The Management Team
Lars Percy Andersson, Founding Partner, InnovationManagement.se and The Hard Copy. Lars is an international serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience in business development. Lars is an economist by profession with extensive management training from the leading global business school IMD in Switzerland and has a Bachelor’s degree in behavioral science & psychology.
Previous positions:
Computerland Sweden, Computerland was the world’s leading distributors of Apple and IBM during the 80’s and 90’s. The Personal Computer (PC) was one of the biggest inventions during this time period. Lars held the position of CEO and the challenge was to bring a “game changing” product to the market.
Mediaring Inc. started in 1990 in Singapore with a patented technology in sound and video compression. Mediaring became one of the world’s leading IP Telephone companies. Lars held the position of Senior Vice President in Business Development and spent 10 years building and developing the company. Mediaring did an IPO at the Singapore stock exchange as the first internet technology company in 1999.
Innovation management experience:
Senior Consultant, executing in major innovation programs for multinational companies in the food and clean tech industries. Under Lars’ leadership there were several award-winning innovations, including from the Swedish Ministry of Agriculture.
CEN/TEC 389 Innovation Management was created in November 2008 to support a culture of innovation in Europe and accelerate the access of innovation to both domestic and global markets. Lars held the position as Vice Chairman for the Swedish Committee in the CEN/TC 389 program.
Lars is also a member of an international advisory board in one of the world’s leading research- and innovation management companies.
Karin Wall, 
Chief Editor InnovationManagement The Hard Copy & Publisher InnovationManagement.se. Karin is passionate about creating content that matters to the readership. She has experience from a variety of publications as a writer, translator, editor and project manager. She also has experience in managerial positions such as head of communications and responsible for creating and executing communication strategies in major innovation programs in MNCs. She holds a Bsc as well as extensive studies in media and communications.
Georges Haour, S
enior Advisor, is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at IMD. He also acts as an adviser to firms and organisations in his area of value-creation through effective management of the innovation process, as well as commercialisation of technology. Dr. Haour is also the author of Resolving the Innovation Paradox. His latest book, From Science to Business, was published in November 2010 by Palgrave. For more information, please see: www.imd.ch/about/facultystaff/haour.cfm
Zahid Hussain, 
Pakistan Country Manager and regional co-coordinator for GCC countries. He is a media executive with over 30 years experience from both strategic and executing missions such as assignments for international groups of publications (Euromoney, Asiamoney, Petroleum Economist magazines of Euromoney Institutional Investor Group, Forbes, Forbes Global, Forbes Asia, and Financial Times) in and outside Pakistan.
Zahid Hussain is a graduate in International Relations and has acquired innovative integrated social sector and corporate strategic planning, cross-media content / product engineering, branding and co-branding, production, packaging and marketing skills.
Camille Duran, VP Sales/Business Development. Camille has a strong passion for growing businesses in highly-competitive environments. He holds an Msc. in electronics engineering from ISEN and has been trained in strategic marketing for the defense industry (DCNS). He has been involved in digital distribution for the music business and has also worked with several global organizations in applying LEAN and Operational Excellence to their communications.
