Freespee Team
Do you need to get in contact with any of us at Freespee? Find the phone number and email address details below.
Carl Holmquist
Founder and CEO
+46 770-35 00 32
carl.holmquist at freespee.com
About Carl:
”Carl brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial telco & software leadership experience to Freespee. Carl launched cloud services for the Nordic Next Gen telco, IP-Only. As a senior consultant at Ascade.com, he spent a couple of months at each of the telco Giants as Swisscom, Belgacom, Telenor, Allstream, One, Telecom New Zealand.
Carl holds an MSc from the Institute of Technology in Linköping and Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble. He is also the proud father of three beautiful daughters.”
Tobias Lindgren
Founder and CTO
+46 770-35 00 33
tobias.lindgren at freespee.com
About Tobias:
”Tobias provides Freespee with more than 10 years experience of working with technical projects within several Telecommunication operators.
At IP-Only, a Nordic Next Gen telco, Tobias lead the development of a VOIP-based business solution. He started his career at the Swedish success story Wineasy, a pioneer in cloud services, many many years ago. As Wineasy was aquired by Song Networks and finally TDC, he brings the experience of building rock solid solutions for millions of users. Tobias is also a fanatic alpine skier!”
Daniel Johansson
VP of Sales
+46 770-35 00 77
daniel.johansson at freespee.com
About Daniel:
”Daniel brings over 10 years of IT and telecom experience to Freespee. Daniel was the co-founder and Head of Sales for IP-Only's subsidiary IP-Only Systems, focusing on infrastructure solutions in the area of telephony, networking, security and server/storage. As a sales specialist in IP-communication with Ementor/Atea, Daniel worked with many of the most demanding custumers as the Swedish Universities and Swedish Armed Forces.
Daniel has also worked as an IT-Manager for the software company BEA Systems for 6 years, a company later acquired by Oracle.”
Carsten Gildum
VP of Monetization
+45 2819 2858
carsten.gildum at freespee.com
About Carsten:
”Carsten brings in over 10 years of international business experience to Freespee. Carsten has spent the last 10 years in the local search industry working with some of the largest customers such as Sesam (Schibsted), Eniro, EDSA, Trudon, Truvo, FAST, Sensis, RHD and Yell.com to build mobile strategy, technology and business models.
Prior to Freespee Carsten has been working in the telecom industry and co-founded Mobile People, Carsten holds several board positions in the mobile advertising industry.”
Juhani Polkko
VP of Marketing
+358 9 8860 2860
juhani.polkko at freespee.com
About Juhani:
”Juhani has over 10 years of experience in international marketing, sales and business development for both corporations and startups. He lived in Silicon Valley from 2004 to 2006 connecting Nordic mobile startups and TeliaSonera with the local community. Back in Finland he has helped to roll out several new web and social media companies, as well as headed the Nordic mobile marketing sales for Nokia.
Juhani holds an MBA in Aalto University School of Economics in Helsinki. While he enjoys sailing and traveling, he is still always online.”
Vanessa Ng.
VP, Strategy & Affiliate Relations
+46 770-35 00 48
vanessa at freespee.com
About Vanessa:
”Vanessa has over 10 years of international experience in strategy and product innovation. Before joining Freespee, she managed growth strategy and product innovation of mobile search and advertising for Microsoft. She has been a digital strategy consultant for many international companies, and her clients include companies like eBay and Samsung.
Vanessa holds an MBA with focus in Strategy and Technology Innovation. She enjoys watching movies, and is a committed vegetarian because of her compassion for animals.”
Anders Ekholm
Partner Sales Development
+46 770-35 00 38
anders.ekholm at freespee.com
About Anders:
”Anders has a true entrepreneurial mind and provides Freespee with experiences from the business directory industry, mainly in the Norwegian market, but also throughout the Scandinavian region. He is also conversant in the social media industry and is the founder of the biggest community in the Nordic region in it's field.
At Advista AS, the online directory company, Anders developed and lead the Support and Administration for all markets and regions. Besides enjoying the pulse at the office, he finds a great passion in traveling around the world.”
Jessica Ogden
Director, Partner Service
+46 770-35 00 72
jessica.ogden at freespee.com
About Jessica:
”Jessica brings 8 years of experience in the area of Customer Service and Delivery to Freespee. During her time as a delivery coordinator at IP-Only, Jessica managed delivery projects to large enterprises with high-powered telecom services. Jessica also has a background in planning and coordinating operational works at Com Hem as well as leading the production of photo finishing at Kodak Nordic.”
Stefan Blom
Strategic Account Manager
+46 770-35 00 76
stefan.blom at freespee.com
About Stefan:
”Stefan has a strong background from sales and partner management from some of the biggest telecom operators in Sweden. Most recently he spent four years at Tele2 as Sales Channel Manager. He has also worked at Telenor, and before that he was a Management Trainee at Meltwater News, where he was in charge of their establishment in the Swedish market.
Stefan holds an MSc in Business Administration from Linköping University, with additional studies in Spain and Australia.”
Hannes Engdahl
CFO
+46 770-35 00 73
hannes.engdahl at freespee.com
About Hannes:
”Hannes has experience from a wide range of industries, including IT and Telecom, from positions within business analysis and finance control in organizations that have experienced rapid change, as the online casino provider Net Entertainment, the telco IP-Only, and the packaging recycler Svenska Returpack. His background also covers management consulting within KPMG, with a focus on IT-related change projects for organizations in both private and public sectors.
