
Vice President Database Community at Sun Microsystems
Munich Area, Germany

Vice President Database Community at Sun Microsystems
Munich Area, Germany
Software industry generalist, having serving as VP Professional Services, VP Engineering, CIO and VP Community Relations of MySQL AB prior to the acquisition by Sun. Now MySQL Ambassador to Sun and Sun VP of Database Community. Board member of Productive Business Systems Ab (Åland). Past founder, CEO and 14 year main entrepreneur of Polycon Ab (Finland).
The world's most popular Open Source database.
Cultural awareness
Distributed companies
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
July 2009 — Present (9 months)
Establishing Runnism, the Religion of Running
Worshipping Physical Well-Being
Sharing the joys of running through Social Media
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (2 years )
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Board member for the largest IT solution provider on the Åland Islands (between Sweden and Finland) http://www.pbs.ax
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Investment Management industry)
November 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 6 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)
(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.
(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.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2003 — March 2004 (5 months)
VP Professional Services (Support, Training, Certification, Consulting)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 2 months)
Launching MySQL AB's consulting activities
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 6 months)
Launched MySQL AB's training activities
(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
MBA , Marketing , 1998 — 1999
M.Sc. (Eng.) , Industrial Economics; Software Engineering , 1981 — 1988
1972 — 1981
Communities; distributed companies; languages (mainly se de en fi fr); photography; snowboarding; running; mountaineering