Management Team

Education: Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Linköping Technical University, Sweden.

Joined Mentice: 2008

Professional background: CEO/President for Mentice since 2008. Over 25 years of experience from international management, sales and marketing of high tech products for various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, industrial products, med tech/healthcare. Prior to Mentice, Göran held several board and executive management positions for Swedish and international corporations such as PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation), Auto-trol Technology, Opticore/Autodesk and Programator/Cap Gemini. 

Holdings: 710,670 shares and 357,480 warrants held directly and indirectly through company.

Education: Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Economics – Specialization Accounting, University of Gothenburg

Joined Mentice: 2021

Professional background: Gunilla joined as CFO and has been part of the management team since. Prior to joining Mentice, Gunilla held several positions of CFO in IMI Hydronics and Papyrus Optigroup as the latest.

Holdings: 3,000 shares.

Education: MSc Mechanical Engineering (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Executive MBA Hult Business School (London, UK)

Joined Mentice: 2005

Professional background: Matar has over 20 years of experience within the medical device industry, 10 of which in the area of interventional cardiology. Before joining Mentice, Matar held various business development, senior sales and marketing positions in Europe (Berlin) and throughout Asia Pacific (including Penang, Malaysia, Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, PR China). He was responsible for Mentice’s Asia Pacific business from 2005 to 2007, based in Singapore, before relocating to Europe in early 2008.

Holdings: 147,833 shares and 43,330 warrants.

Education:  Mechanical Engineering degree, Diploma in Higher Marketing and Basic Economics from Gothenburg University Sweden.

Joined Mentice: 2014

Professional background: 20+ years in international IT high-tech sales, marketing and management with companies like, Financial Technologies, Nasdaq OMX, Xdin, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems.

Holdings: 43,330 warrants

Education: NVQ 3/ BTEC 3 in Business Administration from DDI Business School, Chester, UK.

Joined Mentice: 2006-2013, 2015-current

Professional background: Heading the Strategic Alliances division since 2017. Previous background focused in the areas of Sales, IT and Teaching.

Holdings: 2,000 shares and 34,483 warrants

Education: Master of Human Resources from Gothenburg University, Sweden.

Joined Mentice: 2019

Professional background: 20 years of experience from management in Human Resources within different segments and countries.

Holdings: 464 shares and 2000 warrants.

Education: Master in Architecture at Chalmers Institute of Technology, (Undergraduate courses in Computer Science and Mathematics at Chalmers and Lund Institute of Technology)

Joined Mentice: 1999, 2021

Professional background: Jan re-joined Mentice as VP Strategic Alliances & Business Development and is part of the management team. He has worked in the field of Virtual Reality since 1994 (Prosolvia Clarus). Co-founder of Mentice 1999. Started Mentice operations in the US 2004 and was stationed there until 2016. Last four years working mainly with surgical robotics simulation at Surgical Science.

Holdings: –

Education: Thanos received his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and holds a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida.

Joined Mentice: 2019

Professional Background: Thanos joined Mentice early January and  brings exceptional healthcare industry experience with over 20 years background from the medical arena with senior positions both from GE Imaging, Siemens Healthcare and most recently from Sectra.  

Holdings: 20,000 warrants.

Education: M.Sc Engineering Physics at Chalmers University of Technology

Joined Mentice: 2008

Professional background: Edward has been with Mentice since 2008 and has been part of the management team since 2016. Since 2019, Edward has been responsible for product management globally. Prior to Mentice, Edward worked as an engineer, consultant and programmer in the pharmaceutical industry, and has also worked at the Swedish Defense Agency's research institute.

Holdings: 20,000 shares and 43,330 warrants.

Education: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Licentiate Degree in Applied Mathematics from Chalmers University of Technology.

Joined Mentice: 2015

Professional background: More than 15 years of experience in many fields of technology development and management , ranging from software (including video compression, image processing, biometric matching algorithms) to hardware (silicon development and manufacturing, PCB design, electronic packaging and testing, mobile device integrations). Henrik worked at Summus, Inc. (Raleigh, NC) in the US from 1998 to 2001, and manager of the Swedish Summus development branch from 2001 to 2004. He held various positions at Fingerprint Cards, (Gothenburg, Sweden) from 2004 to 2014, including Vice President Customer Projects, with responsibility for building and managing the company’s engineering resources in the US, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China, along with the customer project manager team in Sweden.

Education: M.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Joined Mentice: 2021

Professional background: Pontus has over 20 years of experience within the simulation and Virtual Reality industry and a strong track record of driving new technologies to market. Before joining Mentice, Pontus has held several senior sales and marking positions in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan, at companies such as Opticore AB, Autodesk Inc., and EON Reality.

Holdings: 0 shares and 0 warrants.