JC

Juha Christensen

Chairman at Bang & Olufsen

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder & Chairman

    2008 - Current

    Star is a global company of builders.   Whether you are a start-up, mid-sized company or large enterprise, we help you innovate, transform, grow and prosper. We understand that in your business only the end result counts. This endgame is the north star that guides us when our global teams of innovation experts, strategists, designers, engineers and marketers work alongside you from start to finish.

  • Chairman

    2020

  • Vice Chairman

    2016 - 2020

    The craftsmen at Bang & Olufsen have since 1925 been building a highly distinctive, timeless and exclusive range of music systems, loudspeakers and televisions that combine technological excellence with emotional appeal.

  • Vice Chairman

    2016

    Netcompany delivers business critical IT solutions and consultancy that help customers achieve significant business benefits in a digitized world. The company helps clients manage and operate IT solutions both on location and in the cloud.

  • Investor & Advisory Board Member

    2018

    Blazar Capital builds global online leaders in various consumer industries disrupting monopolized markets by offering a strong value-proposition, a world class founding team and a global scale. New companies incubated and launched so far include Nordgreen, MessyWeekend, Jamie Looks, Project Nord and The Loyalty.

  • Co-Founder, Founders Collective

    2017

    byFounders is a “for founders by founders” venture fund built on the foundation and backing of a strong Founders Collective, comprising a significant group of some of the most successful Danish & Nordic entrepreneurs investing in and supporting a new generation of globally ambitious Nordic and Baltic entrepreneurs.

  • Co-Founder & Chairman

    2008 - 2024

    Acquired by Stellantis in 2024, formerly a jointly owned by Valeo and Star, CloudMade works closely with the world's large automotive brands to change the way cars are built, marketed, bought, shared and driven. The heart of CloudMade's array of solutions is a global cloud based Machine Learning infrastructure, which over time creates an ever richer profile of each individual driver, enabling our Adaptive UI to always serve the driver with the most time-and-context relevant experiences.

  • Chairman

    2008 - 2017

    Brandworkz' brand management software helps some of the best known businesses in the world manage their brands. Customers include Eurostar, Boots, Sony Ericsson, ArcelorMittal, US Army and Red Bull. Brandworkz' solution powers Brand Workflow & Approval, Reporting & Analysis, Digital Asset Management, Guidelines & Positioning, Best Practice Sharing and Web-to-Print.

  • Board Member

    2012 - 2016

    Acquired by Xperia in November 2016. Pelican developed a breakthrough in computational imaging and array cameras securing over 100 patents. Pelican’s technology directly addressed the challenges posed by conventional camera design and small pixels by producing a much thinner in-phone camera capable of depth sensing as well as producing better quality images.

  • Board Member

    2003 - 2012

    Acquired by Harman for $800 million in January 2015 (Harman was acquired by Samsung for $8b in 2016). Longest serving board member, M&A and compensation committee. The company was, with its 6,000 employees in 11 countries, the mobile industry's largest Systems Integrator. Over 40% of the world's handsets were 'touched by Teleca', the largest software integration partner to Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and a major supplier of services to Samsung, LG and a number of other handset makers.

  • Chairman

    2008 - 2010

    Acquired by Red Bend in September 2010 for stock, which in turn was acquired for $200 million by Harman in 2015. Chairman of VirtualLogix, the market share leader in mobile virtualization. VirtualLogix had investments from Index, DFJ, Atlas, Progression Partners, Texas Instruments, Intel, Cisco and Motorola. VirtualLogix enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware and provides a range of performance, fault tolerance and security options to address specific market requirements.

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