Juha Christensen

Partner / Gesellschafter, Partner, Progression Partners

Menlo Park, Vereinigte Staaten

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Juha Christensen

  • Bis heute 15 Jahre und 9 Monate, seit Sep. 2008

    Board Member

    VirtualLogix

    VirtualLogix is a private company with investments from Index, DFJ, Atlas, Texas Instruments, Intel, Cisco and Motorola. VirtualLogix enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware and provides a range of performance, fault tolerance and security options to address specific market requirements. As a result, the world's largest semiconductor companies, manufacturers, OEMs and carriers are able to reduce development, bill of material costs and improve time to market.

  • Bis heute 16 Jahre und 3 Monate, seit März 2008

    CEO & Chairman

    CloudMade

    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.

  • Bis heute 16 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit Feb. 2008

    Partner

    Progression Partners

    Progression builds world-class, game-changing companies. The partnership takes a high-value-added, analytical and exclusive approach to building value. 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.

  • Bis heute 16 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit Feb. 2008

    Chairman

    Cogniance

    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. With offices in Menlo Park, California and Kyiv, Ukraine, 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.

  • Bis heute 16 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit Feb. 2008

    Board Member

    Silicon Valley Pad

    Silicon Valley Pad is more than just office space. It’s a space for startups, entrepreneurs and other professionals that need a ready-to-go workspace and atmosphere that helps accelerate their growth. Silicon Valley Pad operates its first large site in Menlo Park in the heart of Silicon Valley, and minutes from downtown Palo Alto.

  • Bis heute 19 Jahre und 4 Monate, seit Feb. 2005

    Venture Partner and Co-Founder

    Sunstone Capital

    Founding Venture Partner at Sunstone Capital, the leading Venture Capital player in Northern Europe, with more than $750 million under management and offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and Menlo Park, California. Sunstone focuses on early-stage investments and currently has a portfolio of over 38 investments across Technology and Life Science.

  • Bis heute 20 Jahre und 6 Monate, seit Dez. 2003

    Board Member

    Teleca

    Member of Teleca's board of directors. Teleca is, with its 2,000 employees in 11 countries, the mobile industry's largest Systems Integrator. Over 40% of the world's handsets are 'touched by Teleca', the largest software integration partner to Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and a major supplier of services to Samsung, LG and a number of other handset makers.

  • 3 Jahre und 1 Monat, Apr. 2005 - Apr. 2008

    CEO

    Sonopia Corporation

    Launched in April 2007, Sonopia has changed the way people think about mobile service. Sonopia makes it easy for anyone—whether a major organization or an entrepreneurial individual – to become a mobile carrier in a matter of minutes, and offer their constituents a full-service wireless package—complete with a selection of branded handsets, calling plans to suit a variety of lifestyles, and access to exclusive content tailored to their personal interests.

  • 4 Jahre und 5 Monate, Sep. 2003 - Jan. 2008

    Board Member

    Unwire

    Unwire (sold to LD Equity in January, 2008) is with it's 80% market share Northern Europe's leader in mobile operator and broadcast solutions. Unwire's mobile broadcast platform significantly cuts down time-to-market for media companies wanting to offer mobile applications.

  • 1 Jahr und 3 Monate, Dez. 2003 - Feb. 2005

    President

    Macromedia

    President of Macromedia Mobile and Consumer Electronics efforts. Drove planning, strategy, engineering, marketing and sales globally. Also ran company wide planning.

  • 3 Jahre und 7 Monate, Juli 2000 - Jan. 2004

    Board Member and Executive Committee Member

    CTIA

    oard Member and Member of the Executive Committee of CTIA, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. CTIA is the international association for the wireless industry, dedicated to expanding the wireless frontier.

  • 3 Jahre und 9 Monate, Apr. 2000 - Dez. 2003

    Corporate Vice President

    Microsoft

    Microsoft's mobile devices efforts aimed at subscribers, carriers and OEMs.

  • 4 Jahre und 5 Monate, Dez. 1995 - Apr. 2000

    Co-Founder & Executive Vice President

    Symbian

    Operating systems for mobile phones

  • 4 Jahre, Jan. 1992 - Dez. 1995

    Vice President

    Psion

    Maker of handheld computers and PDAs

Ausbildung von Juha Christensen

  • 4 Jahre und 1 Monat, Jan. 1995 - Jan. 1999

    Business Administration studies

    Studied Business Administration at London Business School

Sprachen

  • Deutsch

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  • Englisch

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  • Dänisch

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Interessen

Tennis
Skiing
Travel
Software Development
Mobile Services

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