Founders
Scientific & Strategic Advisors
Magnus Ryde
Co-Founder
Magnus Ryde has more than 25 years experience in semiconductors and building high tech startups. Magnus previously held positions as VP, Field operations and Sales at KLA-Tencor and President North America at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). Magnus also was the CEO of FlexICs (a flexible screen spin-out from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California), Intematix (a provider of phosphor LEDs for solid state lighting), and Daystar Technologies (a CIGS thin film PV solar energy company in Silicon Valley). Magnus was also Advisor, and subsequently General Partner, at Quan Ventures for several years. Magnus has served on several boards in several high-tech companies with a focus on the semiconductor industry in Sweden, USA , Israel and Asia. Magnus holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Linköping University and Stanford University and an Executive MBA from Stanford University.
Gerard de Bourbon
Co-Founder
Mr de Bourbon is an executive with more than 28 plus years of significant international management, sales, marketing, consulting, strategy, business development, digital transformation, IoT, Nano IoT, Security, AI, blockchain, cognitive and neural networking, contextual learning, finance, operations, mergers and acquisitions background gained at several blue-chip, companies in the IT /Telecom industry, Finance, such as Verizon, CA, IBM, HP, Lucent, EHPT / Ericsson-Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications, and Chrysler Capital. Active in ESG sustainability venture incubation and co-creator with leading R&D labs in Europe. Mr. de Bourbon is a Math and Physics Graduate. He completed an MBA at the Stockholm School of Economics and also attended INSEAD / France, Darden University & Harvard University / USA, where he completed non-degreed corporate-sponsored executive programs. Mr de Bourbon has taken companies public and exited a successful venture pioneering M2M connectivity, IoT, and mobility functionality in the healthcare sector.
Prof, Dr, Dr, h c Lars Montelius
Chief Scientific Advisor
H-index 36: 180 publications, 4.897 citations, last 5 years ≈250 citations/year. Data from ISI Web of Knowledge 2019-06-17. More than 100 personally invited talks. 25 EPO patent applications.
Professor Emeritus, Lund University, 2020-present Director General for INL .Chief Executive Director, Öresund University & The Öresund Science.
Dean Physics Department (50%) 2003-07-01—2008-12-31
Professor, Lund University, 2000-2020
Since Sept 1, 2014, Montelius is the Director General for INL,The International Iberian nanotechnology Laboratory located in Braga,
Björn Segerblom
Chief Strategic Advisor
Björn Segerblom is engaged in selected board and project assignments with the main focus on Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he was engaged by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation for 12+ years, with the goal to transform Hong Kong into the regional hub for innovation and technology, as the Overseas Representative in Europe with the main focus upon Scandinavia, the UK and Belgium. He also opened up Germany, France, and Switzerland as part of this project.
He gained extensive international industrial management and marketing experience from senior positions while at Bofors, Nitro Nobel, and Nordstjernan of Sweden. He then spent 15 years as regional Asia-Pacific chief executive for the Swiss multinational group SGS Societe Generale de Surveillance, based in Geneva, Hong Kong, Japan, and the Philippines.
His wide international experience spans chemical, turnkey contracting, industrial explosives, and mechanical engineering industries as well as certification, inspection, and verification services for industries and governments, plus extensive exposure to incubation and start-up communities, including interaction with government and business agencies in Hong Kong and Europe.
Mr. Segerblom has also served many years on the Board, including as Chairman, of The Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in Sweden, and is now the Honorary Chairman and Hong Kong Representative. He lives in Hong Kong since 2001.
He earned a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Wei ZhuStrategic Advisor
Wei received his Master of Science degree in Material Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, and his PhD in Solid State Science from Pennsylvania State University, USA. Between 1990 and 1993, he was a visiting assistant professor at North Carolina State University, USA, before joining AT&T Bell Lab (later Lucent Technologies Bell Lab). He co-founded Broadex Technologies in 2003.
Prof. Lars Samuelsson Scientific Advisor
In 1977 Lars Samuelson received his PhD in physics at Lund University. Afterwards, he went for a post-doc at the IBM Research Center in San Jose, California between 1978-1979, researching display technology and band structure calculations.
In 1981 he became an associate professor of physics at Lund University, after which he 1986 became a professor of semiconductor physics at Chalmers University of Technology.
In 1988 he became a professor of semiconductor electronics at the Department of Physics at Lund University, and in the same year initiated the creation of Scandinavia's first Nanoscience research centre, Nanometer structure consortium (nmC).In 2000 he began to focus the Nanometer structure consortium's research on Nanowires.
In 2002, he became one of the first to show how to combine substances with different structural, electrical and optical properties in a nanowire.