Gerard de Bourbon Founder CEO

Mr de Bourbon is an executive with more than 28 plus years of significant international management, sales, marketing, consulting, strategy, business development, digital transformation, Semiconductors IoT, Nano IoT, Security, AI, blockchain, cognitive and neural networking, contextual learning, finance, operations, mergers and acquisitions background gained at several blue-chip, companies in the IT /Telecom industry, Finance, such as Verizon, Broadcom, IBM, HP, Nokia, EHPT / Ericsson-Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications, and Chrysler Capital. Active in ESG sustainability venture incubation and co-creator with leading R&D labs in Europe. Mr. de Bourbon is a Math and Physics Graduate. He completed an MBA at the Stockholm School of Economics and also attended INSEAD / France, Darden University & Harvard University / USA, where he completed non-degreed corporate-sponsored executive programs. Mr de Bourbon has taken companies public and exited a successful venture pioneering M2M connectivity, IoT, and mobility functionality in the healthcare sector

Magnus Ryde Founder COO

Magnus Ryde has more than 25 years experience in semiconductors and building high tech startups. Magnus previously held positions as VP, Field operations and Sales at KLA-Tencor and President North America at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). Magnus also was the CEO of FlexICs (a flexible screen spin-out from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California), Intematix (a provider of phosphor LEDs for solid state lighting), and Daystar Technologies (a CIGS thin film PV solar energy company in Silicon Valley.  Magnus holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Linköping University and Stanford University and an Executive MBA from Stanford University.

Jari Strandman
Board Member

Founder Partner Nordic Science Investments

Specialised in the commercialisation of ideas and inventions. Experience includes business development, partnerships and internationalisation of startup companies, both as an entrepreneur and a board member, in Finland, Canada and the UK.

Strong international business experience from large, international technology corporations, such as Sisu and Partek Cargotec, as well as small and medium size companies. Co-founder of several university-based startups in Finland and abroad.

Long experience in working in the interface between industry and academia, including partnerships with most of the Finnish universities, MIT's Industrial Liaisons Program and commercialising research originated at Oxford University. 

Matti Hautsalo
Board Member

Founder Partner Nordic Science Investments

Versatile investment professional with the strategy, management and negotiation skills acquired over 15 years in venture capital and through board memberships of various start-ups, many of the science based companies with distinct IP portfolio. In addition, I have gained solid experience in the fields of asset management, investment banking, and management consultancy, as well as emerging country economics

Prof. Lars Montelius Scientific Advisor 

H-index 36: 180 publications, 4.897 citations, last 5 years ≈250 citations/year. Data from ISI Web of Knowledge 2019-06-17. More than 100 personally invited talks. 25 EPO patent applications.

Professor Emeritus, Lund University, 2020-present Director General for INL .Chief Executive Director, Öresund University & The Öresund Science.

Dean Physics Department (50%) 2003-07-01—2008-12-31

Professor, Lund University, 2000-2020

Since Sept 1, 2014, Montelius is the Director General for INL,The International Iberian nanotechnology Laboratory located in Braga,

Björn Segerblom
Strategic Advisor 

Based in Hong Kong, he was engaged by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation for 12+ years, with the goal to transform Hong Kong into the regional hub for innovation and technology, as the Overseas Representative in Europe with the main focus upon Scandinavia, the UK and Belgium. He also opened up Germany, France, and Switzerland as part of this project.

He gained extensive international industrial management and marketing experience from senior positions while at Bofors, Nitro Nobel, and Nordstjernan of Sweden. He then spent 15 years as regional Asia-Pacific chief executive for the Swiss multinational group SGS Societe Generale de Surveillance, based in Geneva, Hong Kong, Japan, and the Philippines.

His wide international experience spans chemical, turnkey contracting, industrial explosives, and mechanical engineering industries as well as certification, inspection, and verification services for industries and governments, plus extensive exposure to incubation and start-up communities, including interaction with government and business agencies in Hong Kong and Europe.

Mr. Segerblom has also served many years on the Board, including as Chairman, of The Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in Sweden, and is now the Honorary Chairman and Hong Kong Representative. He lives in Hong Kong since 2001.

He earned a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.