The Jury

The jury for SIME Awards 09 consists of a handpicked team of experts within the areas Internet, technology, journalism and entrepreurship.

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Joakim Jardenberg

Joakim Jardenberg

A true veteran in the field. Joakim was there from the very beginning at Aftonbladet.se, Sweden’s largest web site, and has since then worked with most of the larger media companies in Sweden. Active blogger and profile in both new and old media industries. Commercial head of development at Helsingborgs Dagblad, today CEO for development company Mindpark. Earlier career as a photographer and as an officer.

Twitter Jocke
Blog: jardenberg.se

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Pontus Schultz

Pontus Schultz

Pontus Schultz, born August 22 1972 in Bromma in Stockholm, a Swedish journalist, columnist, debater and entrepreneur, is the Editor-in-Chief for Veckans Affärer. He is a frequent social commentator, especially in media issues, and has appeared several times in the Swedish Television, in particular in the 1990s in particular, and the 2000s in the debate. Schultz was also active during the IT bubble and is an expert on digital TV. Resumé have appointed him Sweden’s fortieth most powerful publisher in 2008.

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Hjalmar Winbladh

Hjalmar Winbladh

Hjalmar Winbladh is a serial entrepreneur from Sweden. Today he is CEO of Rebtel, which he co-founded in early 2006. His previous venture was Sendit AB, which pioneered mobile Internet services via mobile operators in 1994. He and his co-founder, Jonas Lindroth took Sendit public in Sweden in 1997 and was later acquired in 1999 for $150 million by Microsoft where Winbladh served as general manager of Microsoft’s Mobile Internet Business Unit until 2001.

Twitter HjalmarWinbladh

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Andreas Dahlstrom

Andreas Dahlstrom

Andreas Dahlstrom is the founder of Peerialism AB which develops peerialistic solutions to transport and store data on the Internet. Example solutions are video distribution for content owners and IP traffic optimization for broadband operators.

Web: www.peerialism.com

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Sofia Svanteson

Sofia Svanteson

Sofia is the founder and CEO of Ocean Observations, a company designing usable, useful and beautiful mobile services and products. She is devoted to travelling the world meeting users from different cultures and thrilled about Ocean’s current projects in Japan for operator KDDI. She is also a member of Beckers’ advisory committee on consumer electronics and industry changes and is during fall 2009 setting up a new product company

Twitter: sofiasvanteson

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Johan Siwers

Johan Siwers

Johan Siwers is a seasoned online media executive with a passion for entrepreneurial game changing companies. Johan has over the past 15 years been involved in breaking ground for a wide range of media and online media ventures within companies like Kinnevik, Spray, Shibsted and InterActive Corp (IAC). Johan is today the Managing Director of Match.com Nordics, part of Meetic [ticker code: MEET], the No1 online personals player in Europe. Johan is also a partner in Tigerline Ventures and on the board of Swedish J-album

Twitter siwers
Blog: siwers.blogspot.com

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Tommy Ahlers

Tommy Ahlers

Tommy Ahlers (born 1976) is a Danish serial entrepreneur best known for the social networking and mobile backup site ZYB, launched in 2005 with two other entrepreneurs from Copenhagen, Morten Lund and Ole Kristensen, and sold to Vodafone Europe BV. Before founding ZYB, where he has held the position of CEO since the company’s inception, Ahlers spent six years in strategy and management, partly in the mobile industry

Twitter aahlers
Blog: blog.zyb.com

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Nikolaj Nyholm

Nikolaj Nyholm

Nikolaj Nyholm is an accomplished Internet Entrepreneur and open source advocate who has spent the last 10 years pushing the forefront of Internet infrastructure projects through commercial ventures or community activity.

Nikolaj currently serves as CEO of Polar Rose, a visual search engine. Polar Rose was named a World Economic Forum (Davos) 2008 Technology Pioneer, a Red Herring Global 100 winner, and consistently tops the lists of the most promising and awarded startups in Scandinavia.

Nikolaj is founding investor and board member of CloudMade, the open geodata company behind OpenStreetMap.org, a ‘Wikipedia of maps’, board member of Epista A/S, and co-organizer of reboot (http://reboot.dk), a heralded conference that has for 11 years drawn a community of visionaries from across Europe and North America to Copenhagen each June to discuss topics within technology and culture.

Twitter nikolaj
Blog:
blog.polarrose.com/

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Jonas Hombert

Jonas Hombert

Jonas is the CEO and co-founder of JayCut, a company providing video editing which runs in a web browser and on mobile devices, to customers like Procter&Gamble. Today 23 years old, he has previously been elected as one of Europes top young entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek.

Twitter jonashombert
Blog: business.jaycut.com/

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Ann Westfelt

Ann Westfelt

Educator, speaker and advanced coach with a broad experience within marketing and media. Experience: MIS Manager Wang Computer, Product Manager Nordic Area Apple Computer, Head Master at Masters of Media, CEO production agency Drax Industries, has produced over 100 media productions, Marketing Manager Superbrands, educates at Berghs School of Communication and Hyper Island.

Twitter: ann_westfelt
Blog: blogg.visionary.se

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Pasi Niittymaki

Pasi Niittymaki

Pasi Niittymäki is the CEO of Nitro. Nitro marketing communications combine both digital media and film production. The broad business concept has enabled a continuous and rapid growth over the past 7 years in the Finnish market. Aside the project business, Nitro group companies includes five separate businesses from an ecological social network to game development.

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Peter Vesterbacka

Peter Vesterbacka

Active in the industry of branding, mobile e-services ecosystem building and enablement.

Twitter pvesterbacka

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Henrik Tortensson

Henrik Tortensson

Henrik Torstensson is General Manager, Piczo and SVP Strategy at Stardoll. He is a Board Member at Videoplaza and writes one of the leading Internet blogs in the Nordic countries.

Twitter henrikt
Blog: torstensson.com/weblog

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Vetle Søvik

Vetle Søvik

Vetle is the marketing and sales development head of Startsiden, a leading Norwegian internet portal providing the norwegian internett users with 100.000 editorial selected links and services. Startsiden has been one of the largest norwegian internet sites since 1996. Vetle was co founder and partner of Emediate Ad Serving Solutions 2001-2003, following the role as sales director 24/7 Media Norway and experience from financial magazines / print advertising

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