Hans Davidsson has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the telecommunications industry. As a Managing Partner of ideaEDGE Ventures in California Mr. Davidsson has had the opportunity to both create, fund and operationally manage several start-up companies in the mobile internet space.

Prior to joining ideaEDGE Ventures, Mr. Davidsson was the Vice President for Ericsson Internet Applications and Solutions, a global organization charged with the task of defining and building new business in the intersection of wireless and internet, resulting in a new core business of Ericsson.

Since 1995 Mr. Davidsson has been an active leader contributing to the fast paced expansion of the consumer division of Ericsson. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he identified customers and built distribution channels for products new to the American market. Before this, Mr. Davidsson was a global director responsible for the development of all Ericsson mobile phones and terminals worldwide.

In 1992, Mr. Davidsson was appointed General Manager of Ericsson, Access Products, where he directed all business, management and technical functions of the organization, consolidating a multi billion-dollar business. Prior to that, he was the head of Product Management and Marketing Support for Ericsson's UK region.

From 1986 to 1990 Mr. Davidsson resided in the UK where he led the development project management office responsible for the British Telecom deployment of Ericsson's proprietary switch architecture, AXE. This multi-year project required the coordination of a 1,000-person global team. In addition, he managed Ericsson's UK software division.

Before joining Ericsson in 1982, Mr. Davidsson worked as an electrical engineer at Siemens. Mr. Davidsson serves on the boards of Aerial Broadband, Inc., Satyam ideaEDGE Technologies Ltd, AsiaCorp.Net Co., Ltd, M7 Networks Inc, as well as Motion Venture LLC. He is also an active board member of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in North Carolina.

In 1980, Mr. Davidsson received a Master of Science degree in Industrial Management and Engineering from the University of Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden.