René Svendsen-Tune

President and Chief Executive Officer

René Svendsen-Tune has more than twenty five years of experience within the IT and telecommunications industries. Since 1990, he has been focused on leadership and management.

Born in 1955, he graduated from Danmarks Ingeniørakademi (now the Technical University of Copenhagen), Denmark in 1981. He stayed on as a graduate student to do research for two additional years before leaving in 1983 to build a carrier within the Danish IT industry for nine years.

In 1993 René joined Nokia and held various management positions in the Nokia Networks regional organization until 1998, when he became a global divisional head of sales at the Helsinki, Finland headquarters. In 2001, he was appointed global head of the entire customer organization across Nokia Networks.

René joined Teleca as President and CEO in June 2006.

René is board member of GN Store Nord and Excitor and an Advisory Board member of NorthCap Partners.