Kaare Spangsberg

Senior Director Research And Development at Cobham SATCOM
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Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark, DK

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Experience

    • Denmark
    • Telecommunications
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Senior Director Research And Development
      • Jan 2021 - Present

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark Increased the development capacity with 70% FTE. Both scaling and growing the organisation to get more products faster to the market New partners and suppliers Started a new department in Poland Strategisk outsourcing Scaling of development capacity

    • Adviser Board, R&D leadership consulting
      • Mar 2017 - Mar 2023

      Europa Consulting by international consulting company in the field of R&D leadership With a broad technology knowledge base and an extensive 20+ years experience in global R&D leadership, We do consulting assignments as well as interim management. We increase -ROI from R & D and Get the necessary growth opportunities from R & D -Secure R&D Contributes to the company's growth goals, with its own R&D goals to increase revenue -Maturing of R&D organization to increase… Show more Consulting by international consulting company in the field of R&D leadership With a broad technology knowledge base and an extensive 20+ years experience in global R&D leadership, We do consulting assignments as well as interim management. We increase -ROI from R & D and Get the necessary growth opportunities from R & D -Secure R&D Contributes to the company's growth goals, with its own R&D goals to increase revenue -Maturing of R&D organization to increase development speed and efficiency. Consulting in following area: - R&D Management - Strategy Consulting - Technology due diligence - R&D due diligence - Technology Consulting: Industry 4.0 , IOT, Telecommunication, AI, robots, transformation - Change Management, - Product development - scale organisation and product for growth - digital transformation Show less

    • Denmark
    • Automation Machinery Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Vice President Research And Development
      • Sep 2018 - Dec 2020

      Odense, South Denmark, Denmark Head of all global R&D, 7 departments Software, embedded software, hardware(Electronics, Mechanical, ASIC) Execution: Speed up time to market. High growth in RD capacity EOA 022020

    • Vice President Software Development
      • Sep 2017 - Oct 2018

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark Execution and People: 245 FTE, budget 200MDK Off-shore development in India Product management IT Application Development, Telecom, Responsible for the whole TDC's BSS (Business support systems) & Customer and Commercial system, 122 software applications

    • Denmark
    • Medical Equipment Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • R&D Director
      • Jan 2013 - Sep 2017

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark Focus on execution: I Increased launch speed significantly and brought products faster to the market ——————————————— My responsibilities as an R&D Director: - Product line owner (all Widex hearing aids), - Business cases owner - Responsible for global product launch (20+ products) - Responsible for Widex launch and development of the most complex product ("Beyond") I set new standards for product launch "Absolutely second-to-none new product launch," said… Show more Focus on execution: I Increased launch speed significantly and brought products faster to the market ——————————————— My responsibilities as an R&D Director: - Product line owner (all Widex hearing aids), - Business cases owner - Responsible for global product launch (20+ products) - Responsible for Widex launch and development of the most complex product ("Beyond") I set new standards for product launch "Absolutely second-to-none new product launch," said CEO Jørgen Jensen “We have increased our launch speed significantly" & "Brought products to the market in a faster tempo,” said CEO Jørgen Jensen. - Improve & enhance organisational efficiency • Accountable for cross-disciplinary for complete global product launch - R&D product development (Software & hardware), IC/ASIC, IOS, Android, Machine learning, DEVOPS, Blue Tooth - Marketing and product management - Operation, Build, manufacturing, logistic & supply chain I was a member of the WIDEX Product and Portfolio Strategy Board. This was the ultimate decision board for products and product portfolio decisions FDA, ISO 13485 Show less

    • France
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Advisor To The Board
      • Jun 2011 - Jan 2015

      Sverige Advisor to all technologis , mainly IT

    • Norway
    • Medical Equipment Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Managing Director software , R&D Director
      • 2008 - 2013

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark Focus on bringing more products to the market as agreed. Change in culture and process for execution. Secure execution of Laerdal’s biggest and most important product. Customer focus development ——————————————— As R&D Director, I oversaw a variety of functions, including - • Site management - Leading the organisation though 5 Department Manager, and project leader - Software development, project portfolio management and execution • Product leadership & Product… Show more Focus on bringing more products to the market as agreed. Change in culture and process for execution. Secure execution of Laerdal’s biggest and most important product. Customer focus development ——————————————— As R&D Director, I oversaw a variety of functions, including - • Site management - Leading the organisation though 5 Department Manager, and project leader - Software development, project portfolio management and execution • Product leadership & Product Development, Product strategy - Product & technology roadmap; product strategy - Defining and executing products & projects - Development of existing and innovative products in alignment with corporate strategy • Project execution - Project, technology & Platform Portfolio Planning - Project/Program Management - Operation & maintenance of existing products - Software development process and methodologies • Design solutions for customers and partners - Global Partner & manager of customer relationship - Securing visibility, efficient execution and delivery on agreed KPI’s FDA, ISO 13485 Show less

    • Finland
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • R&D Manager
      • 2003 - 2008

