About the authors

Bent Bentsen

Senior Advisor, Group Payment Services and Infrastructure, DnB NOR Bank ASA and member of Board of Directors, Mobey Forum

Working on corporate telebanking and cash management services since early nineties, Bent took a shift in his career around year 2000. With focus on business development within e-business and new services, mobile financial services evolved as his main field of responsibility within DnB NOR. Joining Mobey Forum in 2001, Bent became the main representative from DnB NOR in 2002. He has hold a seat at the Board of Directors in Mobey Forum since 2006. Bent has been involved in several bank-telcom cooperation activities in the Norwegian market since 2002. From 2004 to 2006 he managed Norwegian Banks' joint project on Mobile BankID, a SIM-based PKI solution for authentication and signing. Present position is Senior Advisor on mobile infrastructure, covering mobile banking, mobile security and mobile payments.

Anders Johannesson

Anders Johannesson is today acting as Regional Sales Director Nordics, Baltic's, UK & Ireland in the Mobile Network Operator Division for SanDisk International. In his career over the last 12 years he has been working for the two largest SIM-card Vendors covering the Nordic and Baltic Region. His experience encompass time from the early days of GSM when the SIM-cards typically held a memory size of 3kB up to at that time the "big" SIM at 8kB. Having been part and lived through the "boom and bust days" of the Telecom/Wireless Industry, Anders holds a broad experience and perspective of what the future SIM landscape can and will offer.

Kjell Røberg-Larsen

Kjell Røberg-Larsen is Head of SIM department at Telenor Norway. Kjell have been deeply involved in the SIM business since he started working in Telenor Mobil in 92. All this years, he has been responsible for the total SIM area within Telenor in Norway. He is also used as a SIM consultant within the Global Telenor group. Under his management Telenor was the first mobile operator world wide to launch a WPKI services on the SIM card in 2000. Kjell have also been active in the SIM standardisation as a member of ETSI SIM standardisation group, SIMEG and SMG9 from 1993 to 2000 and GSMA Smart Card Application Group, SCAG from 1995 to 1999

Peter Öhman

Peter Öhman joined Giesecke & Devrient in 2008 as Region Manager for Scandinavia & Baltics, responsible for the sales of the Telecom Division’s Cards & Services.

Prior to that he was with Valimo Wireless as Region Manager delivering Mobile Signature services, with SSH Communication Security Corp. as Senior Sales Manager. He has also been with Miotec Oy as Business Manager corporate & government sales, with Bull AB as Director Marketing & Communications for Smart Cards and Terminal. Peter was also co-founder of Salamander Bros. Oy, with Oy Mercantile Microsystems and Oy Inter Marketing as Training Manager, and with Oy Findip Ab as a Product Market Manager for the Wang Laboratories.

Peter Taugbøl

Petter Taugbøl is the founder and CEO of Encap AS. Mr Taugbøl has an extensive experience from the mobile industry and the banking industry and he has been working with mobile phone based security and payment services since 1998. Mr Taugbøl has a background from DnB NOR, Ericsson and Telenor International. Petter holds an MBA from IESE (Barcelona), and a B.Eng Hon, Electrical engineering from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh).

Dimitrios Livadas

Dimitrios Livadas is VP Sales of the Mobile Network Operators division, SanDisk Corporation. Before joining SanDisk, Livadas worked in Giesecke & Devrient GmbH as VP Sales of the Telecommunications division and Director of Corporate Sales. Prior to that, Dimitrios was employed by Data Modul AG.

Eytan Pisetzky

Eytan Pisetzky is Senior Director of Marketing for SanDisk’s Mobile Network Operators Division. Before joining SanDisk, Eytan was an Investment Manager at Apax Partners, one of the world’s largest Private Equity funds, where he was in charge of storage and telecom investments. Before that, Eytan spent 14 years in Israeli Military Intelligence in various leadership and management positions and reached the rank of Lt. Colonel. Eytan has an MBA from Harvard Business School.