Kristofer Skantze

Chairman of the Board of the Caribbean Rex focusing on oil exploration in Trinidad.

Responsible for operations including inclusion of new ventures and management of existing concessions we hold either direct, via subsidiaries or associate companies.

• Developed sales and marketing organization from 1 to 10 people • Overall responsible for partner alliances including leading textile brands • Marketing development and promotion responsible including B2C and B2B brand development • Ensure a team atmosphere and positive employee relations Accomplishments - Grew sales with over 3’000% in 5 years - Launched four new products to brands and mills worldwide and 3 B2C and 2B2B textile effect brands - Set up distribution network on 4 continents

• Managed partner network and was responsible for all new North American customers • Offered strong technical and sales licensing support to customers Accomplishments - Significantly grew and supported the distribution and partner network, leading to staff increase from 1 to 6 people and increase in company revenue. - Defined and implemented verticalized focus initiatives - Reworked and proposed new company business model which was later implemented in the entire company

• Managed several large, medium and small Asian and European accounts Accomplishments - Negotiated terms and new projects with Hewlett-Packard post launch of the HP Forms Automation System securing more revenue and good customer relationship - Defined, wrote and negotiated the technical specification and commercial arrangement for Dai Nippon Printing ($18B company)

• Managed a team of over 15 people as responsible for the technology development and licensing towards Hewlett- Packard in their $15 M Forms Automation Solution development project • Responsible for technology licensing and development towards Dai Nippon Printing (JP) in their $10 M project Accomplishments - Delivered large complex IT project on time and on budget to two of the company’s most important customer

• Developed and implemented business plan for banking and finance market vertical linked to in several new patents and formation of business vertical within company. Accomplishments - Invented products and solutions which resulted in ten granted patent families for which I was awarded the Anoto patent award.

Cryptography Programming Finance and risk management