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Willem De Geer is Managing Director for the company as well as a member of our Board of Directors. He manages our strategic accounts and is heavily involved in strategic planning. He was co-founder and CEO of emerging markets brokerage Brunswick Direct before starting Panopticon. Before his term at Brunswick Direct, De Geer was Vice President Corporate Development at KMOC, an oil company that is now part of Marathon Oil. Willem holds a degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Bruno Saint Cast is a Senior Vice President. He is part of the company's executive management team and helps develop and execute strategies for addressing market opportunities in telecommunications, energy, transportation, and manufacturing as well as for continued expansion in financial services. Saint-Cast began his career with IBM and spent the following 20 years successfully starting up and managing European operations for several US companies, including Sybase (now SAP), Brio Technology (now Oracle) and Salesforce.com. His most recent experience was with Tableau Software, where he served as VP European Sales and successfully introduced Tableau to the European market. Saint-Cast holds an MBA from the Rouen Business School. |
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Chris Elsmore is a Senior Vice President and leads our Partner Program. He helps resellers, systems integrators and OEM partners build profitable new revenue streams with Panopticon’s products. Before joining Panopticon, Chris was with SAP/Business Objects for eight years where he managed alliances throughout the world and helped the company quadruple alliance revenues in the Asia Pacific region and Japan over a two year period. His previous positions include five years with BOC Edwards leading the global launch of their electronics service business and two years as Alliance Director for i2 Technologies. Chris holds a Bachelor Honors degree in Chemical Engineering from Aston University and a Master of Science in Business Management at Bristol University. Chris also completed the Fundamentals of Management program at Columbia University in New York. |
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Markus Roithmeier is SVP EMEA and focuses on our major OEM clients, alliances and strategic partnerships in the EMEA region. Markus was previously Managing Director for QlikTech's operations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (D/A/CH) and Benelux; his knowledge of customer requirements and challenges relating to the QlikView Business Intelligence platform are directly applicable to his current role with Panopticon. Markus has also led MR Management Consulting, his own consulting firm and served as Vice President Global Alliances and Channels for Jedox AG, an open source Business Intelligence software provider. He holds a Degree in Business Administration from the University of Düsseldorf. |
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Richard Wilkinson is our SVP Americas and leads our sales and support efforts in the region. Richard has over 15 years experience selling technology products to financial services clients in support of application areas like interest rate, credit and equity derivatives, fixed income, risk management, trading, and back office operations. Before joining Panopticon he was Head of Sales at Theoretics, a cross-asset trading and risk solution. His previous positions included 10 years at Sungard Trading and Risk where he served as Sales Director and also managed Sungard's derivatives trading and risk teams. Richard holds a Bachelor Honors degree in Computer Science from Brunel University with a specialist focus on Human Computer Interaction. |
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Michael Le Lion is our SVP of International Sales and focuses on the financial services community, real time streaming applications and OEM partners for the Panopticon technology set. He has over 20 years of experience in corporate sales. Before joining Panopticon, Michael was Head of Sales and Partnerships for Bishopsgate Financial, a VAR and consulting firm with clients including RBS, Lloyds, Nomura, London Stock Exchange, Barclays Capital, and Deutsche Bank. Prior to Bishopsgate, Michael held senior sales positions at Platinum Technology, Fujitsu-ICL Retail, Verity, Comshare, and Datamonitor/Ovum where he actively targeted the financial services industry. |
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Jennifer Nye is VP of Sales and Strategic Alliances for Panopticon Software. She works closely with the partner channel to build profitable new revenue streams with Panopticon's visualization suite of products. Prior to joining Panopticon, Jennifer was with Fidelity Investments for 12 years where she directed the Relationship Management team within their clearing division. Prior to that, she was a retail broker at Kidder, Peabody for 5 years and held her Series 7, 63 and 23 licenses. Jennifer has a BS in Economics from St. Lawrence University's Honors Program. |
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Nadeem Chowdhry is a Senior Vice President for Panopticon Software and leads our sales effort in the UK. Before joining Panopticon, he was Sales Director of Financial Services for QlikTech, the makers of QlikView Business Intelligence software, where he worked for eight years developing the market for QlikView products within UK banking and insurance sectors. He was QlikTech’s highest producing salesperson in the world several times and was consistently the top producing salesperson for QlikTech in the worldwide financial services industry. Before his years with QlikTech, Nadeem was Regional Sales Manager for Clarify and Account Manager for Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Company. |
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Peter Simpson is our SVP Research & Development. He is responsible for all development, pre-sales, support and consulting activities. Peter held Content, Product Management and Implementation roles at Instant Information before joining Panopticon in 2007. Before that, he held several senior positions with HSBC Global Banking and Markets, including Global Distribution Manager for Global Research and E-commerce Strategist. Peter holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics with Space Science & Technology. |
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Ludvig Sandman is our Chief Architect. He is responsible to devising the basic architecture of our products. Ludvig helped found Panopticon Software along with Willem De Geer, Markus Skyttner and Sam Giertz. Before starting Panopticon, Ludvig was Chief Architect for Brunswick Direct, an emerging markets brokerage, where he was in charge of development of their Market Map application. Before Brunswick, Ludvig was an ASP, Java and C++ expert for Ementor Systems where he developed applications for telecommunications companies. Prior to that, he held positions at Rektron AB, Danderryds Hospital, Procorida, and the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate. Ludvig studied Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. |
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Hannes Reijner is Panopticon’s Chief Visualization Researcher. He is responsible for our interactive visualizations and visual analysis capabilities. Hannes has designed most of our visualizations, among them Panopticon’s acclaimed Horizon Graph. He also designs data analysis features, interactive legends and filters, and color schemes and is responsible for ensuring Panopticon that contributes its expertise to the international information visualization research community. Prior to joining Panopticon in 2004, Hannes was a teacher in mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he also performed studies at the Master of Science program in Engineering Physics. |
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Theodor Stenevang Klemming is our VP Corporate Development. He manages all activities related to business process improvements and internal business intelligence. Before joining Panopticon, he ran an IT consultancy services business. While attending the Master of Science program at the Stockholm School of Economics, Theo majored in Information Management. He has also completed studies in political science and languages. |
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Emmeli Höglund is our Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Panopticon she worked as a finance controller at Intelliplan. She also served as head of accounting at VKG Fastighetsvärme and held different accounting positions at VKG Group. Emmeli has also worked with administration at Tragard & Falkenborn law firm. Emmeli studied business administration at Blekinge Institute of Technology. |
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Hugh Heinsohn is our VP Marketing. Before joining Panopticon, he was VP Marketing & Business Development and President of US operations for Digital Vision, an Emmy Award-winning developer of image processing software used to make feature films, television programs and commercials. Before that, he served as president of Xytech Systems Corporation, a developer of enterprise software used to manage the business operations for clients including Boeing, Ford, Time-Warner, Georgia-Pacific, JC Penney, and Sony. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University. |