Nokia Veteran to Head Leading Antenna Developer’s European Operations, Including Newly Acquired Sweden Design Center
Ethertronics Inc., a leading provider of standard and customized embedded antenna solutions for wideband and multi-band wireless devices, today announced that it has appointed Nikolaj Bruun as General Manager, Europe. In this role, Bruun will lead Ethertronics’ sales operations in Europe, as well as the company’s research and design activities at Ethertronics Sweden AB, which is the company’s new Kalmar, Sweden design center recently acquired from Flextronics.
With approximately 15 years’ experience in the global high-technology field, Bruun comes to Ethertronics from Nokia Denmark A/S in Copenhagen, where he had responsibility within both hardware and software development. Bruun most recently served as senior technology manager for Nokia. During his more than eight years at Nokia, Bruun held a number of key positions within hardware portfolio management, requirement management and people management. For six years, Bruun worked as a research and development project manager as well as on sales and marketing for Denmark-based FORCE Technology.
“Nikolaj brings a wealth of experience to Ethertronics and we are pleased to have him on board,” said Jeffrey Crosby, president and chief executive officer of Ethertronics. “We believe that Nikolaj’s management experience in the wireless space coupled with his keen understanding of planning and budgeting make him the perfect fit for running our European operations. Nikolaj also brings extensive experience working on university relations that will enable Ethertronics to have access to potential new employee candidates that will bring fresh technological ideas and concepts to the company.”
Bruun earned a master’s of science in electronic engineering from the Danish Technical University and a bachelor’s degree in economics with an emphasis in finance from Copenhagen Business School.
About Ethertronics
Ethertronics (www.ethertronics.com) designs and manufactures high-performance standard SavviTM ceramic antennas and customized Prestta™ stamped-metal embedded antenna solutions for wideband and multi-band wireless devices. Ethertronics’ antennas incorporate its patented Isolated Magnetic Dipole™ (IMD) technology. The company has an installed base of nearly 100 million units, and a global network of design and manufacturing centers.
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