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark As R&D Manager for Nokia, my focus was on strategic market deployment and achieving results through the intersection of business & technology. I had budget, people & program responsibility for all TP Hardware (ASIC) operations incl M2M Internet of Things, BlueTooth, neural network, throughout Copenhagen. My specific tasks were as follows - • Portfolio and requirement management (global responsibility) -ASIC / hardware roadmap owner, segmentation, platform life cycle… Show more As R&D Manager for Nokia, my focus was on strategic market deployment and achieving results through the intersection of business & technology. I had budget, people & program responsibility for all TP Hardware (ASIC) operations incl M2M Internet of Things, BlueTooth, neural network, throughout Copenhagen. My specific tasks were as follows - • Portfolio and requirement management (global responsibility) -ASIC / hardware roadmap owner, segmentation, platform life cycle (global responsibility). -Product research, development & execution -Strategy: "CHIPSET" • Vendor/Supply management - Alignment of vendor operations/strategies to reflect Nokias - Execution of continuous & systematic vendor audits • Process Management • Change management • Stakeholder Management - Customers: USA, Germany, China, Japan & Denmark. - Suppliers: Finland, France, US, Korea & Philippines. - R&D cooperation: Finland, US, China & India.

    • Product & Technology Manager
      • 2001 - 2003

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark Nokia creates the technology to connect the world. Powered by the research and innovation, Nokia serves communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers with the industry's most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing. Similar services include telecommunications, mobile platforms, technology advancements. ——————————————— As Product & Technology Manager, I worked across a number of countries to spearhead the product &… Show more Nokia creates the technology to connect the world. Powered by the research and innovation, Nokia serves communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers with the industry's most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing. Similar services include telecommunications, mobile platforms, technology advancements. ——————————————— As Product & Technology Manager, I worked across a number of countries to spearhead the product & technology roadmap, whilst identifying areas of business opportunities for Nokias set of business groups. More specifically, my focus revolved around - • Product & Technology roadmap owner - Project portfolio management - Product portfolio mapping and Business cases (billion € cases) - Program reviews (assessment of status, risk evaluation, quality and priorities) - Change program from customer specific to platform. -Technology Strategy • Identifying business opportunities and technology needs in Nokia’s business groups - Cooperation between sales, marketing and R&D - Identifying technology enablers in the industry - Establish an Innovation forum and process with customer and technology organisation • Vendor management - Audit (processes and knowledge) and assessment of ODM’s and suppliers Additionally, I acted as Chairman of the Steering Committee for platform test systems.

    • Program Manager
      • 2001 - 2001

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark • Responsible for Nokia’s/world first EDGE engine. - Multi site operation with 50 FTE through six managers. - Deliveries were on time and within agreed target. - Deliveries were on time, on budget and on agreed target. • Nokia’s first supplier made RF/HF ASIC. - Multi-site operation with 30 FTE, through five managers (1-2 level). - Vendor/Supply management of this project was the main part of the program. • Made strategy foundation related to the “Chipset strategy”… Show more • Responsible for Nokia’s/world first EDGE engine. - Multi site operation with 50 FTE through six managers. - Deliveries were on time and within agreed target. - Deliveries were on time, on budget and on agreed target. • Nokia’s first supplier made RF/HF ASIC. - Multi-site operation with 30 FTE, through five managers (1-2 level). - Vendor/Supply management of this project was the main part of the program. • Made strategy foundation related to the “Chipset strategy” & “Selecting of suppliers” - Investigate the possibility of outsourcing platform (not Nokia internal developed platform). Evaluating and selection of global vendors - Multi-site operations with 10 managers (sale, sourcing, operation & technology).

    • Project Manager
      • 1998 - 2001

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark At Nokia, I worked as a project manager on a research project spanning from Copenhagen to Southwood (UK) and Tampere (Finland), where our objective was to deliver algorithm for speech synthesis, text translation and speech recognition (speaker independent) In embedded software using machine learning / neural network. As Project Manager, my primary areas of focus revolved around - • 3210 & 3310 Software • Embedded Software • DSP: Audio, protocol, RF, telecommunication •… Show more At Nokia, I worked as a project manager on a research project spanning from Copenhagen to Southwood (UK) and Tampere (Finland), where our objective was to deliver algorithm for speech synthesis, text translation and speech recognition (speaker independent) In embedded software using machine learning / neural network. As Project Manager, my primary areas of focus revolved around - • 3210 & 3310 Software • Embedded Software • DSP: Audio, protocol, RF, telecommunication • Assembler and C on different ASIC / IC

    • Training officer
      • Oct 1993 - Dec 1998

      Selection and traning Courses in NATO Kampsvømmer Kursus frømandskopset https://issuu.com/s.s.r/docs/danske-specialstyrker

    • Belgium
    • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Design Engineer
      • 1997 - 1998

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

    • Norway
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • IT Consultant
      • 1992 - 1997

      Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

    • Sergeant
      • Sep 1987 - Oct 1990

      Sjællandske Livregiment Patruljekursus JGK UN service

Education

  • Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
    2006 - 2009
  • Copenhagen Business School
    2011 -
  • Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
    BSc
    1993 - 1997
  • DTU - Technical University of Denmark
    Diplomingeniør
    1992 - 1998
  • UCLA Extension
    Leadership
    2000 - 2001

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