Who is Who on the Board?

Søren Nørlyng, President, has been on the IMAPS Nordic board since 1983. During 1983-91 as secretary and 1991-96 as president. From 1995-97 he is the Chairman of IMAPS Europe and has since 1991 served as the representative of IMAPS Nordic in the ELC (European Liaison Committee). Søren was appointed "Fellow of the Society" of IMAPS US in 1996 and he is now also a Senior member of IMAPS. His company MICRONSULT offers consultative services within microelectronics and does also represent products and technologies for the development and production of passive and active components and microelectronics. Special focus is on materials for miniaturisation and power modules

Paul Collander, the Vice President, has been a member of IMAPS Nordic since 1974 when he started in the microelectronics world and a Board member since 1986. For 30 years he has been with Nokia, starting with setting up the first hybrid production line and when Nokia sold out all PCB and hybrid manufacturing lines he was more involved in searching new manufacturing technologies and to work on the advanced technology supply chain. November 2003 he set up his own consulting and networking business, Poltronic. In the Board his role is among other things being contact point to the IMAPS European Liaison Committee.

Dag Ausen

Dag Ausen (M.Sc.), IMAPS Nordic Secretary since 2003, is senior advisor at SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics in Oslo. He works at the Department of Instrumentation and Microelectronics with main focus on electronic packaging and microsystems technology. Learn more about the institute at www.sintef.no/ecy.

Terho Kutilainen was elected Treasurer of IMAPS Nordic from the beginning of 1997. He was working with Aspocomp Oy Microelectronics since 1979, and is their R&D Director.

The Treasurer's main responsibility is to arrange the financial matters in practice, to help the Board with budgeting and assist with arrangement of conferences. Terho would like to kindly ask all to use our Nordic Giro Accounts when paying the annual fee. Since Terho is the one in charge of our address lists and mailings, any updates should be emailed to him.

Hans Danielsson was one of the founder members of IMAPS Nordic in 1971, and was the president for the first five years and vice president for more than 15 years. With a six years background in thin film microelectronics he started the thick film activity at Saab 1966 and was heading this activity to 1985. Then he was an electronic packaging specialist for the Saab group of companies working a lot with automotive electronics. In 1990 he started his own consulting activity working both with microelectronics and Surface Mount Technology. He is the author of the book "Surface Mount Technology with Fine Pitch Components: The Manufacturing Issues".

Kenneth Dahlberg received his masters degree in mechanical engineering at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm  in 1984. From 1984 to 1994 he worked with mechanical design and electronics packaging at Siemens-Elema. Since 1994 he has been responsible for electronics packaging at Pacesetter AB, now St Jude Medical, in Sweden. Kenneth was responsible for the 1998 exhibition in Stockholm.

Jørgen Skindhøj is Manager Packaging and Interconnect, Oticon A/S, Denmark.