Board
Bo Göransson
Chairman
Former GD Sida, Ambassador to Kenya and Advisor to the President of African Development Bank.
Babak Sadigh
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 a small, 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.
Alfred Beronius
Funding Advisor
M.Sc. in Engineering with long experience in European development projects.
Kornelia Jaroszewicz
Communications Officer
MsC in international trade graduate 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.
Friends
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 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.
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.
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.
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. Her support helped us on the right course early on. Marianne’s energy and enthusiasm has inspired us!
Mark Smith
Professor at Department of Electronic Systems KTH/Kista Mentor Space, Inicio.