Profile:
Michael Stadi worked in the financial and energy sectors before leading SMEs and advising start-up ventures. He has spent 13 years working in investment banking and financial markets in Copenhagen, Stockholm and London, before managing and establishing greenfield operations within the energy sector in Denmark. In 2007, Michael co-founded and listed the world’s first long only carbon fund: KlimaInvest A/S on the NASDAQ OMX Exchange.

In 2008, Michael joined solar company Gaia Solar as CEO. After securing growth capital, Michael was responsible for doubling turnover between 2008 and 2012 and was awarded “Growth Gazelle” by Børsen for four consecutive years. In 2012, Michael was nominated for the E&Y – Entrepreneur of the Year award. Prior to joining FOM Technologies, Michael was CEO for the Luxury and Apparel brand at Kopenhagen Fur and responsible for strategy and business development. Michael has served as a board member of several start-up companies.

Education:
Bachelor in Economic & Finance (HD-F) from Copenhagen Business School (DK).

E*MBA from SIMI – Scandinavian International Management Institute (DK).

Position since:  2017
Dependency:  Dependent
Shares held:  1,030,120

Martin Kiener started his career as a social scientist before quickly moving into the Danish tech sector, where he has worked for the last decade. In 2012, Martin was responsible for spinning out and establishing FOM Technologies as a commercial entity separate from the Danish Technical University. He has been the driving force behind FOM’s sales and product innovation ever since.

Over the last six years, Martin grew the business into commercial success story. Martin has established commercial relationships with some of the world’s largest corporations and most prestigious tech universities. Martin’s drive to turn FOM Technologies into a leading Slot-Die coating company for functional new materials means that he will continue to lead FOM’s growing sales team and oversee product innovation.

Education:
Master’s Degrees in International Development & Cultural Studies (DK).

Position since:  2012
Dependency:  Dependent
Shares held:  2,017,858

Marie has a background in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with specialization in materials science. Since then, she has taken on a master’s in industrial engineering and management. Here, she has found her field of interest in technological innovation, this especially in relation to startup companies. While conducting her master thesis, Marie will be a part of FOM Technologies to help with bill of material management and review of technical drawings as well as structuring documentation, orders and production logistics needs. 

Education:
 B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

Moises joined FOM technologies in January 2022 after working as postdoc in Spain and in Denmark. With a background in Scientific Research, Development and Innovation, Moises has applied experience within thin-film optoelectronic devices based on organic and inorganic semiconductors.

He is passionate about understanding, knowing more, and applying energy enabling materials. His research interest focuses on device engineering, interface layers and scalability of processes. He is reviewer of several scientific journals and has various papers on emerging photovoltaic materials. He enjoys collaborative work to solve problems in R&D projects and to design and develop technological systems.

His background expands beyond science into International Trade, essential to reach target markets and potential customers.

Moises has joined FOM technologies to expand the use of FOM’s machines to new innovative functional materials and technologies.

Education:
PhD in Engineering and Advanced Technologies, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Master degree in Logistics and International Trade, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
M.Sc. in Physico-Mathematical Sciences, National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), México
B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), México

Sriram is a biomedical engineer with experience in the interdisciplinary domains of electrochemistry, microfluidics, and medical device development. He has spent the last four years developing electrochemical assays for various biomedical applications, with a particular focus on sensor integration in microfluidics and the evaluation of custom-built analytical instruments. More recently, Sriram has been working on developing assays for therapeutic drug monitoring.

Sriram has joined FOM Technologies as an Industrial Postdoc to develop and demonstrate applications for pharmaceutical research, thus widening the user scope of slot-die coating in the pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing.

 

Education:
MSc. Biomedical methods and Technology, Malmö University (SE)
PhD Analytical chemistry and Microfluidics, Technical University of Denmark (DK)

Michael did his education and training in solid-state physics with a specific focus on X-ray and neutron scattering and imaging methods to gain fundamental insight into the nature of various materials. Here, with a particular focus on multiferroic materials and magnetic alloys. His Ph.D. work was focused on developing methods to perform in situ X-ray scattering of roll-to-roll coating organic solar cells to unfold the drying kinetics of the donor/acceptor. This has given him a great understanding of building and designing cutting-edge machinery on roll-to-roll while addressing scientific questions. After his Ph.D., he joined FOM technologies to continue work on developing new methods to tackle the LAB-to-FAB challenge within photovoltaics and solid-state batteries, which he believe is paramount for the green energy transition.

Education:
Ph.D. from the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
M.Sc. & B.Sc. in Physics and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Kent has more than 20 years’ experience as a mechanical engineer in R/D and Production.

He has worked as Project management in manufacturing molds for Automotive and consumer products and designed vending machines for coffee.

Kent has joined FOM Technologies to help lift the production department as a Production Specialist

Education:
Mechanical engineer (DK)

Work experience:

Andreas Nielsen is a lawyer and partner in Bech Bruun Advokatpartnerselskab with a focus on M&A transactions. Andreas has experience from a number of current and previous board positions.

Education:

• Cand. Jur. | University of Copenhagen (2004)
• LLM, Corporate & Business Law | New York University (2004)

Position since:  2021
Dependency:  Independent
Shares held: 9.525

Work experience:

Karina Rothoff Brix is ​the Country Manager of Denmark Firi; before that, she was ​CEO at the Center for Lifelong Learning – DTU Learn for Life. Before that, she was CEO of the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship at CBS for 9 years. In both places, the task has been establishing and growing centers within innovation, entrepreneurship, and executive education. Karina has experience from previous boards and advisory boards and has been part of the Innovation Fund’s expert panel since 2017. Karina has founded several companies and organizations, developed apps, and authored books. She is passionate about the use of new technologies in growth companies as well as the interaction between large organizations and new digitally driven companies, as well as for the importance of general learning in our society.

