Executive Leadership

Jorgen Nilsson

Chief Executive

As Chief Executive at Acision, Jorgen Nilsson is responsible for the day to day leadership of the company, driving innovation and capitalising on the growing opportunities in the mobile data market.

As a telecoms and IT industry veteran, Jorgen has more than 30 years experience in senior executive roles at leading blue chip companies including Ericsson and Compaq. Prior to joining Acision as COO, Jorgen worked for over 10 years at Ericsson where his most recent position was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Vodafone’s Global Customer Unit. In this role, Jorgen was responsible for the management of Vodafone Group’s 21 operators, as well as driving economies of scale across Ericsson’s global sales, marketing, technology and operational teams. Jorgen was also previously part of Ericsson Group’s Extended Executive Team.

Jorgen also spent over 10 years at Compaq, where he held various global sales, marketing and operational roles. In addition, he held several managerial roles at Telia, part of the TeliaSonera Group and a leading telecommunications provider in Sweden.

Karen Griffiths

Chief Financial Officer

As chief financial officer, Karen Griffiths is responsible for corporate finance and ICT functions at Acision.

With over 30 years experience, Karen has a wealth of knowledge in both finance and senior management roles, having operated at CFO, SVP and Finance Director levels. Karen completed 18 years at The Coca-Cola Company where her responsibilities included financial leadership for manufacturing and logistics of concentrate supply, as well as financial shared services for The Coca-Cola Company revenue stream in Europe.

Prior to her appointment at Acision, Karen held the position of SVP & CFO Europe, at technology distribution company, Ingram Micro, and was responsible for 15 countries and centres of excellence in treasury, M&A, as well as tax and credit reporting. Karen also worked as an independent consultant developing and delivering leadership, finance and change management programmes for executives across Europe and the Middle East.

Sherif Hamoudah

EVP Global Sales

As EVP Global Sales, Sherif is responsible for Acision’s global sales and marketing functions to develop new business opportunities and create synergies across Acision’s sales regions to drive strategic growth initiatives, as well as build awareness of Acision’s brand and position in the mobile messaging and services market

Previously, Sherif successfully led Acision’s MEAP region as Managing Director and Vice President, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan for more than two years. Sherif had more than 23 years experience in sales and marketing, working with the mobile operators across Middle East, Africa and Pakistan (MEAP).  Previous roles include MEA Vice President of Oracle’s Telecommunications, Transport & Media Industries division, where he was also a member of the Oracle EMEA Telecom Board, defining Oracle’s strategy and objectives for the telecoms industry across this region. Prior to this, Sherif worked at both Motorola and IBM.

Rob Bellis

EVP Global Services

As EVP Global Services, Rob is responsible for leading the Global Services organisation at Acision to improve operational efficiencies and services dynamics to create a more aligned sales, product and services coalition.

With a passion for execution, Rob combines first class commercial and leadership skills with an excellent track record in supply chain and procurement, having delivered complex negotiations in support and services across international businesses including Oracle, Microsoft and Hutchinson 3G.  While at Hutchinson 3G, Rob led and closed the first 3G unified Messaging platform deal from CMG back in 2001.

Before joining Acision, Rob was leading the multi-billion weapons programmes as part of the transformation and commercial function at the Ministry of Defence.

Andrew Littlejohns

General Counsel and EVP Business Operations

As General Counsel and EVP Business Operations, Andrew is responsible for leading the Group Legal Department and for driving execution of Group wide programmes and commercial initiatives.

Andrew joined Acision from Vodafone UK where he held a number of senior legal and commercial positions. He was a member of the Legal Management Board and General Counsel of Singlepoint (the UK's largest mobile Service Provider) immediately following its acquisition by Vodafone. He subsequently moved to executive commercial roles as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, then Head of Business Development. Prior to Vodafone, Andrew trained, qualified and practised as a litigation solicitor at the London office of international firm, Lovells.

Janet Turner

Executive Vice President, Human Resources

As executive vice president, human resources, Janet Turner is responsible for the provision of HR services, employee engagement and career development at Acision.

Janet has a wealth of experience within the field of human resources with a strong emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. Janet was involved with two of the biggest mergers in the IT industry, Digital/Compaq and Compaq/HP before leading the HR function at Acision through the de-merger from Logica.

Pavel Pokorny

EVP Research and Development

As executive vice president for research & development, Pavel Pokorny is responsible for all aspects of Acision R&D globally, including the execution of Acision’s product strategy.

With almost 20 years of experience within the IT industry, Pavel has a proven track record in building and managing successful teams and programmes across several development centres. He brings with him extensive experience and knowledge across the whole portfolio of Acision products including their design, development and support. Previous to his current role, Pavel was vice president for Engineering and Country Manager for Czech Republic and was directly responsible for building and leading the Prague R&D team to develop and deliver new Acision software products. Pavel joined Acision in 2000 as a Development Manager.

Henk de Boer

EVP Strategy, Technology & Partners

As executive vice president for strategy, technology & partners, Henk de Boer is responsible for developing the company’s business and technology strategy as well as leading the partner and channel teams.

With over 10 years experience within the telecoms sector, Henk brings leadership and strategic direction to Acision. Previous to his current role, Henk was executive vice president for Acision’s Mobile Data Services division, and was responsible for developing and delivering innovative messaging and data services solutions to the mobile operator market. Henk has also held the position of executive vice president of Acision’s product units, and lead the product management & marketing and product engineering & integration functions through the de-merger from Logica. Prior to this, Henk was senior vice president of Logica's messaging business, and helped create a market leading position serving over 230 network operators and service providers with over 1100 deployments across the globe. Henk has held a number of senior management roles at CMG.

Marco Wanders

EVP Product Division

As executive vice president of Acision’s product division, Marco Wanders is responsible for defining, developing and delivering innovative broadband, charging and messaging solutions to the mobile operator market.

With over 20 years experience, Marco brings with him a wealth of market insight as well as technical and commercial experience of operator, video and IP networking markets. Previous to his current role, Marco was executive vice president of Acision’s Mobile Data Control and Mobile Data Charging Business Units. Prior to this, Marco joined Acision from Microsoft where he was responsible for Microsoft’s media platforms business across EMEA. Marco has also held the CMO position at Redback Networks and senior sales management roles at Redback Networks, Cisco Systems and StrataCom.