A new position and a new face at Smoltek

Smol­tek is strength­en­ing the man­age­ment team with a new role that lies in between sales and R&D. A vital pos­i­tion in order to close licens­ing deals. And in late august the com­pany found the right can­did­ate for the pos­i­tion. His name is Karl Lundahl, and he has spent almost his entire career in the semi­con­duct­or industry.

“I have nev­er ceased to be fas­cin­ated by the pos­sib­il­it­ies of tech­no­logy, products and mar­ket poten­tial in the semi­con­duct­or eco­sys­tem. As one of very few semi­con­duct­or com­pan­ies in Sweden, I have for quite some time been inter­ested in Smol­tek as a com­pany. I am there­fore super-excited to now becom­ing a part of Smol­tek and to get the pos­sib­il­ity to con­trib­ute to fur­ther expan­sion of the company’s business.

The semi­con­duct­or industry’s con­stant demand for mini­atur­iz­a­tion and high­er per­form­ance is what cur­rently is driv­ing the need for Smoltek’s pat­en­ted tech­no­logy. There are already a num­ber of con­crete examples of very inter­est­ing oppor­tun­it­ies to imple­ment Smoltek’s product offer­ing where the tech­no­logy has the poten­tial to enable more high-per­form­ance, robust, smal­ler and cheap­er semi­con­duct­or com­pon­ents and systems.

For a small com­pany, how­ever, it is dif­fi­cult, if not impossible, to execute and deliv­er on all the busi­ness oppor­tun­it­ies that is offered by the vast semi­con­duct­or industry. I there­fore believe that one of the biggest chal­lenges in my new pos­i­tion as VP Product Man­age­ment at Smotek will be to pri­or­it­ize wisely. In this work I think that it is import­ant to have a sol­id under­stand­ing of both your own and your competitor’s tech­no­logy. Hav­ing worked with applied R&D for semi­con­duct­ors and elec­tron­ics the past 15 years I believe that am quite well equipped in order to nav­ig­ate in the eco­sys­tem and to identi­fy and execute on the com­mer­cial oppor­tun­it­ies that exist – and to (equally import­ant) act­ively avoid execut­ing on the cases where the con­di­tions are less optimal.

I am truly look­ing for­ward to become part of Smoltek’s excit­ing journey!”

Image: Karl Lundahl, VP Product Man­age­ment at Smoltek