Profile
Pekka Roine joined Prime Technology Ventures in 1999 as a founding General Partner, and converted to Senior Advisor in 2003.
Pekka has 30 years of operational, technology and management experience.
Pekka was the chairman of Solid in 1996-2002.
Solid, a Finnish company headquartered in Silicon Valley, provides a unique distributed data management and synchronization technology.
He was the chairman of VistaCom in 1995-2002, a Finnish company in video conferencing hardware and software.
He was the chairman of Buscom and Idesco, two RFID companies in Oulu, Finland, as well as a board member of AudioSoft, a breakthrough audio distribution company based in Switzerland and France, and Metorex International, a security and analyzer equipment company in Finland.
He also was a founder and director of the Health On the Net foundation, a global healthcare web initiative based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Previously, Pekka held senior executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation for 22 years.
As President Finland, he led the profitable growth of the Finnish subsidiary from 1 to 100 people in 1972-1981 and from 100 to 500 people and €180 million in sales in 1983-1992.
He then was the worldwide director for the Travel and Transportation Industry in 1992-1994.
Pekka, who is based in Switzerland, works broadly in both the Nordic and the international technology and business communities.
He holds B.Sc.
and M.Sc.
degrees in Physics from the University of Helsinki.
He is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
Former positions of Pekka Roine
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Prime Technology Ventures NV
 Prime Technology Ventures NV Investment ManagersFinance Prime Technology Ventures NV (Prime Ventures) is the venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Prime Technology Venture Partners BV founded in 1999 by Sake Bosch. Prime Technology Ventures BV is headquartered in Amseterdam, the Netherlands. | Director/Board Member | 2009-11-30 |
Prime Technology Ventures NV
Prime Technology Ventures NV Investment ManagersFinance Prime Technology Ventures NV (Prime Ventures) is the venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Prime Technology Venture Partners BV founded in 1999 by Sake Bosch. Prime Technology Ventures BV is headquartered in Amseterdam, the Netherlands. | Investment Committee Member | 2002-12-31 |
Eniram Oy
 Eniram Oy Aerospace & DefenseElectronic Technology Eniram Oy engages in the provision of insights for asset, operations, and commercial shipping management. It offers Insight Factory technology, which optimizes energy efficiency at the fleet, voyage, and vessel level. The company was founded by Henrik Oscar Dahl, Jussi Petteri Pyörre, Mikko Ahola, and Ville Leino in January 2005 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. | Director/Board Member | - |
Conor Venture Partners Oy
 Conor Venture Partners Oy Investment ManagersFinance Conor Venture Partners Oy (Conor) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Manu Mäkelä and Sami Ahvenniemi. The firm is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. | Private Equity Investor | - |
Upstream Engineering Oy
 Upstream Engineering Oy Electronic Production EquipmentElectronic Technology Upstream Engineering is a Finnish optics company specialized for LED projectors and advanced LED illumination. Company was founded in 2002 as an optics consulting company. The innovation and the development of the Photon Vacuum technology were started in 2004 with the help of venture capital financing. Upstream is located in Oulu, well know technology city in northern Finland, and has excellent contacts with local university and technical research center. With good network of subcontracting companies, Upstream can offer design and prototyping services for custom applications with competitive price and schedule. The PhotonVacuum technology is based on the innovative and unique optical design, which enables superior etendue preservation and collects all the light from a LED in the smallest physical size. The technology is the ultimate solution for LED based projectors like picoprojectors, embedded projectors, ultra-portable projectors and home theaters. In addition to the projector applications the Photon Vacuum technology provides significant advantages in many advanced LED lighting applications. | Chairman | - |
Training of Pekka Roine
| University of Helsinki | Graduate Degree |
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Upstream Engineering Oy
Upstream Engineering Oy Electronic Production EquipmentElectronic Technology Upstream Engineering is a Finnish optics company specialized for LED projectors and advanced LED illumination. Company was founded in 2002 as an optics consulting company. The innovation and the development of the Photon Vacuum technology were started in 2004 with the help of venture capital financing. Upstream is located in Oulu, well know technology city in northern Finland, and has excellent contacts with local university and technical research center. With good network of subcontracting companies, Upstream can offer design and prototyping services for custom applications with competitive price and schedule. The PhotonVacuum technology is based on the innovative and unique optical design, which enables superior etendue preservation and collects all the light from a LED in the smallest physical size. The technology is the ultimate solution for LED based projectors like picoprojectors, embedded projectors, ultra-portable projectors and home theaters. In addition to the projector applications the Photon Vacuum technology provides significant advantages in many advanced LED lighting applications. | Electronic Technology |
Prime Technology Ventures NV
Prime Technology Ventures NV Investment ManagersFinance Prime Technology Ventures NV (Prime Ventures) is the venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Prime Technology Venture Partners BV founded in 1999 by Sake Bosch. Prime Technology Ventures BV is headquartered in Amseterdam, the Netherlands. | Finance |
Conor Venture Partners Oy
Conor Venture Partners Oy Investment ManagersFinance Conor Venture Partners Oy (Conor) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Manu Mäkelä and Sami Ahvenniemi. The firm is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. | Finance |
Eniram Oy
Eniram Oy Aerospace & DefenseElectronic Technology Eniram Oy engages in the provision of insights for asset, operations, and commercial shipping management. It offers Insight Factory technology, which optimizes energy efficiency at the fleet, voyage, and vessel level. The company was founded by Henrik Oscar Dahl, Jussi Petteri Pyörre, Mikko Ahola, and Ville Leino in January 2005 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. | Electronic Technology |
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