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| Niklas
ZENNSTRÖM |
Chief
Executive Officer
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| Session
25/11/04 – 17:35 |
| Internet
Acte II et le futur de la téléphonie |
| Internet
Act II and the future of telephony |
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Niklas Zennström, a Swedish citizen
of 38 has a dual degree in business and
MSc Engineering Physics, computer science
from Uppsala University in Sweden. He spent
his final year at University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor.
He started his professional career at Tele2,
when there were only 23 employees. Now the
company is the leading consumer oriented
pan-European telecom operator present in
23 countries.
Niklas served in various business development
roles including launching and being responsible
for European Internet Service Provider business
get2net and as CEO of the everyday.com portal.
Niklas later co-founded and served as CEO
of KaZaA, the world’s most downloaded
Internet software to date with more than
350 million downloads.
After that Niklas founded and served as
CEO at Joltid, a software company developing
and marketing p2p solutions and p2p traffic
optimization technologies to companies.
Niklas also co-founded Altnet, the world’s
first secure p2p network promoting commercial
content to millions of consumers and integrating
the full value chain of promotion, distribution,
and payment of digital content, including
being the worlds largest issuer of DRM licenses.
Niklas’ newest venture is Skype, the
global Internet telephony company based
on peer-to-peer principles.
When Niklas is not creating new cutting
edge disruptive businesses, he enjoys sailing,
skiing, outdoor activities and travelling.
Niklas is happily married.
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