Jan Erik Solem
Chairman at Overture Maps Foundation
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chairman
2022 - Current
Engineering Director, Maps
2020
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.
CEO and co-founder
2013 - 2020
Mapillary is the platform that makes street-level images and map data available to scale and automate mapping. Acquired by Facebook.
Associate Professor
2008 - 2016
Associate Professor at the Mathematical Imaging Group at the Department of Mathematics, Lund Institute of Technology / Lund University doing research in applied mathematics and computer vision.
Computer Vision Researcher
2013 - 2013
Worked as an independent researcher on future features and research in the computer vision space. Evaluation and screening of technology and companies.
Engineering Manager
2010 - 2012
Lead a computer vision R&D team, part of the Media Science Group.
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
Founder & CTO
2006 - 2010
Founder and CTO of Polar Rose AB, (formerly Ground Truth Vision AB), a company working with innovative image search using face recognition and computer vision. Acquired by Apple.
PhD student
2002 - 2006
Founder & CEO
2005 - 2006