in LHS Group and Executive Vice President of Capgemini Sweden.
He holds an MSc in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Mr. Martin Falkevall
”Making a business great is all about understanding what you are good at - and doing it every day with persistence”
is an investment director with InnovationsKapital, a leading Nordic venture capital/private equity investor with approximately 321 MEUR under management. He has a master’s degree in Engineering Physics from Lund Technical University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration from Lund University, and has spent thirteen years in the venture capital/private equity industry investing in high-growth technology companies.
Before joining InnovationsKapital in 2006 he has been a partner at CapMan plc, a stock listed Nordic private equity company and Swedestart Management AB, a Swedish independent venture capital company. Martin joined Apptus’ board in 2007 and is also a board member of 21 Grams AB, Hexaformer AB, Artrix AS and Microdata Telecom Innovations AB.
Mr. Måns Hultman
"Complexity is stupidity disguised as intellect.”
ran QlikTech as CEO between May 2000 and September 2007. During the same period, revenue grew by more than 3,500%. Between November 2004 and October 2009 he was the Chairman of the Board. Måns lead the transformation of QlikTech from a small, product oriented Swedish software vendor into one of the world’s fastest growing software companies between 2000 and 2007, with an average revenue growth rate of 77-80% during 2005, 2006 and 2007.
In 2008 QlikTech became one of few Enterprise SW companies that sell licenses for more than $100M in one year with total revenues of $120M. QlikTech was founded in Lund, Sweden, but has now its HQ in the US and offices in 20 countries.
Mr. Patrik Wåhlin
“Do the right thing. If it doesn’t feel right, it’s probably not.”
received his Masters degree in Science and Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology back in 1994. Since then, he has worked with high-performance database systems in critical environments such as the bank and finance sector in the role of consultant and technology mentor.
Patrik has been engaged as a co-founder in Apptus since the start.