Walter Kotlar

As the chairman, I'm responsible for leading an organisation of approximately 150 volunteer workers. Mensa Sweden has over 5,000 members, all of which with IQs in the top 2%. Mensa aims to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity. Mensa’s members use the Society to share their knowledge, their enthusiasms and their passions with like-minded people.

Kitron is a EMS supplier (Electronics Manufacturing Services), and my role was to handle our largest customers - e.g. ABB, Volvo, and Bombardier. Taking care of strategic alignment and contract negotiations, I was also responsible for coordinating sales activities between our various manufacturing sites around the globe.

Spansion is a world leading supplier of NOR-flash memories. My primary function was to do demand creation for these products. Along with that I was also coordinating Technology Alignment and Product Alignment with key customers in my region. Focus customers were Ericsson, Sony-Ericsson, Nokia, and other wireless design houses in the Nordic region.

Repretech is a Sales Rep Company which represents Spansion and Cypress Semiconductor on the Nordic and Baltic market. I was responsible for sales promotion and providing technical support for these product line. I was interfacing both towards big OEMs as well as towards distributors, and also to CEMs e.g.Flextronics, Solectron and Sanmina.

Business Development Manager for Components Sales and Technology Licensing. Responsible for sales and marketing of C-Technologies’ Image processing Software, MCUs, CISs, Optics and Bluetooth technology. Focus customer was Ericsson Mobile.

Nordic sales manager for Samsungs System LSI division, i.e. ASICs, MCUs, CPUs, LDIs, etc. Responsible for direct sales as well as sales management of the regional distributors and agents. Showed tremendous growth rate, and expanded business significantly.

Key account manager, managing several large accounts in the Nordic region e.g. Intel, DSC, Alcatel, Bosch, Axis, C-Technologies. Furthermore I also assisted the global account manager for Ericsson with several of the local Ericsson accounts. Constantly over-achieving my sales objectives.

Hardware design engineer, development of digital ASIC, design for test, documentation, verification, specification, project management.

Management

Microelectronics