Neil Rimer, Chairman

Neil Rimer is a co-founder and General Partner of Index Ventures. In 1992, Neil started the venture capital activity of Index's predecessor firm, later co-founding Index Ventures and raising the firm's first fund in 1996. Neil's investment interests include components and enterprise data access as well as wireless and online services. He is currently a Director of Photoways Inc., Innovative Silicon Inc., Pulsic Ltd., Kimotion Technologies Inc., Moo Print Ltd and Last.fm Ltd. Neil sponsored the Index Ventures’ investments in Stepstone, Flutter.com, Mediasurface plc, Ofoto, Listen, Cellzome AG, Genmab, and GeneBio and served on the Board of Flutter.com from 2000 to 2001, Mediasurface plc from 1999 to 2002 and Cellzome AG from 2001 to 2005. He has also served on the Board of Directors of U.C. Sampdoria, a football club competing in the Italian Serie A. Before starting Index Ventures, Neil spent four years with Montgomery Securities in San Francisco. Neil has a B.A. in History and Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Neil Rimer has been a Director since March 2005 and Chairman of the Board since July 17, 2007.

Ingvild Myhre, Vice Chairman

Ingvild Myhre is CEO of Network Norway and was previously CEO of Telenor Mobil AS and a director of the Norwegian Red Cross. She is Chairperson of the board of Simula Research Lab, deputy chairperson of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, and serves on the board of Narvik Science Park, Telecomputing, Folketrygdfondet, Simrad Optronics.  Ingvild graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology with a M.Sc. in Physical Electronics. Ingvild has been a Director since May 2007 and Vice Chairman since July 17, 2007.

Eirik Chambe-Eng, Chief Troll and Director

Eirik Chambe-Eng co-founded Trolltech with Haavard Nord in 1994, after starting the development of Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform application development framework. Eirik has many years experience in software research, development, and management. He serves on the Board of Norwegian software companies ObjectPlanet AS and Cellvision AS, and the Board of the charitable Stiftelsen Trolltech Foundation. Between 2000 and 2003, he served on the Board of Systems in Motion AS. Eirik graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology with a M.Sc. in Computer Science. Eirik is based in our Oslo headquarters. Eirik has been a Director and/or CEO since 1994.

Juha Christensen, Director

Juha Christensen is currently CEO of Sonopia Corporation, a start-up focused on enabling the micro-segmentation in the mobile industry. Prior to this position at Sonopia, Juha served as president of Macromedia Mobile between 2003 and 2005. He was also one of the early employees at Psion Software and a founder of the Symbian venture, which grew out of that business. Previously, he launched Microsoft's mobile platforms in the cellular business while he served on the Board of Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture AB between 2000 and 2003. He currently serves on the Board of Teleca AB and Unwire A/S and is a partner in Oysterfields LLC. Juha also served on the Board of ExpandIT A/S between 2002 and 2005 and CTIA between 2000 and 2004. Juha has been a Director since June 2005.

Volker Hilsheimer, Director - employee representative

Volker Hilsheimer joined Trolltech in 2000 directly from his computer science studies at the University of Rostock, Germany. He has since then built up the customer support organization in his roles as software and support engineer, support manager and global support director. Volker is based in our Oslo office, and is responsible for the support engineer teams in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Volker was elected employee representative on the Board of Directors in June 2007.

Eva Lindqvist, Director

Eva Lindqvist is board member of Schibsted ASA. Her former positions include Senior Vice President of Telia Sonera Mobile Business, Ericsson Group between 1981 and 1999, Managing Partner and MD Stockholm Office of Sandberg Trygg in 1999. Eva was Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Telia Equity between 2000 and 2002, and President and Head of Business Operation International Carrier Telia between 2002 and 2005. Eva has an MBA from Melbourne University, Australia and a MSc from University of Linköping. Eva has been a Director since July 2006.

Toril Nag, Director

Toril Nag is Executive Vice President of Danske Bank's subsidiary Fokus Bank, in Norway. Between 2001 and 2006 she was CEO of Lyse Tele AS, a Norwegian broadband operator. Between 1996 and 1999 she was Regional Director of Telia and Managing Director of ElTele Rogaland between 1999 - 2001. She worked in Product Development for Tandberg ASA between 1990 and 1996, then as Manager Technical Support and finally as Sales Director Europe.  She has a degree from the University of Strathclyde (UK) in Computer Science/Communication. Toril has been a Director since May 2007.

Tod Nielsen, Director

Tod Nielsen is currently CEO of Borland Software Corporation. Prior to serving in this position, he was senior vice president of technology marketing at Oracle Corporation from June 2005 until October 2005. Between 2001 and 2005, he was executive vice president and chief marketing officer at BEA Systems, and prior to this, he was the CEO at software development company CrossGain. Tod also held senior management positions at Microsoft, where he held roles such as vice president, Platform Group and vice president, Developer Relations. He has a degree in Business Administration from Central Washington University. Tod has been a Director since June 2005.

Ole Christian Lappen, Deputy Member - employee representative

Ole Christian Lappen joined Trolltech in March 2005 as a Regional Sales Manager. He has more than 10 years of experience from software sales and recruiting to the IT industry. Lappen is based in our Oslo office and responsible for a sales team covering large parts of Europe. He was elected deputy employee representative on the Board of Directors in June 2007.

Haavard Nord, CEO and Deputy Member

Haavard Nord co-founded Trolltech with Eirik Chambe-Eng in 1994, after starting the development of Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform application development framework. Haavard is a veteran of the software development industry, with experience in software research, development and management. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology with a M.Sc. in Computer Science. Haavard is based in our Palo Alto office. Haavard has been a Director and/or CEO since 1994.