Education:

• Board training | Board Education DTU (2021)
• Master in Management Development (2015)
• Insurance Academy (2004)
• Master in Law and Business Administration (2002)

Position since:  2021
Dependency:  Independent

Work experience:

Birthe Tofting works as sales and marketing director at VOLA A/S, where since 2010, she has been responsible for building VOLA A/S as a global brand and has established an international dealer network and global subsidiaries. She is currently the director of nine international sales companies. Birthe Tofting’s core competencies are many years of experience with export work, PR, and branding, as well as a strong ESG profile. Since 2006, Birthe Tofting has worked on various boards focusing on global growth and business development.

Other management and board positions:

• Stauning Whiskey A/S
• E V Metalværk A/S

Education:

• Sustainability communication, Aros Business Academy
• Board education, Aarhus Universitet
• Mini MBA
• Executive Master in Corporate Communication, Aarhus University
• Cand. ling. merc., Aarhus University

Position since:  2024
Dependency:  Independent

Søren Ulstrup is the grand old man within the plastic industry in Denmark. Having managed and grown his family company Ulstrup Plast for decades Søren is today managing director at the Nasdaq listed company SP Group, where he is responsible for all injection molding in the group, throughout the world. Besides that he holds numerous positions, including being chairman of the Danish Plastic Federation, member of the Danish Industry (DI) steering commitee and board member of DA.

Education:
MSc ChE, Technical University of Denmark (DK).

Work experience:

Karsten Winther is President with responsibility for EMEA Sales at the US NASDAQ listed company Vertiv. Karsten has over 20 years of experience in direct and channel sales, including strong focus on vertical markets. He has led various transformations of largescale sales organisations which included activities such as redefinition of direct & indirect customers and associated commercial policies; pricing policies; competitive mapping & development tools, processes and methodologies.

Before joining Vertiv in May 2018, Karsten held global, regional and country sales roles in NEC and Epson, and most recently served as VP sales and marketing for Cobham Satcom, covering all global strategic, tactical and operational activities. At Cobham, he was also responsible for the complete customer life-cycle and product management portfolio as well as sales operations activities.

Education:

• Eagle | Executive Management and Leadership Course – ESADE Spain (2008)
• Business Administration and Management | CBS (1992)

Dr. Devin MacKenzie is the Washington Research Foundation professor of Clean Energy and an associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UW. Devin is a scientist, research leader and seed stage entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience in printable and flexible electronic materials and integrated systems. He is currently the CEO of Imprint Energy, a UC Berkeley spin-out developing flexible, high energy batteries based on large-area print manufacturing. Previously, as the CTO of Add-Vision, Inc., Dr. MacKenzie led R&D of materials and processing for roll-to-roll printed flexible OLED displays. Prior to Add-Vision, he initiated and led printed Si GHz RF device, laser processing and product engineering at Kovio, Inc., an MIT Media Lab spinout.

Dr. MacKenzie also co-founded the first ink jet printed electronics company, Plastic Logic, from the University of Cambridge while he was in the Dept. of Physics as a post doc and later a visiting scientist researching solution-processed photovoltaics, phase separation in optoelectronic polymer blends and surface-directed self assembly of device nanostructures. Prior to that he worked in InGaAsP defect analysis at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill.

Dr. MacKenzie has over 110 patents and publications and doctorate, master’s, and undergraduate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida and MIT. He has received numerous awards including being elected to the Cleantech 100 two years in a row as well as being recognized for leading one of the Top 50 Smartest Companies of 2015 by the MIT Technology Review.

Education:
Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida (US).

M.S. in Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida (US).

B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US).

Jason Li-Ying is Professor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the group leader of Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship (IDE) research group at Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. He has research and teaching interests in technology & innovation management, organizational learning, strategic management, and technology transfer.

His work has appeared in many leading scientific journals in a broach field of business and management. He serves as an editorial board member for editorial board of International Journal of Innovation Studies. He is currently a member of expert committee of Danish Ministry of Education and Research for ”Erhvervsøkonomiske fag” (economics and business disciplines).

Besides his excellence in research and education, Jason also has extensive experience in innovation strategy and business development for SMEs by acting as strategic advisors for a number of innovative companies. Jason is a board member of China Denmark Innovation House. He has chaired a number of large projects to help SMEs to develop business in terms of strategy, internationalization, and business model innovation.

Education:

PhD in Innovation Management at Hasselt University, Belgium

MSc. in International Management, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Master of Law in International Business Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Bachelor in Law, East China University of Politics and Law, (P. R. China)

Morten Madsen did his PhD within functional materials and nanotechnology at SDU, and has a general field of expertise within electronic and optoelectronic devices based on semiconducting thin-films. From 2010-2011 Morten worked with high performance transistors from III-V nanoscale membranes at the Javey research lab, UC Berkeley, California.

In 2011 he established the OPV group at SDU NanoSYD, where the research is centered around improving the performance of organic and hybrid solar cells. In 2014 he was appointed Associate Professor at SDU, and the work in the SDU OPV group has since then included a strong focus on interface layers and device stability. Since 2016, this includes a strong focus on device up-scaling through Roll-to-Roll printing technology at the SDU R2R facility.

Education:
Associate Professor from Mads Clausen Institute (DK).

PhD in Functional Materials & Nanotechnology, University of Southern Denmark (DK).

M.Sc.Eng. Physics & Technology, University of Southern Denmark (DK).