Key Management and Board

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Lars-Michaël Paqvalén

M.Sc. (Econ.), Founder and CEO, Board Member

• CFO and member of the Board of Directors of Hotsip (sold to Oracle)
• CFO at Gambro AB for worldwide operations
• Co-founder and CEO of Hansa Business Solutions
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Jörgen Björkner

M.Sc. (Eng.), Founder and CTO, Board Member

• Internet standardization within IETF (since 1997) and various industry fora
• VP Concept Development of Hotsip (sold to Oracle)
• Co-founder, former Chairman and Board member of SIP Forum
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Patrik Sörqvist

M.Sc. (Eng.), VP Support & Supply

• At Global IP Sound, where he was since it was founded in 1999 until joining Telepo in 2007, he held several senior positions, most recently as Vice President Customer Engineering. He was a member of the Senior Management Team from 1999 to 2007. Global IP Sound is a leading company in speech processing and IP telephony with clients such as Cisco, Skype, Nortel, Yahoo, AOL and Google
• Former Area Manager, Quality of Service, at Ericsson Telecom and in Audio and Visual Technology Research at Ericsson Research

Hans Ahlinder

M.Sc. (Eng.), Chairman

• Co-founder and former CEO and President of IBX
• Senior Vice President at Gambro AB, where he was responsible for worldwide operations
• Several senior positions in central procurement at Ericsson, Volvo Car Corporation and Pharmacia AB

Edward Kozel

B.Sc. (Eng.) University of California, Vice Chairman

• Managing Director, Open Range LLC
• Cisco Systems, a variety of roles ranging from Chief Technology Officer, SVP Business Development, Executive Board member, and other executive responsibilities
• SRI International, a private Research and Development organization working on foundational Internet technology
• Currently serving as Non-Executive board member for Network Appliance (Nasdaq: NTAP) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO)
• Previous Non-Executive Board member of Cisco Systems, RedHat, Tibco Software and Reuters PLC

Kevin Comolli

B.Sc. (Eng. and Math.), MBA (Harvard), Board member

• Managing General Partner of Accel Partners, London
• Partner at Doughty Hanson & Co.
• Executive Director at Goldman Sachs International
• 14 years with Fanuc, the world-leader in robotics and numerical controls. Fanuc develops and deploys full automation systems incorporating advanced hardware, software and communications technology. Over his 14-year career with Fanuc, he held various board, general management, sales, marketing and engineering positions in EMEA and the USA

Heikki Mäkijärvi

Board member

• Venture Partner of Accel Partners, London
• 3 years at Cisco Systems as Business Development and Strategic Alliances team for Cisco Systems Europe, Middle East and Africa and member of management team at Cisco Systems Finland and Baltics
• 15 years with Nokia, he worked in R&D organization and held a variety of management positions in Nokia's global product marketing and business development organizations

Jan Gapinski

M.Sc. (Eng.), Advisory Board member

• Entrepreneur
• Co-founder of both Sendit (sold to Microsoft) and Speed Ventures
• Business knowledge of the SIP industry as first investor and Board member of Hotsip (sold to Oracle)
• 9 years of experience from marketing and technology management in Ericsson

Pekka Koponen

M.Sc. (Eng.), MBA (IMD), Advisory Board member

• CEO at Spinverse
• Partner of Nokia Early Stage Technology Fund
• Director for Strategy & Business Development at Nokia Mobile Software