Symbian

SYMBIAN LTD (Nokia subsidiary)
Official Website: http://symbian.nokia.com./
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Location: 1 Boundary Row,Southwark, London SE1 8HP. United Kingdom.
Founded: 1998
Business: SMARTPHONES, Operating Systems
Contact
Phone: +44-20-7401-1150 and 44 20 7154 1000
Fax: +44-20-7183-6100

Background

"The Symbian Foundation (formerly Symbian Ltd.) hopes that its relationships with mobile device makers will be mutually beneficial. The organization develops and licenses the leading global operating system for so-called "smartphones" (mobile phones with advanced features such as email capability and Web browsing). Symbian's licensees include leading global mobile phone maker Nokia, as well as other top manufacturers including Sony Ericsson, Samsung Electronics, Fujitsu, LG Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric, and Sharp. The Symbian mobile operating system is developed and distributed as open source software and is available for use by any manufacturer on a royalty-free basis." Hoovers

"established on 24 June 1998 as a partnership between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, and Psion to exploit the convergence between PDAs and mobile phones. Ten years to the day after it was established, on 24 June 2008, Nokia announced that they intended to acquire the shares that they did not already own, at a cost of €264 million. On the same day the Symbian Foundation was announced, with the aim to "provide royalty-free software and accelerate innovation", and the pledged contribution of the Symbian OS and user interfaces. The acquisition of Symbian Ltd. by Nokia was completed on 2 December 2008, at which point all Symbian employees became Nokia employees. Transference of relevant Symbian Software Ltd. leases, trademarks and domain names from Nokia to the Symbian Foundation was completed in April 2009..." Wikipedia

"In 2009, we established the Symbian Foundation to make the Symbian platform available open source and royalty-free. In November 2010 we announced that the foundation would ramp down its operational activities as a result of changes in global economic and market conditions.

We have now completed the transition from a non-profit organisation responsible for governing the open development and curation of the Symbian platform, to a licensing entity with no permanent staff. Moving forward, the foundation is responsible only for specific licensing and legal frameworks put in place during the open sourcing of the platform.

The Symbian platform will continue to evolve under Nokia, who have started to make the future development of the platform available via an alternative direct and open model..."Symbian

• "Symbian Limited, a software licensing company, creates and licenses open operating system for mobile phones. It offers Symbian OS, a mobile operating system for smartphones; location based services; FreeWay, an IP networking architecture for downloads, audio/video streaming, and VoIP calls; and ScreenPlay, a graphics architecture product, which provides big screen effects to the users. The company also provides Symmetric multiprocessing for running applications, such as GPS and digital TV; and Demand Paging, which enables the usage of RAM by loading read-only code and data. It serves handset manufacturers, handset vendors, and network operators. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom with additional offices in the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States. BusinessWeek 2012

Products

• SMARTPHONES

• Symbian Operationg System

Licensees

Licensees of Symbian's operating system were:

Arima BenQ Fujitsu Lenovo Matsushita Motorola Nokia Samsung Sharp Siemens Sony Ericsson

People Responsible

Board Members There are 19 Directors, including

• Tim Holbrow, Executive Director

• John Forsyth, Technology and Delivery Management

• Robert Ackland, Technology Manager Runtimes

• Peter Gershon CBE.FR Eng.,Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Symbian Ltd. (aka Symbian Software Ltd.)

Age: 64

Non-executive Chairman of investor board of Vertex Data Science Limited since September 2007.

Chief Executive Officer of Premier Farnell Plc since July 4, 2005. Non Executive Chairman of Premier Farnell Plc from March 1, 2005 to June 14, 2011. Deputy Chairman of Premier Farnell Plc from June 2004 to March 2005. Non Executive Director of Premier Farnell Plc from June, 21 2004 to June 14, 2011.

From April 2000 to March 2004, he served as the first Chief Executive of the Office of Government Commerce, which was responsible for leading a major programme of procurement reform in UK Civil Government.

Chief Operating Officer of BAE SYSTEMS plc since 1999. Non-Executive Director.

Managing Director of Marconi Electronic Systems.

A Member of the GEC Plc Board from 1994 to 1999.

Managing Director of GPT, the telecommunications from 1990 to 1994

Managing Director of STC Telecommunications from 1987 to 1990.

