Leadership
Meet the inRiver team: A mix of marketers, engineers, sales, finance, and people specialists who lead our teams.
Leadership Team
Per-Olof Schroeder
Chief Executive Officer
Per-Olof Schroeder leads inRiver as CEO. Prior to that he was CEO of StormGeo, a global leader in weather intelligence and decision support with a particular focus on the maritime industries.
A 15-year Microsoft veteran, Per-Olof formerly led the Productivity & Business Processes Business Group in Microsoft Western Europe, managing marketing and business operations across twelve national subsidiaries. A key responsibility was to drive the success of SaaS cloud computing services in Western Europe, delivering revenue and market share objectives for public-private cloud solutions. Prior to Microsoft, he held several executive roles with IBM Global Services EMEA, including Managing Principal & Director with IBM UK. Before joining IBM, Per-Olof spent six years at strategy and technology consultants Arthur D. Little, working out of the firm’s offices in London, Brussels, and Riyadh.
Per-Olof is a graduate of Texas A&M University (Petroleum Engineering); the London Business School (MBA); and the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University (Master of Arts), where he is also a member of the GMAP Advisory Council.
Eric Waller
Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Product
Eric Waller is inRiver’s CTO and head of product development, bringing three decades of experience in software engineering, software architecture, and information technology strategy for business applications and data center operations to this leadership role. Eric was previously at Pansophic Learning, where he drove technology strategy and operations worldwide for both online and traditional schools that spanned early learning through higher education. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Waller has held a number of technology leadership positions, including CTO and head of product and software development at K12, Fannie Mae, and OneSoft.
Helena Gynnerstedt
Vice President of People
As Vice President of People, Helena Gynnerstedt and her HR team are dedicated to ensure that inRiver is the best possible place to work by providing an environment where every individual in the team can thrive and contribute to the strength of our company.
Helena brings 25+ years of experience from leading positions within HR and communications. She has worked at smaller start-up companies as well as with the largest international IT-players. Before joining inRiver, she was the HR Leader at IBM Client Innovation Center in Sweden.
Helena holds a B.A. in Business and Communication from Lund’s University.
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Thomas Zanzinger
Chief Sales Officer
Thomas leads inRiver’s global sales organization. He brings more than 20 years of experience in successfully building and driving international business via direct and indirect sales channels.
Thomas holds a degree in Business Administration from Berufsakademie Stuttgart. He started his career at DELL Computer and broadened his experience in working for Novell, Mitsubishi Electric, and Software AG. From here he started building and running international and global businesses for datango, Aptean, and most recently ANSYS. During his career he has held a number of VP and GM positions. He has strong experience in helping organizations reach the next level of success. Thomas brings a wealth of experience in developing and implementing go-to-market strategies as the foundation for growth. He enjoys building customer success based on business values. Thomas will drive the global expansion for inRiver from the Amsterdam office.
Anders Hilmansson
Chief Financial Officer
Anders Hilmansson is inRiver’s CFO, who excels with his energy, grit, and fascination of the SaaS business model. He leads by energetic example and teamwork is according to him key for a successful organization.
Before turning inRiverian, Anders was CFO for the largest SaaS email marketing company in the Nordics. He has a background in legal and brings key experience of M&A from his early years at Sweden’s top tier law firm. Anders holds an LLM from the University of Lund and soon an eMBA specializing in Financial Management from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Maria Bolmstedt
Vice President, Services
As the head over EMEA Services, Maria Bolmstedt is leading inRiver’s Global Support Team and EMEA Customer Success Strategy. Bringing with her over 30 years of experience helping to make customers successful, with over 20 years in the software industry, she is looking for new ways to enhance inRiver’s customers’ experiences and service offerings.
Before joining the inRiver family, Maria drove the execution of support strategies focusing on business management aimed at improving customer experiences in a cost efficient and data-driven manor for organizations such as Qlik and Consafe Logistics.
Maria is passionate about people, data, numbers, technologies, improvements, but most of all, she holds the highest level of importance to the value she adds to her customers’ experience.
Johan Boström
Co-Founder and Evangelist
Johan Boström is a senior business leader with over 20 years of experience leading international technology companies and is one of the founders of inRiver. Before founding inRiver, Johan held leading positions at DDMM, Sema Group Consulting, and UDK. He has worked with PIM, e-commerce and content management since the mid-1990s in both EMEA and North America.
Johan studied data communication, system development, and philosophy at the University of Umeå.
Board of Directors
Jorgen Smidt
Chairman
Jorgen is a professional board member and chairman in several innovation-driven companies worldwide such as FreeSpee, FlatFrog Laboratories, Asetek, Onomondo, and inRiver. Previously, Jorgen was a global telecom executive and held multiple international executive roles at Nokia, during the period in which Nokia was the forerunner of the mobile phone revolution. He is now a venture partner at Heartcore Capital, formerly known as Sunstone Capital.
As a founding partner at Sunstone Capital, he was instrumental in establishing fund structures, raising funds, and developing strategy; combined team efforts resulted in Sunstone becoming one of Europe’s top performing funds. He holds a degree in Computer Science from København’s Teknikum.
Jim MacIntyre
Member
Jim MacIntyre is a serial entrepreneur with over a 20-year track record of technology innovation. He is the Chairman and CEO of Product Lab, a private incubator of technology companies. He also serves as a board member of other dynamic, high-growth technology companies, including Tealium, Optoro, and Logi Analytics.
MacIntyre was founder and CEO of pioneering, real-time visual analytics firm Visual Sciences (NASDAQ:VSCN), which was acquired by Omniture (NASDAQ:OMTR) for $394MM in late 2007. Later he served as Chief of Ecommerce Technology for GSI Commerce (NASDAQ:GSIC), which was bought by eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) in 2011 for $2.4BN.
Hadar Cars
Member
Hadar has several years experience from leading positions in high tech companies. He started his career at Ericsson, and went on to become CEO at CellPoint Systems, and was instrumental in founding the 3G-operator Orange in Sweden. For the past 10 years Hadar has been working with investments in new technology companies including as a partner och Sverigechef at Eqvitec. Since 2011, Hadar has been with Industrifonden, a Swedish investment company, primarily working within the areas of telecom, software and internet. He also serves as a board member in several companies.
Carl-Fredrik Lindner
Member
Carl-Fredrik Lindner is active as investment manager at Lionpeak AB, closely related to Walstone International Ltd. Lionpeak AB is a privately owned Investment Company with numerous investments in the tech and life science sector. Before joining Lionpeak, Carl-Fredrik held positions at Lenner & Partners Corporate Finance AB, and the venture capital fund Life Equity Group.
Carl-Fredrik holds a Master in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has also studied Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UCSD, University of California San Diego.
Pål Malmros
Member
Pål is a partner and head of the software vertical at Verdane Capital Advisors and has worked closely with companies such as C3 Technologies, eBuilder, Newscycle and Bythjul.com. Pål joined Verdane Capital Advisors in 2007 from hitta.se, where he was the marketing and business development manager. Pål began at hitta.se in its early start-up phase and helped the company become Sweden’s most widely used online directory. Prior to hitta.se, Pål worked in other Schibsted subsidiaries, such as Aftonbladet and SvD, and was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, Stockholm.
Pål holds an MSc from the Stockholm School of Economics and participated in ITESM’s (Mexico) MBA program.