Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Beqom is the pioneer and global leader of Compensation Management, Performance Management and Pay Equity solutions.
• Companies want performance for pay and employees want pay for performance. When this works, magic happens. By helping companies treat their employees fairly in terms of performance assessments and pay, beqom provides solutions that enable performance at a high level. Beqom does this for some of the biggest companies in the world.
• Beqom is owned by private equity fund Sumeru Equity Partners.

Aug 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs

• nShift is the global leader in Cloud Delivery Management Solutions. Our platform enables the delivery of close to 1 billion annual shipments to over 190 countries.
• We offer an end-to-end cloud platform to automate and optimize the entire delivery management process – from ecommerce shop check-out delivery options to label creation to delivery tracking and last mile logistics, including returns management.
• Our software caters to the shipping needs of our +90k customers ranging from small businesses to large enterprises in various industries including retail, ecommerce, 3PL companies and manufacturing. With more than 100+ pre-built third-party integrations, it is easy to integrate to our platform regardless of your ecommerce, ERP or WMS setup.
• Our headquarters are based in London and Oslo.
• nShift is owned by private equity funds Francisco Partners and Marlin Equity Partners.

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• MaxContact is a UK based leader in AI based customer engagement solutions, e.g., for salespeople, BDRs and Customer Success. By delivering real and measurable value enjoys a 4.9 score on G2.
• MaxContact is owned by management and private equity fund FPE Capital.

Jun 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• PEPTalks is the UK’s only peer to peer learning community dedicated to supporting PE backed CEOs. As a Founding Member I support PEPTalks with their events programme, buddy system and content production. I look to pass on my experience in; understanding the unwritten rules of private equity, preparing for and executing an exit and staying match fit as a CEO. I hope I’m able to provide some shortcuts for Member CEOs and contribute to a support network that I wish I’d had first time around.

Jan 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Trumbull (CT), USA and London, UK

• QMC’s assessment technologies enable organizations to get trustworthy results when measuring knowledge for certification, pre employment testing, workforce learning, and regulatory compliance.
• Our solutions are used by many Global Fortune 500 companies across many industry sectors, government agencies in some of the world’s largest economies as well as several of the world’s highest ranking universities.
• Customers worldwide, ranging from small to very large organisations, rely on QMC’s award-winning platform for collaborative, multilingual item banking and assessment authoring; delivery via mobile devices including smartphones and tablets; secure, proctored exam delivery; and comprehensive reporting and analytics.
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• Questionmark was owned by management and private equity fund FPE Capital.

Feb 2018 – Jan 2019 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• NMI provides payments enablement technology that empowers ISOs, ISVs, VARs and payment facilitators to offer branded payment gateway services without building or maintaining their own technology. Our exceptional team of software engineers has created a security-focused, feature-rich, omnichannel payment gateway platform that partners can completely and transparently brand, removing NMI from their merchant customers’ view. Headquartered in Roselle, Illinois, NMI is the operating trade name of Network Merchants, LLC. For more information, please visit www.nmi.com.
• NMI was owned by private equity funds Francisco Partners (www.franciscopartners.com) and Great Hill Partners (www.greathillpartners.com) and by management.

