Peter Arvai

Current

• CEO at Prezi
• Founder at Sanocore

Past

• VP of Product Management at Mobispine
• Analyst and project manager at Mobispine
• Business Analyst at JakeBox

• Master Thesis Worker at Swedish Trade Council
• Trainee at Fuji Xerox
• Producer & Choreographer at Dansemble

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Education

• Stockholms universitet
• Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
• Vulcanus in Japan Program

• National University of Singapore

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Industry

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Websites

• My Company
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• My Book

Peter Arvai’s Summary

I want to show people how inspiring ideas can change the world

Peter Arvai’s Specialties:

Digital media development, project management, business development, interaction design.

Language skills
Fluent: Swedish, English, Hungarian
Intermediate: Japanese

Peter Arvai’s Experience

• CEO

  Prezi

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Heading www.prezi.com

• Founder

  Sanocore

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Sanocore develops and maintains www.omvard.se
  Omvard is making the results of Swedish health care providers available to Swedish consumers.

• VP of Product Management

  Mobispine

  (Public Company; MOBS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  Headed mobile ad development
  Planned all product development
  Assisted in an IPO and two acquisitions
  Managed relations with SonyEricsson and Nokia
  Protagonist for a simple consumer offering and a perpetual beta product development philosophy

• Analyst and project manager

  Mobispine

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2006 — March 2007 (9 months)

  Responsible for customer integrations
  Formulated business plans and investor memorandums
  Was in charge of developing new projects and divisions for our business.

• Business Analyst

  JakeBox

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)

  August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

  Spearheaded the formulation of a business plan and an investor’s memorandum to be used for a share issue by start-up company JakeBox AB.

• Master Thesis Worker

  Swedish Trade Council

  (Government Agency; Management Consulting industry)

  February 2005 — June 2005 (5 months)

  Delivered a report on media related IT business opportunities.

• Trainee

  Fuji Xerox

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Media Production industry)

  January 2003 — August 2003 (8 months)

  Traineeship with Fuji Xerox consisted of developing a research project on automatic video indexing of business meetings. Interaction with work colleagues was in Japanese.

• Producer & Choreographer

  Dansemble

  (Performing Arts industry)

  May 1998 — April 1999 (1 year )

  Production was first locally produced dance performance in Karlskoga, and seen by about 2000 persons

Peter Arvai’s Education

• Stockholms universitet

  Master , Business Administration , 2001 — 2006

  Master Thesis is published and marketed: http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Business-Case-Mobile-Service/dp/3639048156

• Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

  Master , Media Technology Engineering , 1999 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Stockholm Student Radio, Associated
  Students of the Media Programme

• Vulcanus in Japan Program

  Japanese business practices, Japanese language 2002 — 2003

  The Vulcanus in Japan Program is a 12 month grant awarded by the EU and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. It consists in 4 months of Japanese language, culture and business practices courses, and 8 months of internship in a Japanese company (see above).
  references : EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (www.vulcanusalumni.net)

• National University of Singapore

  Exchange semester , Economics

Additional Information

Peter Arvai’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company
• My Book

Peter Arvai’s Interests:

New media technology, new media/ICT business models, current affairs, international travel, gourmet cooking, performing arts

Peter Arvai’s Groups:

Co-founded the Alumni Association for Media Technology Students at the Royal Institute of Technology. www.medieteknik.com/alumni

•    Vulcanus Alumni
•    KTH medieteknik alumni
•    Xerox Extended
•    The Economist Newspaper readers
•    Silicon Vikings
•    Sweden Networking Group
•    Business in Japan
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
•    Swedish Startups

Peter Arvai’s Honors:

Published author, Developing the Business Case for a New Mobile Service, ISBN-10: 3639048156

Best Local Radio Program, 2003
Scholarship, Sasakawa Foundation, 1999
Scholarship, Sweden-Japan Foundation, 1999

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