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We provide international market entry and expansion services, incl. strategic advice and result-orientated operations support. Listérus & Partners specialize in expansion of business by, for instance, rapid "internationalization". Industry focus is IT/ Telecoms and Semiconductors. Listérus & Partners offers high performance business development and 'instant' greater geographical reach. Excellent success stories with Start-up's, SME's and Blue Chips.

Founder of a consulting company specializing in providing strategy development, market entry, business development and marketing services for companies wanting to grow their business into new product or geographical areas.

Axel Technologies is a global pioneer in mobile broadcast TV and Internet TV technology. Axel’s product, Fuugo, has two product lines; FuugoTV for broadcast TV and Fuugo Platform for OTT & VOD solutions. I was part of the company management team and executive director of the board. My main personal tasks were to lead the worldwide sales & marketing organization in 8 countries.

Responsible for the operations of InterVideo's handheld business unit in Europe; directing the development to suit needs of European customers, sales for mobile OEMs and establishing partnerships. InterVideo was acquired by Corel Corporation in the end of 2006 and in April 2007, the handheld BU span out as Cidana Corporation.

Emuzed was a multimedia solutions company. We created multimedia hardware and software, products and technologies for the Embedded market. I started and was in charge of Emuzed's sales & marketing in Europe leading it into a multi-million dollar annual business. Emuzed was acquired by Flextronics International Ltd in Feb 2005 and merged into Aricent Inc in 2006.

I held several sales positions as a sales director or key account manager at Lexmark Finland, Compaq Computers Finland and Seasam House.