Non-Executive Chairman of Tate & Lyle plc since July 23, 2009. Independent Non Executive Director of Tate & Lyle plc since February 1, 2009.

Chairman of General Healthcare Group Ltd.

Chairman of National Grid plc since January 1, 2012 and served as Deputy Chairman from August 1, 2011 to January 2012.

A Member of the Advisory Board of the UK Defence Academy, a Member of the Court and Council of Imperial College and a Member of Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

A Member of European Advisory Board of BT plc.

Non-Executive Director of HM Treasury

Since September 2003, he has been leading an Efficiency Review of the whole UK Public Sector, at the request of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was awarded the CBE in 2000 for services to UK Industry and was knighted in 2004 for his work on public sector procurement. He holds degree in mathematics from Cambridge University.

Key Executives

• Nigel Clifford, Chief Executive Officer of Symbian Ltd. since June 2005

Age: 51

He has wide experience across a number of sectors, including the wireless telecoms and OSS software sectors. He joined Symbian in June 2005 from Tertio Telecoms Ltd. Mr. Clifford served as Chief Executive Officer of Tertio Telecoms Ltd., working with private equity groups Apax Partners and Advent International to build and eventually sell it.

Executive Vice President of Evolving Systems Inc.

Chief Executive Officer of Micro Focus International plc from May 1, 2010 to April 15, 2011. Executive Director of Micro Focus International plc until April 15, 2011.

Non Executive Director of Anite plc since April 1, 2009.

Senior Vice President Strategy, Technology & Architecture, Devices at Nokia since December 2008.

Prior to this, he worked for Cable and Wireless heading up its operations for the UK and served as its Senior Vice President, Service Delivery.

1992 to 1998, Mr. Clifford served as Chief Executive Officer of Glasgow Royal Infirmary University NHS Trust.

He started his career with BT, holding a number of product management and marketing roles, including business strategy and development with BT Mobile.

Mr. Clifford is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds an MBA from Strathclyde University.

• Juha Christensen, Founder

Age: 46

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Sonopia Corporation.

A Venture Partner at Sunstone Capital A/S, where he is a part of the Technology team. He is focused on mobile, telecommunications, media, and Internet at the firm. He joined the firm to become part of the team that drove the establishment of the firm.

A Venture Partner at Vaekstfonden. Mr. Christensen is an experienced Coach and Board Member to Chief Executive Officers, providing sparring in areas like strategy, scaling companies, offshore development, and constructing high performance teams. He is an entrepreneur, industrial thought leader, and a key pioneer in the development of mobile operating systems and wireless applications. Mr. Christensen has broad senior management, Board level, and investment expertise across Europe, the United States, and Asia. He has driven and participated in multiple exits within mobile, software and Internet.

Executive Vice President of Macromedia Inc. He also served as the President and General Manager of Mobile and Devices unit of the firm since January 2004, bringing to market a range of diverse Internet and mobile products. During his time at the firm, Mr. Christensen wrote its first business plan, which defined the firm’s overall strategy, vision, and operational platform. He led the core team responsible for bringing together joint venture and was also a Board Member and Executive Vice President in charge of product management, marketing, sales, business development, evangelism, and supplier relationships.

Mr. Christensen served as a Corporate Vice President of the mobile devices division at Microsoft Corporation, building its franchise in the mobile industry. He ran the firm’s mobile platform efforts, bringing to market Pocket PC and Smartphone. Mr. Christensen was also responsible for Microsoft's participation in several worldwide wireless standards bodies and developed the strategy for company-wide mobility solutions and scenarios.

Before this, he wrote the business plan, led the negotiations, and co-founded Symbian Ltd. in 1998.

Previously, the Vice President of Licensing at Psion Plc.

Chairman of Cogniance, Cloudmade, and ExpandIT Solutions A/S. Mr. Christensen has been a Director of Teleca AB. since 2004. He was a Director of Trolltech AS since September 2005, Action Engine Corporation, and Unwire.

• Thomas Chambers, Chief Financial Office

Chief Financial Officer of Symbian Limited, since November 2000.

Operating Partner at Frontiers Capital Partners LLP. Member of Advisory Board at Frontiers Capital.

