Martin King
CEO Chief Executive Officer(The company name is only visible to registered members)
- 9001 St. Gallen
- Switzerland
Personal information
- Interests
- sports, mountain bike, swimming, skiing, walking, cooking, ballroom and latin dancing.
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- Entrepreneur
Educational background
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Herriot Watt, Edinburgh
Middlesex Polytechnic, London UK
- Languages
- German, English, French
About me
• Anstar AG (CEO)
• Quick Com AG, Quick Com Inc. (CEO)
• The Fantastic Corporation Vice President
• Obvious Technology Inc. Vice President – Broadband Multimedia
• Softwired AG, Softwired Inc. Director & Board Member
Consulting:
• Microsoft (Seattle), Philips, Logicworks Inc., Sulzer, Amersham International
Expertise:
• Business corporate leadership, management & corporate governance
• Sales, marketing, business development and media relations
• Strategic Relationship Management
• Recruitment, Motivation and Coaching
• P&L Management & Reporting
• Operations Management, Professional Services
• Product Marketing & Media Relations
• Private equity fund raising,Investor relations, due diligence
• Industrial development & manufacturing
• Medical systems, biosensors
• Successful business in Asia, North America & Europe
• English, German and other Languages
Biography:
Martin King has extensive international experience in the software, hardware, communications and technology industries. His skills span all aspects of strategic enterprise management and structuring including a full operational knowledge of the financial and business aspects of running an international organization.
During the course of his career, Mr. King has been a member of the Boards of several hi-tech companies (SoftWired AG, Quick Com AG), and has advised other technology, satellite and venture capital companies both in the US and abroad, including SoftSolutions Srl, Obvious Technology Inc., Liberty Capital Inc. Microsoft, Philips and PickSat. Mr. King holds numerous patents and has been widely published. He is a highly solicited speaker at leading industry conferences.
Mr. King is currently CEO of Anstar AG, a Swiss Branded Generic Pharmaceuticals Company, specialized in the manufacture, marketing and international distribution of modern branded generic pharmaceuticals around the world. Previous to this he was consulting and coaching management and projects spanning telecom, internet, systems development and international product approval. Previously he served as President and CEO of Quick Com AG, a Swiss software company founded in 1998 with subsidiaries in the USA, Canada and Italy. Mr. King split his time between Europe and New York, focusing the last two years principally on the US Market.
Prior to 1998, Mr. King was a member of the initial team that started The Fantastic Corporation, also a Swiss company. Mr. King served in several executive management positions in the organization, building the company to over 120 employees with a positive cash flow in under 18 months. He was instrumental in moving the company from the R & D stage through to successful commercial product delivery. The Fantastic Corporation pioneered technology for multimedia communications and distribution over broadband networks and had one of Europe’s most successful IPOs in 1999.
Prior to joining The Fantastic Corporation, Mr. King held positions in Landis & Gyr (now part of Siemens) where he was responsible for the development and deployment of the world’s first fully electronic Electricity meter and worked in international teams for the definition of a standard solution for digital communication over the power lines. His consultancy to leading microelectronic manufacturers Texas Instruments and Motorola led him to join the European Semiconductor Equipment Corporation (ESEC) where he led the systems design of a new generation of award winning Gold-Wire Bonders for electronic silicon packaging. ESEC carried out an extremely successful IPO in 1993.
Mr. King began his career with an apprenticeship in the National Health Service, Great Britain where he worked on the world’s first arrhythmia simulator he moved to the National Institute Medical Research where he pioneered work as a Senior Research Officer on electronic and digital signal processing systems for audio and visual sensory mapping of the brain. At this time he was also consultant to several industrial technology projects for three-dimensional interactive modeling and medical electronic systems.
Mr. King hoilds joint British and Swiss citizenship and has been a resident of Switzerland since 1990. Educated in England in microelectronics and electronic engineering, Mr. King received a Post Graduate Diploma (MSc without thesis) from Middlesex Polytechnic, London and had Electronic Engineering Diplomas from Southend-on-Sea College of Technology.
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