Johan Smidebrant

Experience

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  Vanadis El

  Jun 1988 - May 1992

  Industrial Electrician

  Working as an industry electrician. Last 6 months I worked as an offering engineer in the office.

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  Conmel Data AB

  Sept 1996 - Apr 2000

  Account Manager

  Reseller Contact / Project leader / Account Manager.System sales towards Logistic companies with UNIX, Storage, Communication and education solutions. Reseller contact and product manager for Citrix solutions (NTRIGUE, Swedish distributor).Technical advisor for hardware/software solutions.SCO-Unix / AIX / Tarantella from SCO

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  Nanco Produkt AB

  Apr 2000 - Feb 2002

  Account Manager

  Account Manager Astra ZenecaAccount Manager for Volvo SubcontractorsResponsible for University sales.Responsible for Storage solutions from EMC.HW solutions from HP,SGI.SW programs, Maya and Alias

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  Frontbilar

  Feb 2002 - Oct 2004

  Sales

  * Car salesman selling the Citroën & Hyundai brand, responsible for marketing activities.Wonderful experience with "real selling" both to company's and private persons often with finance or leasing solutions. Selling approx. 15-25 cars a month.

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  Barco

  Nov 2004 - Dec 2006

  Sales Engineer

  Started the Barco Nordic office together with 4 colleauges.Translated customer needs into competitive solutions. Focused on the Nordic AreaSucessfully handled partners across the Nordics, helping them with technical challenges and selling our solutions. Grow the nordic Business from 60MSEK to 285MSEK together with a strong team.

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  Viju Sverige AB (now known as Kinly)

  Jan 2007 - Oct 2011

  Founder/ Co-Owner/ Business Development Manager

  A partner and reseller of Barco wanted me and my Barco colleauges in Gothenburg to start their Swedish branch office. Partowner of Viju Sverige AB.BDM for Control room and IT-monitoring applications.Board of membersIT-Infrastructure project at Teracom, Dong Energy, OKG...

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  ) eyevis Nordic AB

  Oct 2011 - Sept 2013

  Owner/Managing Director/Business development manager

  Developed brand strategy and market within the Nordic Area.Distribution of eyevis GmBH solutions.0 to 1,5M euros in turnover in 1 year. )eyevis GmBH wanted me to start their Nordic office and me and my colleauge developed and created their Nordic market before selling the company after 2 successful years . )eyevis is now owned by Laynard, a Samsung Company.

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  Cactus Utilities AB

  Oct 2013 - Aug 2016

  Systems Sales Director and Business Developer IT and Control Rooms

  Complete mixed IT system solutions within control rooms; hardware, furniture, ergonomic studies, lightning, sound, cctv, scada systems, traffic management systems, UX-overview designs, IT-infrastructure. Bringing understanding of the process to the user and usable KPI´s to managment.Succesfully sold and delivered systems to customers like SLL, Lokalbanen A/S, Dong energy, Telenor...Started from scratch and created a businessarea worth yearly 20MSek.

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  OP5

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2020

  Succesfully developed the market in Norway and Denmark focusing on partnerships and strong alliances. Pinpointing resellers and potential business partners that matches our vision and preferred customers. Change managment at the Gothenburg office together with my former CEO. * Delivered 10 new customers on new license model.* Biggest new customer delevoped from small license to an annual license of 100kSEK to 2,5M SEK Sales within the nordic area, Norway, Denmark and West of Sweden together with the southwest team and our great product op5 Monitor. Focusing on new customers and partners, bringing in deals to grow market share. Successfully created new business in the region delivering the 2017 results to a new top level in the companys history. Strong teamwork and focus on the challenge 85MSek.

  • Territory Manager Norway and Denmark

    Dec 2017 - Jan 2020

  • Senior Account Manager

    Sept 2016 - Dec 2017
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  Avocor

  Jan 2020 - Apr 2021

  Regional Sales Manager, Nordics
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  HansaWorld

  Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

  Channel Manager Nordics
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  Huddly

  Dec 2021 - Oct 2024

  Regional Sales Director Nordics & Baltics
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  VView

  Oct 2024 - now

  President, Business Development, Europe & Americas

  Mediaplatform used for Control Rooms, Digital Signage, Operator Workspace and Collaboration.