An Acting Group Finance Director of System C Healthcare plc. from January 1, 2010 to July 12, 2010.

An Interim Chief Finance Officer at Micro Focus International plc. until August 10, 2010. Director of Micro Focus International plc.

Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. He has 20 years of financial and management experience including several stock exchange listings, mergers and capital reconstructions.

Chief Financial Officer of First Telecom European voice telecoms and ISP reseller and SDSL implementer in Germany, prior to its acquisition by Atlantic Telecom. Member of Advisory Board at First Telecom.

Before First Telecom, he served as Finance Director of Robert Walters plc at the time of its full market listing in London and merger with U.S. listed StaffMark, Inc.

Chairman of Swedish based UIQ Technology AB.

Non Executive Director of System C Healthcare plc. since February 2005

Non Executive Director of Kings Arms Yard VCT 2 PLC since October 13, 2010.

He is an Associate of The Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Spent six years within the Corporate Finance Department of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

Mr. Chambers is a graduate of Durham University.

• Jørgen Behrens, Executive Vice President of Marketing

Jørgen Behrens serves as Executive Vice-President Marketing of Symbian Limited. In this role, Mr. Behrens oversees product planning and corporate strategy. He leads the Symbian's drive to bring Symbian smartphones into a higher-volume, lower-cost market and promotes the ecosystem for customers, partners, network operators and developers worldwide. Mr. Behrens manages the expansion of the Symbian OS v9 product family and his team was responsible for the world's top five handset vendors announcing smartphones based on Symbian OS v9. Mr. Behrens also cultivates strategic partnerships in the development of 3G reference designs as part of Symbian's initial steps in taking Symbian OS into the mass market. He joined Symbian in 2003 with ten years' prior experience as a strategy consultant in the mobile industry. Mr. Behrens holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands.

• Per Selbekk, Executive Vice President of Software Engineering

Per Selbekk has been the Executive Vice President of Software Engineering of Symbian Ltd. since November 2007. Mr. Selbekk is responsible for the development of Symbian OS and its related toolkits.

Prior to joining Symbian, Mr. Selbekk was an independent industry consultant advising world-leading telecommunication companies on next generation network rollout projects, large offshore outsourcing programs and development methodologies.

Mr. Selbekk served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Carrier1 International S.A since January 25, 2002. Mr. Selbekk focused on consolidating Carrier1's legacy IT infrastructure and made it ready to scale for future growth, as well as reviewed and consolidated Carrier1 International's IT personnel department.

Previously, he served as IT Development Director at mobile operator 3 in the UK where he played a key role in mobile operator 3 ’s launch phase.

He served as Chief Information Officer of UUnet.

He holds a business degree from Oslo Business School and a MIM from Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management.

• David Wood, Executive Vice President of Research

David Wood serves as an Executive Vice President, Research of Symbian Limited. As Executive Vice President of Research, Mr. Wood is responsible for specialist inter-departmental collaborative projects within Symbian, covering engineering, strategy and market development, focused on improving the competitiveness and value of Symbian's overall offering. He pioneered the use of object-oriented technology within Psion in the late 1980s and went on to oversee the architectural development of Symbian OS. From 1998 to 2002, he headed Symbian's Technical Consulting department, building and directing teams that worked with Symbian's customers to create the world's first smartphones. Most recently, he served as an Executive Vice President of Partnering at Symbian, fostering sustained commercial success for companies in the Symbian ecosystem through Symbian’s partner programs. He serves as a Founding Director of Symbian Limited.

He joined Psion in June 1988.

He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Intuitive User Interfaces Ltd.

Mr. Wood holds an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and also holds a Doctorate in Science from the University of Westminster.

Investors

"Before its outright purchase by Nokia in December 2008, Symbian Ltd. was owned by Nokia (56.3%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Matsushita (10.5%), and Samsung (4.5%).

The company's founder shareholders were Psion, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola.

Motorola sold its stake in the company to Psion and Nokia in September 2003. Psion's stake was bought by Nokia, Matsushita, Siemens AG and Sony Ericsson in July 2004.

Much of Symbian's initial intellectual property came from the software arm of Psion PLC." Wikipedia

Major Shareholders

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