Hannes holds an MSc in Business and Economics and a BSc in Computer Science, both from the University of Uppsala.”
Tobias Karlsson
Commercial Manager
+46 770-35 00 41 DE: +49 (0) 30 92 10 97 69
tobias.karlsson at freespee.com
About Tobias:
”Tobias brings experience of business processes to Freespee. Working with global actors as Ingram Micro, Sterling Commerce and recently HeidelbergCement, Tobias has managed a number of international projects within e-commerce and finance.
Tobias early learned to speak German which later led to him finishing his engineering studies in Darmstadt. Nowadays, he is constantly on the move somewhere in Europe working with Freespee's customers.”
Chris Shields
Commercial Manager
+46 735-17 70 74 UK: +44 (0)207-07 89 044
chris.shields at freespee.com
About Chris:
”Chris has international marketing experience from working in the Middle East for 7 years as General Manager in full service Advertising agencies. Prior to that he spent 8 years in London serving in Business Intelligence, and key roles within the Recruitment Sector. At Freespee, Chris is responsible for creating new and managing existing partnerships in the United Kingdom.
He's a student of psychology who loves to scuba dive, ski and when the sun is out, play golf.”
Per-Axel Felth
Lead Developer
+46 770-35 00 39
per-axel.felth at freespee.com
About Per-Axel:
”As a lead developer at Freespee, P-A plays a part in the development of most Freespee applications and services. Although he has a wide knowledge in computer science he has a special thing for databases and database tuning.
P-A brings years of experience from different areas of Telecom into the team. Most recently he held a position at IP-Only, developing usage analysis software. He received his officers' training at the Swedish Military Academy in Östersund and graduated specialized in military telecommunication technology in 2005.”
Johannes Walleboom
Web Developer
+46 770-35 00 34
johannes.walleboom at freespee.com
About Johannes:
”Johannes brings Freespee over 10 years of experience in web development. Mention "Internet Explorer" and he shudders, if there's one root to all evil, Johannes insists it's IE.
Apart from web development Johannes enjoy photography, aeronautics, climbing, judging floorball and playing video games.”
Mattias Hagberg
Web Designer & Developer
+46 770-35 00 46
mattias.hagberg at freespee.com
About Mattias:
”As a developer and designer who built his first small website at the mere age of 10, Mattias has been focusing a lot on the graphical part of web development. He now handles things like CSS3 and Photoshop professionally, and very much enjoys the progression of web technologies.
Apart from designing and coding, Mattias enjoys music – especially singing, sporadic drumming and some self-producing. Audiophile or not, he never leaves home without some metal music in his headphones. His other interests are cooking, writing and videogames.”
Michael Wahlnäs
Developer
+46 770-35 00 43
michael.wahlnas at freespee.com
About Michael:
”This programmer, who has vast knowledge in Linux systems, PHP, SQL, Java and C# among others, is a self-taught happy coder holding a Degree of Master of Science. Michael plays an important part of the Freespee team, developing and maintaining databases and oceans of code, so that our applications always can run smoothly.”
Håkan Olofsson
Server Administrator, Developer
+46 770-35 00 47
hakan.olofsson at freespee.com
About Håkan:
”As a Server Administrator at Freespee, Håkan is focused on making sure that the platforms our applications run on is working flawlessly. While not administrating the servers, Håkan joins the development team in the developing process of the Freespee applications and services.
Apart from administrating servers and coding, Håkan enjoys photography and playing floorball and paintball.”
Non-executives
Sami Lampinen
Chairman of the Board
+358 40 520 5295
sami.lampinen at freespee.com
About Sami:
”Sami is the Managing Director of Inventure Oy, which he founded in 2005. At Inventure, Sami leads the investments in Silex Microsystems AB, Freespee AB, Whitevector Oy, and Upstream Oy. Prior to Inventure, Sami held the Partner position in the technology team of CapMan, and worked as a management consultant at SIAR-Bossard/Gemini Consulting.”
Perttu Hörkkö
Board member
About Perttu:
”Perttu is an ICT professional with more than 15 years of international experience on Sales, Marketing and Business development.
He has managed and built business relationships with more than 50 International Telecom companies such as AT&T, BT, Verizon, France Telecom and Telenor. Perttu also holds significant experience on developing and managing new business opportunities and executing business plans within the industry.
Perttu has been advisor to Freespee since mid 2008 and officially joined the board in 2009.”
Daniel Kaplan
Board member
+46 73-920 94 00
daniel.kaplan at freespee.com
About Daniel:
”Daniel Kaplan is the CEO of Firm Factory Network, and as such he is chairman of Loanland, Hyrahyra, FFN Internet Retail Holding, Click Invest, Workmint and a board member of Freespee.”
Larry Lisser
Board member
+1-415-710-5947
larry.lisser at freespee.com
About Larry:
”Larry has spent almost 20 years bringing to market and growing innovative communications technologies and services companies.
In his current capacity as a Principal Partner at Embrase, Larry leverages his wide-ranging sales, marketing and business development experiences to help clients in emerging communications succeed around the world. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Larry has been based in San Francisco for 15 years.
Larry is also the co-founder of StartupCamp Comms, an event focused on exposing and nurturing innovation in the early stage communications companies.”
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