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    Wirepas About us Board of Directors

    Board of Directors

    Andrew Gilbert

    Andrew Gilbert, Chairman

    Born: 1963

    Present Position: Founding Director of Gildrew Limited offering advisory services to industry including clients such as Qualcomm, OMG PLC, Spidercloud Wireless, Canary Connect and Innovator Capital. Non-executive Director of Drayson Technologies, an early stage company involved in wireless energy and personal health space.

    Primary Working experience: executive vice president, European Innovation Development of Qualcomm Europe, Inc., vice president and general manager of Flarion Technologies’ European, Middle Eastern and African regions (EMEA).

    Benedikt Herles

    Benedikt von Schoeler, Advisor to the Board

    Born: 1979

    Present Position: Managing Partner, Vito Ventures

    Education: Master in Economics, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
    MBA, INSEAD Fontainebleau, France and Singapore

    Primary working experience: More than 10 years experience of investing. Principal at Private Equity Firm HgCapital / Managing Partner at Vito Ventures

    Current and previous board involvements: Qundis, Casa Reha, SimonsVoss, Wirepas, Crate.io, micropsi industries GmbH

    Carl Erik Mattila

    Carl-Erik Mattila, Member of the Board

    Born: 1953

    Present Position: Partner at Topnet Oy

    Education: Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki

    Primary working experience: Various CFO and Board postions in internationally operating (mainly industrial) groups of companies for the last 35 years, entrepeneur for the last 45 years.

    Board member at: Wirepas Oy, Primoceler Oy, Topnet Oy

    Jorgen Lantto

    Jörgen Lantto, Member of the Board

    Born: 1963

    Present Position: Board Member Wirepas

    Education: Technical College, Telecommunications, Midskogsskolan, Luleå

    Primary working experience: President and CEO, Fingerprint Cards AB, Executive VP and CTO, ST-Ericsson, CEO Alice Systems AB, 25 years in Ericsson in different positions

    Board member at: myFC, Zwipe

    Patrick Sheehan

    Patrick Sheehan, Member of the Board

    Born: 1960

    Present Position: ETF Partners, Managing Partner

    Education: Ph.D. in electronics, University College London

    Primary Working Experience: Managing Director of 3i Venture Capital for over 20 years and founding partner at ETF Partners.

    Sami Lampinen

    Sami Lampinen, Member of the Board

    Born: 1970

    Present Position: Managing Partner, Inventure

    Education: Master of Science, Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology

    Primary working experience: Venture capital investor in Nordic early-stage technology companies since 1997. Founder of Inventure in 2005.

    Board member at: Canatu Oy, Freespee AB, Wirepas Oy, KNL Networks Oy, Mekitec Oy, Upcloud Oy

    Teppo Hemia

    Teppo Hemiä, Member of the Board

    Born: 1972

    Present position: CEO and President, Wirepas

    Education: Master of Science, Tampere Universtity of Technology

    Primary working experinece: Several demanding positions at Nokia, STMicroelectronics and ST-Ericsson.

    Vesa Laisi

    Vesa Laisi, Advisor to the Board

    Born: 1957

    Present Position: Drives Segment President at Danfoss A/S

    Education: Master of Science, Electronics, University of Technology, Tampere Finland; Master of Science, Economics, University of Economics, Helsinki Finland

    Primary working experience: President and CEO at Vacon Plc; Marketing Director at Vaisala Plc; Vice President at ABB