Søren has more than sixteen years working experience in the High-Tech, General Management, Strategy Consulting and Venture Capital/Private Equity industry, having served in multiple senior roles.
Søren began his career in 1989 within core R&D for space applications but soon joined Nokia where he worked for several years in France, Denmark and Sweden. He then joined Andersen Consulting and 3 years later the Management consultancy company A.T. Kearney - at both companies he worked with product & market strategy for telecoms and high-tech companies.
Søren has also had roles as interim Chief Operating Officer - COO, for a mobile semiconductor start-up and Director of Sales & Nordic General Manager for a Californian software (mobile internet focus) start-up company - in these roles he helped raise more than $ 40 Mill in equity for the companies. Most recently he has worked a 5 years in venture capital and private equity. Søren has worked in a $ 200 Million Nordic technologies venture fund and Partner and co-founder in a $ 100 Million industry Leveraged-Buy-Out fund. The past few years he has also been engaged in various entrepreneurial start-up in Asia and US.
Søren holds a Masters Degree from Aalborg University, Denmark, graduated with highest honors; in Microelectronics and Telecom combined with a years extend master thesis in microelectronics at ESIEE, France. He has complemented this with Executive Programs in strategy and finance from INSEAD - France.
