Vice President Community Relations at MySQL AB
Munich Area, Germany
- Current
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- Board member at Productive Business Systems Ab
- Owner at Kaj Arnö Communications Ab
- Vice President Community Relations at MySQL AB
- Past
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- VP, CIO at MySQL AB
- VP Engineering at MySQL AB
- VP Professional Services at MySQL AB
- VP Consulting at MySQL AB
- VP Training at MySQL AB
- CEO at Polycon Ab
- Education
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- Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan
- Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
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Kaj Arnö’s Summary
Software industry generalist, having serving as VP Professional Services, VP Engineering, CIO and VP Community Relations of MySQL AB. Board member of Productive Business Systems Ab (Åland). Past founder, CEO and 14 year main entrepreneur of Polycon Ab (Finland).
Kaj Arnö’s Specialties:
The world's most popular Open Source database.
Cultural awareness
Distributed companies
Kaj Arnö’s Experience
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Board member
Productive Business Systems Ab
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (9 months)
Board member for the largest IT solution provider on the Åland Islands (between Sweden and Finland) http://www.pbs.ax
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Owner
Kaj Arnö Communications Ab
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Investment Management industry)
November 2005 — Present (2 years 9 months)
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Vice President Community Relations
MySQL AB
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Responsible for company relations to Free and Open Source Software community, reporting to the CEO (Licensing, Architecture of Participation, Users Conference; growing the user base)
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VP, CIO
MySQL AB
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — August 2005 (1 year)
Responsible for MySQL AB's Internal IT department, mainly out of Uppsala, Sweden.
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VP Engineering
MySQL AB
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2003 — August 2004 (10 months)
Acting VP of Engineering of MySQL AB, when the MySQL AB engineering department was about 60 heads.
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VP Professional Services
MySQL AB
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2003 — March 2004 (5 months)
VP Professional Services (Support, Training, Certification, Consulting)
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VP Consulting
MySQL AB
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 2 months)
Launching MySQL AB's consulting activities
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VP Training
MySQL AB
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 6 months)
Launched MySQL AB's training activities
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CEO
Polycon Ab
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1987 — April 2001 (13 years 11 months)
Founded Polycon Ab in 1987
Training, consulting and providing software solutions
Grew and developed the company 1987-1995
Sold part of the company to NU Unternehmens-Beratung GmbH 1996
Bought it back 1999
Sold half of the company to MySQL AB in 2001
Sold most of the other half of the company to current Polycon Ab management 2001-2004
Kaj Arnö’s Education
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Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan
MBA, Marketing, 1998 — 1999
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Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
M.Sc. (Eng.), Industrial Economics; Software Engineering, 1981 — 1988
- Activities and Societies:
- Teknologföreningen TFS 1985
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Kaj Arnö’s Interests:
Communities; distributed companies; languages (mainly se de en fi fr); photography; snowboarding; running; mountaineering
