Crunchfish strengthens Board of Directors by adding two new board members

Crunchfish, a world leader in touchless interaction is happy to welcome Mikael Kretz and Malte Zaunders as newly appointed directors to the board.

“We are very pleased to welcome Mikael and Malte to our board of directors,” said Joachim Samuelsson, chairman of the Board. “Mikael’s high energy and ability to build a high performance team will be very important to us. Malte’s financial experience and proven business leadership will definitely serve the company very well.”

Mikael Kretz has more than 15 years experience as a serial entrepreneur within IT. He started the IT consultant company Create in 2000 and is also the co-founder of seven other companies. Mikael was nominated to Entrepreneur of the Year in Sweden by Ernst & Young 2009. In 2012 he co-founded his current engagement, the specialist IT consultancy company group, Qgroup.

Malte Zaunders has more than 15 years international experience from investment banking and private equity. In 2008, he founded Sweden based Kattegatt Partners, investing in and developing small-cap growth opportunities. Core skills include deal structuring, capital raising, negotiation as well as creating and driving strategic and operational growth initiatives.

The board of directors also include Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the board and Board members Örjan Johansson.

Joachim Samuelsson has more than 25 years of experience within IT and Telecom. He is an successful serial entrepreneur with the experience of building five successful ventures. He has dedicated to social entrepreneurship and spent several years developing youth entrepreneurship in Southern Sweden and he has recently taken the Irish Man Up campaign to Sweden as a call to action to men to stand up against women abuse. Joachim has been awarded for his entreprenurship several times and was in 2012 voted the most entrepreneurial person in Southern Sweden. He represents also the City of Helsingborg as one of the city’s Ambassadors.

Örjan Johansson has more then 30 years experience in within IT and Telecom and currently is a Senior Consultant that serves several boards. He was heading the project that took an Ericsson short range technology to the market and resulted in Bluetooth. Further Örjan has started and sold several companies both in Sweden and in the US Bay area. Before the entrepeneurships and Bluetooth Örjan was engaged in industry and building automation and headed a US based project that 1993 resulted in the product Flex I/O. It is still Rockwell Automation´s and probably the worlds best selling distributed control system and has to date been sold in over 25 million units.

We would also very much like to thank Håkan Paulsson, Mikeal Kretz partner in Qgroup for the two years he served on the board and Yasemin Arhan, CEO of Anagran Events for her one and a half year tenure. On the board serves also Stephan Carlquist and Jörgen Neckmar as deputies.

Contact: Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board, joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com, mobile: +46 708 46 47 88