MANAGEMENT
Mr. Michael Mokhberi
CEO
“I don’t walk to work. The cheer of working with people I trust, respect and love makes me run.”
Mr. Michael Mokhberi is a co-founder and the CEO of Apptus. Michael is one of Scandinavia’s foremost authorities in the area of search technology. He received his masters degree in Computer Science from Lund University in 1995 and has been working with both technical and business oriented aspects of high-performance mission-critical database solutions since then.
Mr. Mokhberi was granted the prestigious SMIL award as the IT-innovator of the year, 2004.
Mrs. Charlotte Widstrand
CFO
“I will either find a way – or make one.”
Mrs. Charlotte Widstrand joined Apptus in august 2006 and is responsible for finance and administration. Charlotte holds a Masters of International Business Administration since1991 and has more than fifteen years of experience in international business. After graduation Charlotte worked as Controller in Germany at an agriculture company. She returned to Sweden 1995 to a position as Controller at the parent company Skånska Lantmännen.
Before joining Apptus in August 2006 she was Head of Finance at Fexco Money Transfer AB, a company providing international payment services for Western Union.
Mr. Björn Brodén
CTO
"Given a team of intelligent doers, you can accomplish almost anything."
Mr. Björn Brodén graduated year 2000 with a Masters degree in computer science from Lund University. After a brief foray into the world of academic research Mr. Brodén joined Apptus R&D division 2001. At Apptus he has been one of the driving forces in the development of our search platforms Typhoon/Theca and has been involved in countless search and high-performance database projects as developer and mentor.
Björn joined Apptus management team in December 2008 under the title of CTO.
Mr. Michael Atlevi
COO
“If you don’t have a Goal in life, the direction you take really doesn’t matter.”
Mr. Atlevi has been contributing to Apptus development as CEO between January 2007 and March 2009, and in the position of COO since then. He has spent over 20 years in sales and business development, building up international markets from zero to 100 MSEK plus businesses.
His latest assignment before joining Apptus was managing the EMEA operation for the software company Telelogic (now IBM), with over 500 MSEK in turnover. Michael holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Lund, Sweden.
Mr. Lars Hall
VP Product Marketing
“The secret behind Apptus winnings is the mindset of preventing problems instead of just solving them as they come along.”
Mr. Lars Hall graduated with a master of science in mathematics from Lund University. Mr. Hall has been lecturing at Lund University in natural sciences and has over 20 years experience from mission critical information retrieval and information extraction solutions.
Mr. William Cobert
VP Sales
“It’s all about the customers!...at Apptus we never forget this!”
Mr. William Cobert joined Apptus in early 2010. He is a very experienced business executive with a successful track record of starting up and running European Sales operations for Technology Companies. He has a degree in Marketing Communications and has been in technology sales during his whole career.
His experiences include the following positions and companies: VP European Sales at Spotfire, VP Europe at VA Linux Systems, Director Southern Europe at Silicon Graphics and Director at Computervision.