Nov 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Lars D. Pedersen

• Creditcall makes card acceptance simple from any device, anywhere.
• Whether attended, unattended, online or mobile, our award-winning EMV-ready payment gateway and EMV Migration solutions are at the very heart of our clients’ businesses, ensuring payments flow – all day, every day.
• Founded in 1996, Creditcall has a proven track record in providing leading-edge payment gateway services, offering EMV migration solutions that are tried and tested. In fact...
• Our innovative EMV-compliant mPOS solutions were the first to allow businesses to accept Chip and PIN cards ‘on the go’ via smartphones and tablets.
• We revolutionized EMV with our cloud-based EMV transaction processing.
• We now offer chip-based EMV Level 1 and EMV Level 2 Kernel software used in contact and contactless environments such as ATMs, mPOS, card readers, PINpads and other devices around the world.
• Creditcall works collaboratively with companies across Europe, North and South America, South Africa and Asia-Pacific to deliver business-critical payment solutions. Clients include Atos, DHL, Elavon, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Toyota, Wayne (a GE Company) and Westfield.
• Creditcall was owned by private equity funds FPE Capital (www.fpecapital.com), and Bestport Capital (www.bestport.co.uk) and by management.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2024 · 10 yrs · Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Xena Networks was successfully sold to Teledyne Lecroy in 2024.
• Founded in 2007 and based in Denmark, Xena develops affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible Ethernet test solutions. We focus exclusively on L2-L3 gigabit Ethernet networking technology and analysis products that deliver demonstrable price/ performance leadership. In 2010, 2011 and again in 2012 we won Frost & Sullivan’s “Global Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Price Performance Value Leadership Award”. In 2011 we were also crowned as one of Red Herring Global Top 100.
• Xena Networks is owned by management and private equity fund Maj Invest A/S.

Nov 2009 – Nov 2014 · 5 yrs · Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom

• CommProve is a telecom OSS company with focus on 2G, 3G and 4G wireless networks.
• CommProve brings real-time cell awareness to the wireless market.
• Through its unique BCN (Business, Customer, Network) concept, CommProve translates physical network parameters into financial metrics and combines these with customer experience management and general network-wide QoS and QoE management.
• Commprove was owned by VCs Endeavour Vision, TVM and Joltech and by management.

Aug 2006 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Santa Barbara County, California, United States

• RESON Inc. is the US activities of RESON A/S, a sonar equipment company.
• RESON provides sonar equipment to the offshore industry for pipeline inspection, to the hydrography industry for sea bottom surveys and to navies for obstacle avoidance and waterside security.
• RESON was sold to Teledyne.
• RESON was owned by private equity funds Maj Invest A/S and DanCap and by management.

Aug 2005 – Jun 2006 · 10 mos · Utica-Rome Area

• Anritsu Instruments Group is a $55m field test equipment company focusing on wireless and optical test equipment and with development sites in New York, Copenhagen and Paris.

Dec 2004 – Aug 2005 · 8 mos

• Deputy CEO of NetTest (subsidiary of GN Store Nord) a $120m telecom test equipment company with activity in service assurance, wireless protocol analysers, fiber optic test equipment, fiber optic network management platform, lab test equipment (optical and protocol), network performance management solutions and professional and managed services.
• NetTest was sold to Anritsu.
• NetTest was owned by private equity fund Axcel A/S (www.axcel.dk) and by management.

Jan 2003 – Aug 2005 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• P&L responsibility for $40m business unit of NetTest within wireless protocol analyzers, fiber optic field test equipment, performance management systems and fiber optic network management systems.

Oct 2002 – Dec 2002 · 2 mos

• In charge of sales for the Americas for wireless protocol test equipment and service assurance solutions. Led team to major win with AT&T Wireless for multi-year, multi-million dollars service assurance contract.

Sep 2001 – Oct 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo

• In charge of global start-up business unit within fiber optic network monitoring solutions.

Dec 1999 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos

• At GN Nettest in New York, a subsidiary of GN Store Nord, in charge of all sales outside of North America.

Sep 1998 – Nov 1999 · 1 yr 2 mos

• At GN Nettest in New York, a subsidiary of GN Store Nord, in charge of all sales outside of North America.

Jan 1997 – Aug 1998 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Product manager for advanced optical technologies.

Oct 1995 – Dec 1996 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Product manager for the OTDR product line at GN Nettest.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1995 · 3 yrs · Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

• Beat the world record in unrepeatered fiber optic transmission distance at 2.5Gbit/s.
• Beat the world record in optical preamplifier sensitivity at 2.5Gbit/s.

Jan 1991 – Jan 1992 · 1 yr

• Invented fiber optic test system for research into high speed ultra long haul optical transmission