David Almström

Summary

I'm a dedicated successful product & bizdev exec in the mobile & software industry with ample strategic insight and capabilities; systems, handsets, services - you name it. In Asia, and particular China. After 15 interesting years in China, I moved back to Sweden to leverage my combined knowledge of the whole Asian mobile industry value chain, from IP backbones to mobile phones and apps to drive strategic deployment of product strategies. I'm open to explore opportunities where I add value for the Nordic & DACH region based on my long experience - either as line manager, strategic advisory or collaborator/consultant Several years, I was named one of the "Top 100 Mobile Influencers" in China by magazine Shoujiquan; mainly as a result of >10 years of driving new ideas, know-how and new businesses intersecting the extreme mobile growth and use of the Internet. In 1997, I moved to China and turned the datacom business for Ericsson into a multi-ten million dollar biz from scratch with major wins as China Mobile's backbone and HK Telecom Core Router network. Part of datacom success was to embrace the-to-be mobile internet and I became VP business strategy, focused on the future of the mobile industry, content and services. I also made an impact as a strategic consultant to major MNC's (inc China Mobile) and also smaller startups during 2002, as well as co-founding a Swedish startup in mobile services. In 2003, I joined Trolltech to develop their new Asian biz and signed up nearly all major Asia mobilephone and CE mftrs. June 2008, Trolltech became Qt SW team in Nokia (now, the QtCompany). Lately, I set up a strategy/market entry shop in HK, BJ and Sweden, Tiandi Mobile, where I'm a non-executive Director. In parallel, I have been heading up Telenor Digital's Product Management practice globally as part of Global Innovation and Products Governance during 2017 and 2018 as well as being a Strategic Product Manager for Spotify managing product relationships with Samsung and Google and then joining Voi, heading up Voi's Product team, driving a product strategy to ensure continued leadership in Europe. Recently, I was the CCO of Scoutbee, redifining supply chain and procurement software based in Berlin and now, I lead Product at Northvolt's Software Engineering team in Stockholm. Summing it up: Wireless, Asia, Product, Mobile, Mobile Services & apps, business development, sales management, start-up, Strategy, Swedish Market, Germany