Juha Christensen

Current

Board Member at VirtualLogix
Partner at Progression Partners
Chairman & Founder at Cogniance, Inc.

Chairman & CEO at CloudMade
Venture Partner & Co-Founder at Sunstone Capital
Board Member at Teleca

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Past

Board Member at Trolltech
Chairman and Founder at Sonopia Corporation
Board Member at Unwire

President at Macromedia
Board Member and Executive Committee Member at CTIA
Corporate Vice President, Mobile Devices Division at Microsoft Corp.
Board Member at Fairgain
Board Member and Executive Vice President at Symbian
Founding Marketing Chairman at CompactFlash Association
Vice President, Licensing at Psion
Country Manager at Microspot

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Education

London Business School

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Computer Software

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Juha Christensen’s Summary

Finance, software, wireless, consumer electronics, new ventures, product design and marketing

Juha Christensen’s Specialties:

Finance, strategy, operations, planning, engineering, marketing and sales

Juha Christensen’s Experience

Board Member

VirtualLogix

(Computer Software industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

VirtualLogix is a private company with investments from Index, DFJ, Atlas, Texas Instruments, Intel, Cisco and Motorola.

VirtualLogix enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware and provides a range of performance, fault tolerance and security options to address specific market requirements.

As a result, the world's largest semiconductor companies, manufacturers, OEMs and carriers are able to reduce development and bill of material costs, improve time to market by leveraging existing software investments, and create conditions that meet their business goals.
Partner

Progression Partners

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Progression builds world-class, game-changing companies. The partnership takes a high-value-added, analytical and exclusive approach to building value.

The Progression team is made up by a hands-on team of individuals with management, investment, marketing and product experience, gained from having held senior leadership and board positions in companies, ranging from very large public companies to small, embryonic start-ups.
Chairman & Founder

Cogniance, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Cogniance is one of the leading full-service software consultancies in the software industry, focusing on servicing early-stage, venture backed, cutting edge technology companies. With offices in Menlo Park, California and Kyiv, Ukraine, Cogniance offers services within ideation, specification, use case development, architecture, coding, test, deployment and data center management. Specializing in complex, leading edge projects for early stage venture backed technology companies, Cogniance’s consultants have developed a proven track record of delivering complex projects on-time, on-budget and on-spec. Companies that want to de-risk the development process and maximize the value of their ideas, products and intellectual properties turn to Cogniance. www.cogniance.com
Chairman & CEO

CloudMade

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

CloudMade is leading a revolution in how people across the world use maps. Doing to maps what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedias, CloudMade is working with a rapidly growing mapping community to map every nook and cranny of the world. Every day, thousands of individuals are spending more than an hour creating maps that are more accurate, more up-to-date and more relevant than any map ever made.
Venture Partner & Co-Founder

Sunstone Capital

(Financial Services industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Founding Venture Partner at Sunstone Capital, the leading Venture Capital player in Northern Europe, with more than $750 million under management and offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and Menlo Park, California. Sunstone focuses on early-stage investments and currently has a portfolio of over 38 investments across Technology and Life Science.
Board Member

Teleca

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TELCb; Wireless industry)

December 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

Member of Teleca's board of directors. Teleca is, with its 2,000 employees in 11 countries, the mobile industry's largest Systems Integrator. Over 40% of the world's handsets are 'touched by Teleca', the largest software integration partner to Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and a major supplier of services to Samsung, LG and a number of other handset makers.
Board Member

Trolltech

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TROLL; Computer Software industry)

February 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 5 months)

Board Member at Trolltech (sold to Nokia in 2008) the leading provider of cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech’s Qt is used in popular software such as Skype, Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Lucasfilm and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech’s Qtopia has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech’s software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.
Chairman and Founder

Sonopia Corporation

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 1 month)

Launched in April 2007, Sonopia has changed the way people think about mobile service. Sonopia makes it easy for anyone—whether a major organization or an entrepreneurial individual – to become a mobile carrier in a matter of minutes, and offer their constituents a full-service wireless package—complete with a selection of branded handsets, calling plans to suit a variety of lifestyles, and access to exclusive content tailored to their personal interests. Sonopia lets mobile subscribers take control of their mobile phones service, connect with other subscribers who share their interests, and support organizations they care about.
Board Member

Unwire

(Partnership; Telecommunications industry)

September 2003 — January 2008 (4 years 5 months)

Unwire (sold to LD Equity in January, 2008) is with it's 80% market share Northern Europe's leader in mobile operator and broadcast solutions. Unwire's mobile broadcast platform significantly cuts down time-to-market for media companies wanting to offer mobile applications.
President

Macromedia

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)

December 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 3 months)

President of Macromedia Mobile and Consumer Electronics efforts. Drove planning, strategy, engineering, marketing and sales globally. Also ran company wide planning.
Board Member and Executive Committee Member

CTIA

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 2000 — January 2004 (3 years 7 months)

Board Member and Member of the Executive Committee of CTIA, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. CTIA is the international association for the wireless industry, dedicated to expanding the wireless frontier.
Corporate Vice President, Mobile Devices Division

Microsoft Corp.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 9 months)

Microsoft's mobile devices efforts aimed at subscribers, carriers and OEMs.
Board Member

Fairgain

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 2000 — March 2002 (2 years 2 months)

Pioneering opt-in marketing company, merged with Jatak.com in 2002, creating one of the largest email marketing companies in Northern Europe with about 700,000 members.
Board Member and Executive Vice President

Symbian

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 1995 — April 2000 (4 years 5 months)

Operating systems for mobile phones
Founding Marketing Chairman

CompactFlash Association

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 1995 — February 1998 (3 years )

The CompactFlash Association is a non-profit, mutual-benefit corporation that promotes adoption of CompactFlash as a worldwide, ultra-small, removable storage and I/O standard for capturing and transporting digital data, audio and images and performing I/O functionality such as modems, Ethernet, serial, BlueTooth wireless and laser scanning
Vice President, Licensing

Psion

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PON.L; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1992 — December 1995 (4 years )

Maker of handheld computers and PDAs
Country Manager

Microspot

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1988 — December 1991 (3 years 10 months)

First employee at Microspot US. Started up the US operations, and helped build it into the leader in large format color printing on the Mac. Introduced CAD solutions into the US.