Investor and IT Entrepreneur
Iceland
- Current
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- Chairman of the Board at Verne Holdings
- Senior Partner at Teton Capital
- Chairman of the Board at CCP
- Past
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- Chairman of the Board at TM Software
- Board member at Opin Kerfi Group
- Board member at Hands ASA
- Board member at Dagsbrún hf
- Board member at Kögun hf
- CTO at Extrada, Ltd.
- Board member at CCP
- Board member at Ax Business Intelligence
- Lead Architect, Common Technologies Division at Baan N.V.
- Senior Technical Manager at CODA Group plc
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
Vilhjalmur (Villi) Thorsteinsson’s Summary
Chairman of the Board of Verne Holdings, a start-up company building a campus of data centers in Iceland. Chairman of the board of CCP Games, a developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online games, one of which is EVE-Online. Senior partner at Teton Capital, a hedge fund management company.
Entrepreneur in the IT & telecom industry for 25 years. Co-founder of Iceland Software Inc. 1983, sold to CODA Group plc 1993, acquired by Baan N.V. 1997. Served as Lead Architect for Common Technologies division of Baan. Co-founded Homeportal, Inc. (now called Extrada Ltd.) 2000. Investor in and board member of several startup companies in IT-related fields.
Previously a board member of numerous Nordic software, telecommunications and IT companies, private and public, including Kögun, OgVodafone, Dagsbrún, Opin Kerfi, Hands ASA and Skýrr.
Vilhjalmur (Villi) Thorsteinsson’s Specialties:
Board-level management of public and private companies in IT related industries. Macro-economic bond, currency and derivatives trading. Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Application Integration, e-business, pervasive computing, digitally delivered services, robust platforms, compilers.
Vilhjalmur (Villi) Thorsteinsson’s Experience
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Chairman of the Board
Verne Holdings
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
Chairman of the Board of Verne Holdings, a private start-up company building a campus of data centers in Iceland, drawing on the country's abundant green and sustainable energy.
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Senior Partner
Teton Capital
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
One of three senior partners at Teton Capital, a privately held macro-economic hedge fund management company. Manage a portfolio of hedged investments in bonds, currencies, derivatives.
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Chairman of the Board
CCP
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Rapidly growing CCP produces and sells the massive multiplayer online game EVE Online.
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Chairman of the Board
TM Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)
Chairman of the board of directors of TM Software, a privately held software and IT services company in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company's subsidiaries include Origo (contracting, web development), Theriak (medication management systems), Vigor (energy and public sector), and Skyggnir (managed services and hosting). Was asked by key shareholders to lead a restructuring and preparation for trade sale, which was successfully completed.
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Board member
Opin Kerfi Group
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 9 months)
Member of the board of directors of Opin Kerfi Group, a Nordic IT group with annual revenues of around $200m.
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Board member
Hands ASA
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — April 2007 (1 year)
Board member of Hands ASA, a leading Norwegian software and services company specializing in Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software and related products
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Board member
Dagsbrún hf
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ICEX:DB; Telecommunications industry)
November 2000 — November 2006 (6 years 1 month)
Board member of Dagsbrún hf., previously called Íslandssími and OgVodafone. Dagsbrún was a public listed company on ICEX in telecommunications, media (print, television, radio) and IT. I was an independent (outside) board member.
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Board member
Kögun hf
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ICEX:KOGN; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2000 — November 2006 (6 years 8 months)
Board member and largest individual investor in Kögun hf, a public Icelandic software and information technology group with close to $300m in revenue. Kögun was acquired by Dagsbrún in March of 2006.
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CTO
Extrada, Ltd.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — August 2006 (6 years 6 months)
Leading product development and architecture, analysis of industry trends and technology opportunities, advisory for business strategy
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Board member
CCP
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 3 months)
Became Chairman of the board in March 2006
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Board member
Ax Business Intelligence
(Computer Software industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
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Lead Architect, Common Technologies Division
Baan N.V.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1997 — March 2000 (2 years 5 months)
Responsible for overall technical architecture in the Common Technologies Division of Baan Development, including integration technology, workflow, executive information systems and other supporting software. Main focus was on object-oriented integration model for the BaanERP suite of applications.
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Senior Technical Manager
CODA Group plc
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1993 — November 1997 (4 years 1 month)
Responsible for the product architecture vision for CODA, a UK public company producing advanced financial application software. Led a team of software architects in defining the next generation of the software, including object oriented design and rapid application development principles.
