Management Team

Håkan Millroth, CEO

Carl Moberg, COO

Urban Lindegren, VP of Worldwide Sales

Johan Bevemyr, Chief Software Designer

Martin Björklund, Chief Architect

Michael Klemens, VP of North American Sales

Board of Directors

David Sonnek, Director

Bart Burstein, Director

 

Management Team

Håkan Millroth, CEO

Before co-founding Tail-f Systems, Mr. Millroth held an executive management position at Interpeak, an embedded software vendor that was acquired by Wind River in 2005. Previously, he was a co-founder and CTO of Bluetail, a software company that was acquired by Alteon Websystems in 2000. Mr. Millroth's career also includes several management roles at Ericsson and Nortel Networks. Mr. Millroth began his career as a Professor of Computer Science at Uppsala University, where he conducted experimental research in distributed systems.

Carl Moberg, COO

Before joining Tail-f Systems, Mr. Moberg held several management positions at ServiceFactory, a company that he co-founded in 1999. Prior to ServiceFactory, Mr. Moberg was one of the principal architects of Telia's Internet service platform. This platform was an industry first, supporting a wide variety of access types and application services in an integrated fashion to millions of subscribers.

Urban Lindegren, VP of Worldwide Sales

A co-founder of Tail-f Systems, Mr. Lindegren has extensive experience and demonstrable success in building high-growth sales organizations and worldwide sales channels for embedded software companies. Mr. Lindegren’s 20 years of experience includes executive management positions with Interpeak and ENEA, as well as account manager and engineering positions with Bergman & Beving and Ericsson.

Johan Bevemyr, Chief Software Engineer

Mr. Bevemyr has almost 30 years experience in software programming and he wrote and sold his first program at the age of twelve. Prior to co-founding Tail-f Systems he was a co-founder at Bluetail and he has worked for Ericsson, Alteon, and Nortel. Mr. Bevemyr has extensive experience of distributed systems and is Tail-f Systems' representative in the SA Forum. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Uppsala University.

Martin Björklund, Chief Architect

Mr. Björklund is a co-founder of Tail-f Systems and has more than a decade of network management systems experience. He was also a co-founder of Bluetail and before that he has worked for Ericsson, Alteon and Nortel. Mr. Björklund is also an active participant in IETF's NETCONF working group and he has a M.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Michael Klemens, VP of North American Sales

Prior to joining Tail-f Systems, Mr. Klemens held senior sales management positions with companies including Artisan Software Tools, Wind River Systems, and Interpeak. During his tenure as VP of Worldwide Sales, Interpeak was acquired by Wind River Systems. Mr. Klemens has a successful track record of building teams and growing sales in the embedded systems industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing degree from Maryland University.

Board of Directors

David Sonnek, Director

David Sonnek is responsible for Business Development / Technology at SEB Venture Capital since year 2000. Prior to SEB, Mr. Sonnek was the director of business planning at Ericsson Telecom and has held a number of executive positions in R&D, marketing and strategic planning within the Ericsson Group. Before joining Ericsson, he built a successful consultancy business in data communication and real-time programming. Mr. Sonnek has a research background in experimental atomic physics and is the author of more than 20 scientific papers in that field. He holds a PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Bart Burstein, Director

Bart Burstein is a consultant to several Silicon Valley, Canadian and European startup companies. Previously he held the position of VP of Business Development for Nortel's Intelligent Internet Business Unit, a role that resulted from the acquisition of Alteon Websystems by Nortel in the fall of 2000. Mr. Burstein was one of the original executives at Alteon, his fifth startup venture, where he led various sales and business development functions throughout the company's formative stages, growth, IPO and acquisition. During the course of his career, he has held positions in channel sales, international sales, marketing and engineering. Mr. Burstein received executive training at the Wharton School and has a graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.