Board of Directors

The Board of Directors consists of top managers in the private sector, universities and public authorities in the Øresund Region.

Niels Bo Theilgaard (chairman), Founder and CEO of NBTI (Born 1952).
Holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in systems science from the Technical University of Denmark. Niels Bo Theilgaard has been in the IT industry for nearly 25 years, and formerly worked at Bang & Olufsen as its IT Director as well as Division Manager for the Beologic Division. He was one of the founders of the Beologic company in 1995. When the company was sold to Baan in 1997 he became Vice Precident of Baan's CRM division, and from July 1999 he was also CEO for Baan Nordic A/S. In 2000 he joined Navision Software a/s as Executive Vice President for the Navision Product Division. As of 11 July 2002 Navision a/s became part of Microsoft Business Solutions, he stayed as General Manager for the development organization in Copenhagen with 300 people. He is member of the board of 7-Technologies A/S, Synkron A/S, Celenia A/S, and I-motions Technology A/S.

Malin Ruijsenaars, Chief Personnel Officer at Axis Communications.

Kim Østrup, Vice president, IBM Denmark A/S (Born 1945).
After graduating in economics with a Bachelor of Politics from the University of Copenhagen he joined IBM Denmark in 1971. Østrup held various positions in marketing including management of marketing training for IBM Nordic (NEC) when he took over Management Development in 1982. Since then Østrup has headed a number of special projects and staff positions and today he is External Programs Executive for Nordic. In addition to IBM, Østrup holds a number of positions in industry including Vice-Chairman of the Danish IT-industry Association, Member of the Board of The Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Board of ITEK, Chairman of the Danish electronic research Library, Member of the board of the IT University in Copenhagen.

Göran Svennarp, SonyEricsson.

André Rogaczewski, Netcompany A/S.

Per Warfvinge, Lund University, Institute of Technology (LU/LTH).

Jan Damsgaard, Professor, Copenhagen Business School (Born in 1966).
Completing his Master of Science in Computer Science in 1993, Jan Damsgaard holds a Ph.D and European Doctorate in Information Systems from Aalborg University in Denmark. He is currently a full time professor at Copenhagen Business School since 2003. Jan Damsgaard is a firm believer of interdisciplinary research, and has his main research fields within IT standards and organizational IT infrastructure and network economics. Prior to his current position, he was associate professor at dept. of computer science at Aalborg University. His academic experience is expansive thanks to an elaborative research and he has held a number of positions in universities around the world as visiting professor.

Paul Davidsson, Malmö Universty.

Finn Kensing, Copenhagen University.

Monica Kraft, Region Skåne.

Jan Kold, Region Hovedstaden.

Stefan Johansson, Invest in Skåne.

Annette Birch, Forsknings og Innovationsstyrelsen.