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Franck Ullmann, Verdoso
Franck Ullmann has managed developed and restructured a great number of companies for more than 25 years. After the sale of Sellotape to Henkel in 2002, he decided to focus exclusively on the developement of Verdoso an the coaching of the companies' managers he invests in.
John Allen
John Allen is the chairman and founding shareholder of ARC Associates. He established the US branch in the USA in 1988, and has more than ten years of experience in the telecommunications, information technology and media industries. John also led ARC’s development of property and financial services work.
He graduated with honors from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, with a M.A. degree in Political Science. He became the executive assistant to the minister of trade and industry at the Parliament of New Zealand shortly after.
John went on to The First Boston Corporation in New York and Melbourne, where he managed corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts and restructuring.
John is also a non-executive chairman of hSo and a trustee of WildInvest, a conservation charity.
John Giere
Mr. Giere provides advisory services that encompass strategic planning through success-based operational engagements. His expertise is addressing commercial challenges including: sales, marketing, business development, e-commerce, venture financing, government relations and alliance building. His clients range from start-up to publically held technology companies across energy and communications. He presently sits on the Board of Directors of VNL Limited located in New Delhi, India which designs, develops and manufactures a end to end solar powered GSM cellular network, Sonim Technologies located in San Mateo, California which develops and manufactures “Military Spec” mobile handsets, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Association located in Washington, DC which represents the collective commercial, regulatory and legislative interests of telecom software providers and equipment manufacturers and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.
Mr. Giere was previously Chief Marketing Officer of Alcatel-Lucent, a Fortune 500 company and one of the leaders in providing clients innovative communications solutions. He created the CMO function, serving in this role for five plus years, where he was responsible for the marketing, business development, strategic alliances, public relations and messaging activities of the company.
Prior to joining Lucent as their Chief Marketing Officer in Dec. 2003, Mr. Giere was eight years at LM Ericsson. He oversaw the areas of strategic marketing, business development, sales support and internal ventures. His tenure included a three and a half year assignment at the company headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden where he served as Global Marketing and Branding Officer and later as the 3G Business Development and New Sales Push leader for Ericsson Wireless Systems.
Since 2009, Mr Giere is the Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing at Openwave, an independent provider of software solutions for the communications and media industries.
Investment Director: Mathias Schilling, General Partner, BV Capital
Mathias Schilling is a co-founder and Partner at BV Capital. He leads the US office and focuses on consumer media and wireless services. He represents BV Capital on the board of Angie’s List, Appfolio, publicly traded Hi-Media (HIMD.PA), Peerflix, Sonim Technologies, Vuze.com and Yume Networks and led investments in epinions (Shopping.com) and Sonos. Prior to BV Capital, he was a Partner at Bertelsmann Ventures, where he was a board member of several portfolio companies and contributed to the successful exits of eGroups, Nuvomedia and Expertcity. Previously, Mathias was with Bertelsmann AG in their Strategic New Ventures group, working on the negotiation and execution of several joint-venture and M&A transactions. Previous work experience also include Bertelsmann's Publishing Group in New York as well as the management consultancy firm Roland Berger & Partner in Paris. He received his Master's degree in Finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Bob Plaschke, Chief Executive Officer
Bob Plaschke currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sonim Technologies, pioneer of the world’s toughest GSM phone, the Xtreme Performance 1.
For more about Bob, please view his management profile.
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