Board

Bo Göransson

Chairman

Former GD Sida, Ambassador to Kenya and Advisor to the President of African Development Bank.

Babak Sadighi

Director of Blockchain Innovation Centre at SICS. Co-founder of Axiomatics AB.

Karoline Beronius

CEO & Co-founder

ICT4D expert with more than 10 years experience from flagship ICT projects in Uganda and Honduras.

Lidia Oshlyansky

Design Lead – Growth Opportunities at Spotify. Previously VP of UX Schibsted Media Group, and Head of UX Research for Emerging Markets at Google.

Maria Cheadle

CTO & Co-founder

Computational linguist with expertise in data driven and agile development in innovation projects.

Team

Map Project consist of an international and agile team that is about to grow!

Karoline Beronius

CEO & Co-founder

ICT4D expert with more than 10 years experience from flagship ICT projects in Uganda and Honduras.

Maria Cheadle

CTO & Co-founder

Computational linguist with expertise in data driven and agile development in innovation projects.

Pascal Murasira

Business Developer & Partnerships Rwanda

Business developer with expertise in launching and running businesses in informal markets.

Justina Arvidsson

Operations officer

Justina has a long experience in management and development of services. She is currently working with Map Project to improve processes and procedures around communication.

Viktoría Alexeeva

Data engineer

Engineer with a background in data science.

Kornelia Jaroszewicz

Communications Officer

M.Sc. in international trade with first hand business, marketing and research experience. Interested in Chinese culture and cross-cultural communication.

Pamela Kawuma

Business Developer & Partnerships Uganda

Business developer Uganda, with expertise working in international markets.

Xanthi Psomiadou

Communications Officer

Inbound Marketer with strong IT background. Result-oriented person that enjoys quality humour.

Eric Samikwa

Developer/ Master student

A Swedish Institute (SI) Scholar currently pursuing a Masters in Embedded Systems at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology.

Marcellinus Sande

Software developer

Ultiro in-house consultant, based in Kampala.

Rizwan Asif

Developer

Robotics and Autonomous Systems scientist, with experience in creating and running small teams.

Polly Bukenya

Software developer

Ultiro in-house consultant, based in Kampala.

Ivan Galiwango Katende

Software developer

Ultiro in-house consultant, based in Kampala.

Acknowledgements

We feel lucky to have so many friends believing in us early on and willing to contribute their time, technical expertise, office space etc. You meet some of them below!

Alfred Beronius

M.Sc. in Engineering with long experience in European development projects. Alfred works part-time with fundraising activities.

Carl Myrén

Carl, of Myrén Films, is a professional filmmaker, who has a special interest in following projects over a long period of time and making so called longitudinal film. Carl has joined the map project team to follow our journey on the quest of making complete, systematic and accurate addresses available to everyone.

Emma Pantagaki

Emma Pantagaki is a university student of psychology. She also has a passion for design, video making, and photoshop and has joined Map Project as a volunteer during June and July 2017. Emma is developing map project video material about the many use cases for Map Project addresses.

Jenny Dannstedt

Service Designer at Antrop. Jenny is a user experience strategist and has supported Map Project in the early stage of developing the idea, use cases and customer experience. Jenny and Karoline, Map Project team leader, share the same passion for good communication, user design and experience and often meet up to bounce ideas and develop current projects. Jenny has also mentored Karoline in previous projects.

Jenny Rudemo

Jenny joined Map Project team in January 2018. During her 6 months internship she was mainly responsible for Communications and development of our Marketing and materials. She also went to Rwanda & Uganda for the field trip to test our app.

Johan Sjölander

Johan Sjölander was part of starting up Map Project in 2016. As a technical lead, he was involved in early research and development, as well as responsible for the development of the first prototype that was tested in Uganda and Rwanda in 2017. With a functioning prototype, we were able to test and confirm our first hypotheses about challenges and solutions. Johan is continuing to supporting Map Project.

Josephine Steffens

Josephine is a student from Frankfurt, who did a 3 months internship with Map Project working with communication, design, and fundraising.

Katarina Gillblad

Katarina Gillblad offered Map Project an office as she had a spare room just when we were starting out without a space to work together. The team was working there between January and March 2017. Modern tools are a great help in making distant work possible, but it is nothing like being able to work face-to-face, support each other and solve challenges together as they arise.

Konstantina Pantagaki

Konstantina Pantagaki joined Map Project in September 2016 for UX/UI, Marketing and Communication. Appart from developing much of our Marketing and Communications material, Konstantina has been involved in the early research and development. She has been responsible for the development of the user interaction with our addressing application, based on research and feedback in the field. Konstantina is continuing to support Map Project.

Lars Albertsson

Independent data engineering and data architecture consultant.

Lina Modin Larsson

Lina joined our team as computer engineer student at KTH, writing Master Thesis at Map Project on GDPR by design. She was UX Designer and GDPR Compliance Officer.

Magnus Boman

Professor of Intelligent Software Services at EECS, KTH. Expert in intelligent data analytics and sensemaking in data science at RISE.

Marcus Törncrantz

PR Manager

Marianne Treschow

Former Director General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) and Member of the Royal Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences (IVA). In April 2017, we sadly learnt of the passing of our advisor Marianne Treschow. We were so excited that Marianne accepted the role of Advisor to the Map Project at the beginning of the autumn 2016. We are happy that we had the chance to meet a few times, pitch our project, discuss our challenges, and how to develop collaboration for the implementation of Map Project.

Mark Smith

Professor at Department of Electronic Systems KTH/Kista Mentor Space, Inicio.