DEVELCO PRODUCTS - Key Persons


Dorthe Gaardbo-Pedersen

Job Titles:
  • Director, Head of Strategic Marketing
Background Dorthe has more than 10 years of marketing and sales experience from the technology sector. She speaks multiple languages and has been working with project management, fundraising, public relations, and organizing events, shows, and conferences. She also has huge experience in project management together with Customer Relationship Management systems.

Freddy Engel

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Co - Founder and Lead Investor
Background Freddy has 38 years of business experience from Ford Motor, Nissan Motor, IDC, SAP and SAP related businesses. Hereof 30 years within technology at top executive level in Europe, US, Middle East and Asia. He is a serial entrepreneur with several successful exits from various countries.

Jan Metzdorff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Background Jan Metzdorff has more than 30 years experience from international sales and management roles in technology companies like GN Store Nord, Minolta, Philips Electronics, and Sonova. He enjoys global experience from leadership positions in USA, Canada, Japan and various European countries, including the Management Board of Sonova AG, Switzerland.

Karsten Ries - CEO, Shareholder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Shareholder
Background Karsten has 18 years of development, project management and executive management experience from Lumetech, Velux, Cooper Bussmann, PowerLynx, Vestas and Mekoprint. He co-founded PowerLynx and made a successful exit.

Lasse Pedersen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Customer Projects

Mads Hørmann Løcke

Job Titles:
  • Director, Head of Supply Chain
Background Mads has more than 10 years of experience working with Supply Chain and Procurement. Amongst others, he has worked at Kamstrup and Vestas.

Mads Høy Mortensen

Job Titles:
  • VP, Head of Global Sales
Background Mads holds solid international business experience from the wind energy sector and the automotive industry. Do you want to know more about our IoT platform or get started with your own solution? Get in touch.

Martin Langballe

Job Titles:
  • International Business Development Manager

Michael Hvelplund Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Background Michael Hvelplund Schneider has long international executive leadership experience within IT, software development, consulting and telecommunication. He has worked in Denmark, Sweden, the Ukraine and Switzerland. Michael's experience includes building up and organizing cross-border IT/software organizations, developing and defining strategic road maps in alignment with corporate visions and leadership experience of organizations in the range of 50 - 1.000 employees.

Peter Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Background Peter Jensen is an experienced software executive with extensive global experience. After holding sales and marketing positions within Oracle, Symantec, and VMware in Europe and the US, Peter has been focusing on building and growing startups in Silicon Valley as CEO and VP of Sales. Examples include Thinstall (acquired by VMware), StopTheHacker (acquired by Cloudflare), ParStream (acquired by CISCO), SPanugo (acquired by IBM), and others.

Peter Kirketerp Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Director, Head of Product Development
Background Peter has 18 years of software development experience from Gram & Juhl, Grundfos, TietoEnator Software Technologies before joining Develco and Develco Products. He has managed a multitude of projects from idea phase to pilot and roll-out. Peter also has huge experience in customer service.

Poul Eriksen - CTO, Founder, Shareholder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • CTO
  • Shareholder
Background Poul has 24 years of development, project management and international sales experience from Lanng & Stelman (Scantest), FACI A/S, Motorola, Freescale, and Develco A/S.

Simon Riem

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales, DACH

Squid Smart App

Job Titles:
  • Developers

Thomas Augustinus

Job Titles:
  • Director, Head of Development Projects
Background Thomas has a 23 years diverse background in product and production engineering from international environments in Carrier Fire & Security, BITZER Electronics, Schneider Electric and several start-ups. His leadership focus has been on setting up the framework to enable high-performance teams. Portfolio and project management, quality and delivery mindset, and clear roles and responsibilities are keywords.