Advantage offers a highly competent organisation based on our Team Advantage and the associate network.
A team and network of senior international professionals, all with extensive management experience from line organisations.

The team and the associates in the network have many years of experience from international business, particularly in the telecom and consumer electronic industries.

Anders Blomqvist
Managing Director

anders.blomqvist@advantage.se
+46 705 989000

Anders has more than 25 years of experience from international business. He has been at Ericsson Consumer Division as Vice President and Head of the Global Account Management function. He was also Area Director Northern Europe and Vice President & General Manager Germany. Anders has held the position as CEO for a major communication products retail chain in Sweden
(Geab Teleshop) and has a broad management
experience from the consumer electronics sector.

Guido
Tuseo
Partner

guido.tuseo@advantage.se
+39 335 301024

Guido brings to Advantage more than 30 years in senior management positions in the telecom business in Italy. From the late seventies until now, Guido has contributed to the implementation and the success of some of the world wide known brands in the Italian telecom market such as Nokia, Philips and Ericsson. Lately, Guido has been in charge of the development and restructuring of the commercial network of the Italian Mobile Operator Wind.

Francois Pilleron
Partner

francois.pilleron@advantage.se
+33 6 33 01 01 01

Francois brings to Advantage more than 25 years of successful experience in managing sales forces in big as well as small companies, always in the High Tech area. Since 1979 he has been involved in the telecom industry as Sales and Marketing Director for Bosch and Ericsson in France and in the France Telecom group. He has also been Commercial Director for a telecom operator. Francois is now, in his own business consultancy, advisor to company directors in management and business development.

Carlos Calderon Sund
Partner

carlos.calderon.sund@advantage.se
+55 11 8983 0300

Carlos brings to Advantage an extensive experience from doing business in the European and Latin American regions. He has been at Ericsson Mobile as Sales Director Accessories in Latin America and EMEA and Area Manager for Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey. As Area Manager Southern Europe he opened the markets for Anoto. Carlos is a true entrepreneur also with involvement in the Spanish
real estate business.

Peter
Dieckmann
Partner

peter.dieckmann@advantage.se
+49 151 15676368

Peter brings to Advantage more then 20 years of successful experience in managing positions in the Sales and Marketing divisions of all major German key business channels such as Network Operator, Service Provider, Distributors and major retailer. He started his career with Bang&Olufsen, later joined Hagenuk Telecom, Loewe GmbH, Ericsson GmbH and Philips GmbH. The last six years Peter worked for Toshiba Mobile Communication Division Europe setting up the Mobile Phone business in DACH and Benelux.

Barry
Nash
Partner

barry.nash@advantage.se
+44 7836 555888

Barry has a 20 year track record of experience and success in the UK Mobile Telecoms market, having worked in all of the key business channels such as Network Operator, Service Provision, Handset Manufacturer and Handset Distribution A multi-skilled sales and marketing professional, Barry has a track record of generating growth and profit in both the corporate and small business environment He started his Telecoms career with Vodafone before moving to Ericsson as Sales Director, where he built and developed a dynamic sales organisation, establishing Ericsson UK as the largest handset distribution market in the EMEA region.

Carl
Stanley
Associate Partner

carl.stanley@advantage.se
+44 780 222 4044

From the early days of wireless communications in the UK in 1985, Carl has been involved with key positions within the industry. Firstly in service provision with focus on customer service, telemarketing and logistics, then into a 9 year period in sales, marketing and Global Account Management for Ericsson Mobile and finally in handset distribution and content fulfilment. Overlaying this has been several secondments into organisations to support and mentor senior board members in business change strategies.

Tanja
Faber
Associate Partner

tanja.faber@advantage.se
+31 655 143555

Tanja brings to Advantage 15 years of experience of the Dutch telecom market. She worked as Salesmanager Mobile Phones for Ericsson and recently she worked several years as Business Unit manager Mobile Enhancements for distributor Dangaard.She has a relevant network of the decisionmakers in the distribution chain of consumer products. She is an entrepreneur and always looking for new business opportunities.

Ernesto
Fernández Zabalgo
Associate Partner

ernesto.fernandez@advantage.se
+34 629 845 389

Ernesto brings to Advantage a profound commercial and technical background in the telecom and IT industries. He has a wide experience in process and operations management. He is an entrepreneur and he has been operating as consultant in large and medium size organizations to support and mentor senior board members in technological business strategies.

Jürgen
Kulmitzer
Associate Partner

jurgen.kulmitzer@advantage.se
+43 664 201 7771

Jürgen brings to Advantage 20 years of successful experience in the Austrian telecom market. He worked as Major Distributor, division manager for Ericsson Austria AG and iT-AUSTRIA in the telecom business. iT-AUSTRIA was the largest data center for banks in Austria (unit credit group, ERSTE bank). Always he worked with the decision makers in the Austrian market and he has a favorite for the consumer products market in sales and marketing activities. He has a broad management experience from the consumer electronics market and always looking for new challenges.

Ulrike
Haug
Associate Partner

ulrike.haug@advantage.se
+49 160 96841620

Ulrike brings to Advantage 14 years of management consulting experience with focus on the development and implementation of results-driven change management, process- and productivity improvement projects; strategy-, market- and corporate development tasks and the continuous support of the successful corporate development of our client organisations. She has 6 years of HR consulting expertise with focus on executive search, the development and implementation of management audits, assessments and individual coaching programmes. Ulrike has a multi industry track record of developing and implementing successful strategies and results both in the consulting and HR business.

David
Herzenberg
Associate Partner

david.herzenberg@advantage.se
+46 705 504000

David has more than 20 years experience from strategic and operational management positions in Sales & Marketing. He has been at Noll7Noll.com as CEO, Business Area Manager at The Phonehouse and Sales Manager at Mobile operator 3. He has also been Management Consultant at Telia Mobile and Categoric Software. David was member of Ericsson Mobile Future reference group for 4 years. His background even contains experience from Car industry, Consumer Business and Real Estate. David is often involved in Interim Management, Project Management, Organisational & Business development and channel Management.

Maria
Reinhold
Assistant Sales Manager

maria.reinhold@advantage.se
+46 705 989045

Maria brings to Advantage expertise in both sales and administration based on 20 years of profound experience from international business covering different business areas. A broad career latest within LEO Pharma, Ericsson Mobile Communications and Richard Keenan & Company Ltd. As well as being assistant sales manager in different projects Maria is also responsible for the total office administration.

Johan
Karlsson
Associate Partner

johan.karlsson@advantage.se
+46 703 635509

Johan brings to Advantage experience within the areas of marketing, sales and business development, both B2B and B2C. He is an entrepreneur and he has been operating both as CEO and consultant in new-media markets, in which business conduct is constantly changing and developing. Flexibility, attentiveness and dynamic solutions are his key talent.

John
Hunter
Associate Partner

john.hunter@advantage.se
+46 073 0254397

John has an academic background in business and real estate economics. John brings to Advantage experience of social branding, graphic profiling and building market awareness from work with private contractors in Swedens biggest business region. Long term forecasting and ability to distinguish trends constitute significant talents.