Profile

Jon M. Martinsen

Jon M. Martinsen, a Norwegian citizen, started his career with Telia InfoMedia, a subsidiary of the Swedish Telecom, as Finance Director for their Norwegian subsidiary. Martinsen later moved to Sweden to lead the IT department in developing and implementing systems for use in all of their Yellow Pages subsidiaries. Additional responsibilities were given to Martinsen in the area of international business development. As a result of his business development activities Martinsen was promoted to Commercial Director in the Netherlands in 1994.

With Telia’s purchase of HEROLD Business Data AG, Martinsen was again promoted to Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for Sales and New Media departments. He was then named Managing Director and Chairman of the Management Board when Verizon Information Services purchased the company from Telia.

Under Martinsen’s leadership, HEROLD was transformed into an innovative media publisher and a trailblazer in the Austrian data and information business. His successful management helped HEROLD be chosen as the most dynamic company in Lower Austria and the 8th most successful company in all of Austria in 2001 according to a ranking of Austria´s leading companies. In 2002 HEROLD again took first place in Lower Austria and 6th place in Austria in the same competition.

His successful management style ranked him among Austria´s top managers in the yearly manager rankings. Most recently he was nominated among 15 Austrian top managers to receive an award for the most successful Austrian entrepreneurs and managers.

In 2003, HEROLD and the former European Verizon-subsidiaries were sold to VSS Veronis Suhler Stevenson and 3i and Jon Martinsen was appointed to the management team of the new company, Mediatel Holding GmH, in addition to serving as country manager for Austria and Hungary.

Following his work with Mediatel, Martinsen was a board member and CEO of Svaret I Skandinavia AB, a successful local online Yellow Pages company in Sweden.

From Nov 2005 Jon Martinsen has been CEO and shareholder of ClearVision Holding in Vienna, Austria which focused on investments in IT and media Companies in Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. As a result of his work at ClearVision, Jon Martinsen took over the postion as CEO of one of the leading IT companies in Austria, Data Systems Austria AG.

He studied at the Oslo School of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance.

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