Board of Directors

Sverre Stange, the Chairman of CAMO Software is the driving force behind CAMO's renewed efforts in retaining the market leadership for multivariate data analysis products and solutions. is also a private investor and business leader from Norway. He holds an MBA in Finance from the US, and has worked in the international banking operations of Scandinavian Bank Ltd., in both London and Hong Kong. Stange has been a senior partner in the Norwegian corporate houses- Eden Finans AS and Oslo Finans AS. Since 1993, Sverre Stange has operated as a private equity investor and Chairman / board member of several small and medium sized companies. He is currently the Chairman of a Norwegian based private equity fund.

Halvor T. Svartdal has been a private investor for the last eight years and a professional member of boards of directors since 1985. He is the co-founder of many companies. Prior to starting his own investment business, he was the Managing Director of Navimar Holding AS, a privately held investment company for 9 years. Mr. Svartdal holds a Masters of Business and Economics (Siviløkonom) degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (Norges Handelshøyskole) in Bergen, Norway. Mr. Svartdal resides in Oslo, Norway.

Nicolai Løchen has been a partner in Scandinavian Corporate Group and Rekap AS for the past 10 years, advising owners, boards of directors and senior management in small and medium sized companies. Løchen has served as a professional member on the board of directors for several companies since 1988, also investing directly in several of these businesses. He served for 7 years as Asst. General Manager in BNP Paribas and practised for 4 years as a professional business lawyer. Løchen has also held several senior management positions within the textile business. Mr. Løchen holds a law degree from the University of Oslo and resides in Stabekk outside Oslo, Norway.

Erik Langaker has 20 years of experience in technology based venture capital. Since the late 80's Mr Langaker has founded/co-founded more than 10 (technology) companies, all of which are still operating independently or sold to larger corporations. Current relevant positions; Chairman of Stormgeo AS (www.stormgeo.com), Director of Geoknowledge (www.geoknowledge.com) and ResOptima AS (www.resoptima.com). Mr Langaker was a seed investor in Hitec Vision (1992-2007), the technology Group specializing in the offshore and energy technology sector.

Silvija Seres is Director of Business Management in Microsoft and a non-executive director on the board of Statkraft, Norsk Tipping, Aschehoug, and several other companies. She has previously worked in the management of Fast Search & Transfer, leading their product marketing, business consulting and IP teams while the company grew from a startup to 800 employees, resulting in an acquisition by Microsoft. Her academic career includes Oxford University, as well as China, Saudi-Arabia and the US. She has a PhD in mathematics from Oxford University, an MSc in information technology from University of Oslo and an MBA from INSEAD.

As a former Vice President of Research & Development in TANDBERG (now Cisco), Mr. Lia has more than 17 years of experience managing, creating and building the TANDBERG Video Conferencing product portfolio, as well as working with product and technology strategy, product positioning and acquisitions. As the CEO and Co-founder of Videxio, he is building the world’s first fully automated video & telepresence video service provider that enables customers and organizations of all sizes to quickly and easily get access to a high quality video conference experience. Mr. Lia holds a Masters degree in Computer and Automation Engineering and Computer Systems Engineering. He has published several international patents within the video conferencing industry.