Christian O. Petersen

CloudMade offers a better way of adding customized maps and geo data to mobile apps and websites. Our platform enables our large and fast growing community of developers to make their map/geo enabled applications highly targeted through advanced APIs and completely customizable maps. To help our developers monetize their applications we are extending the platform with a choice of revenue models directly available in our APIs.

Cogniance is one of the leading full-service software consultancies in the software industry, focusing on servicing early-stage, venture backed, cutting edge technology companies. Cogniance offers services within ideation, specification, use case development, architecture, coding, test, deployment and data center management. Specializing in complex, leading edge projects for early stage venture backed technology companies.

Progression builds world-class, game-changing companies. The partnership takes a high-value-added, analytical and exclusive approach to building companies. The Progression team is made up by a hands-on team of individuals with management, investment, marketing and product experience, gained from having held senior leadership and board positions in companies, ranging from very large public companies to small, embryonic start-ups.

CloudMade is leading a revolution in how people across the world use maps. Doing to maps what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedias, CloudMade is working with a rapidly growing mapping community to map every nook and cranny of the world. Every day, thousands of individuals are spending more than an hour creating maps that are more accurate, more up-to-date and more relevant than any map ever made.

Sonopia is a mobile operator running on Verizons network. Sonopia’s platform makes it easy for anyone—whether a major organization or an entrepreneurial individual – to become a mobile carrier in 15 minutes or less and offer their members or customers branded wireless services right away – including branded handsets, calling plans and both web and mobile content tailored to their community.

At Macromedia Inc, I was responsible for all mobile product planning. This involved identification of product opportunities and analyzes of important acquisition opportunities from a product perspective. I worked closely with top management, product managers, sales, marketing and engineering to gather a variety of external and internal input to develop an overall product strategy and plan consistent with the corporate strategy and market requirements.

As a consultant on Consumer Facing Internet Applications, I helped varies companies and organization building successful Rich Internet Applications targeting consumers. Among these projects was helping Symbian and Microsoft in targeting mobile subscribers by using the Internet for Subscriber Acquisition, and creating experiences that attract users and keep them coming back.

Pioneering opt-in marketing company, merged with Jatak.com in 2002, creating one of the largest email marketing companies in Northern Europe with about 700,000 members.

Advertainers – making it fun to click. Helping consumer brand holders build their brand on the through entertaining Rich Internet Applications – Advertainment. The entertaining applications was built around the brand, and provided the brand holders such as Domino’s, Kellogg’s, Leaf, LEGO, Mars and Nestlé with a very strong tool for emotional brand building.

Media Mix was for many years Denmark’s leading multimedia developer and considered the leading Danish authority on developing with Director and later Flash. Media Mix was self-financed.

Chairman and founder multimediabranchen.dk – Multimedia Industry Association At the largest Danish multimedia exhibition in 1996, I organized a founding meeting for the first Danish Multimedia Industry Association. I was elected Chairman the first 2 years and the association quickly became influential in both the industry, the press and towards the government. Today the multimediabranchen.dk has merged with The Danish IT Industry Association.