The Team

The core team combines programming excellence with long-term experience of delivering business success.

Kristofer Månsson, CEO.
Before co-founding Elucidon (Silobreaker’s parent), Kristofer spent 15 years in banking and financial services. He was a Vice-President at Salomon Brothers in London and Managing Director of AIG Financial Products in London. His entry into technology, other than that as user, was in 2000 when he took on the role of acting CEO for an early stage technology venture originated and owned by the Boston Consulting Group and OMX in Stockholm. He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Per Lindh, Chief Technology Officer.
Per holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden, specialising in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Part of his academic degree was completed at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia), where he spent a year as a Postgraduate Student with top of class results. Per held the position as Systems Architect for Framfab from 1999 until he left the company during 2001 to pursue commercial opportunities with his and Björn Löndahl’s information retrieval invention, which remains the core technology behind Silobreaker.

Björn Löndahl, Chief Product Officer.
Björn holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden, specialising in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Björn held the position of Senior Systems Architect for Framfab from 1999 until he left the company at the end of 2001 to pursue commercial opportunities with the technology that together with Per Lindh he co-invented, now defining the core of the Silobreaker technology.

Jimmy Mårdell, Chief Systems Architect.
Jimmy studied Computing Science at Umeå University in Sweden, specialising in Mathematics and Algorithm Theory. He is an acknowledged algorithm expert, with outstanding programming competition merits, including: Winner of International Google Code Jam in 2003, highest ranked coder at TopCoder in 2002, three-time Swedish university programming champion and gold medallist at the International Olympiad in Informatics 1997. He was lead programmer of 'FILA Decathlon' for Nintendo Game Boy Advance (published by THQ in 2002).

Joakim Mårlöv, Head of Stockholm Office.
Joakim has 20 years experience as a developer and architect of business intelligence and database decision support solutions for corporate clients, including H&M, The Absolut Company and PharmaciaUpjohn. Joakim is an expert on decision support systems, OLAP and massive-scale databases.

Mats Björe, Director.
Mats is the founder of Infosphere AB, an international intelligence consultant. Prior to Infosphere he served as Scandinavian Knowledge Manager for McKinsey & Company; Founder and Head of the Open Source Intelligence Section at the Swedish Headquarters Military Intelligence & Security Service; and a teacher of intelligence at Sweden’s Army Intelligence School and Artillery School. Among other assignments, he was a member of Factiva’s advisory board between 2001 and 2003.