Leadership

Michael Hallén, Chief Executive Officer

Michael Hallén

Chief Executive Officer

Michael has 25 years of experience in the global software business. Michael most recently comes from Qmatic Group, a Swedish software and hardware company in the Customer Experience Management space where he was the CEO. Prior experiences include the CEO position at Boss Media (Gaming Entertainment Software) and the CEO position at IFS (ERP software). Furthermore, Michael has held several non-executive directorships in various tech companies and currently, he holds a board position at Paxport.

Pierre Milet

Chief Financial Officer

Pierre has +30 years of experience working in finance senior executive positions. For the last four years, he worked as CFO at Infovista, a global Tech company.

Prior experience includes working as both CFO and COO for Tech and Service companies with global footprints (Lucent, Avaya, CWT, One2Team). He started his career as auditor in one of the big four accountancy firms. He holds Master of Economics and Public law from Sciences Po Paris.

Pierre Milet
Anna Nilsson

Anna Nilsson

Global Head of HR

Anna has a proven track record in delivering strategic projects to engage and support employees in high-performance work cultures. At Vizrt she is tasked with bringing an employee-focused, data-driven structure and strategy to support employees. Anna joined Vizrt in January 2020 before becoming Global Head of HR and in January 2022. Prior to this Anna held various roles in Finance and HR for Scandinavian airline SAS, Deloitte and Nasdaq.

Daniel NergĂĄrd

President of NDI

Daniel has more than 25 years of experience working in the information technology and services industry. For the past six years he has served Vizrt in two different roles, President Vizrt Americas and also the Chief Revenue Officer of Vizrt contributing to the management team before transitioning to NDI as the President.

Prior, Nergård’s expertise was sought in the technology industry, holding key roles in general management and leading commercial initiatives across diverse software segments such as fintech, mobile applications, infrastructure, and enterprise software where he played a pivotal role in creating high performing teams and utilizing emerging digital technologies to transform customer experiences, companies, and entire industries.  

Daniel NergĂĄrd
Vanessa Walmsley, Head of Customer Success

Vanessa Walmsley

Global Head of Customer Success

Vanessa is an experienced senior director, with proficiency in operational efficiency and company performance. At Vizrt, she has worked for nearly four years across Professional Services, bringing insight into business development, leadership and management, before setting up our Customer Success organization in 2020. Before joining Vizrt, Vanessa was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Mood Media Corp and a Global Business Development Manager for Qmatic.

Steve Taylor

Vice President, Research & Development

Steve joined in 2022 as the Vice President of R&D and is responsible for the globally distributed product engineering team. He has had an extensive career building and leading high-performing engineering teams around the world working closely with customers and product management. His experience includes more than 20 years from the broadcast industry (NDS, Cisco Service Provider Video, Synamedia) covering content discovery, video streaming, content security and user experience solutions.

Steve Taylor, VP R&D
Ulrich Voigt, Head of Global Product Management

Ulrich Voigt

Global Head of Product Management

Ulrich Voigt is the Global Head of Product Management at Vizrt . Prior to his current role, Ulrich was the Head of Design at Qvest Media for nearly five years and led the development of multi-system technology solutions and products in the broadcast, broadcast-IT and cloud domain on a strategic level and in specific project environments. Before Qvest Ulrich was a Senior Lead IT Architect for IBM, working with the organization for over 19 years in various roles in the M&E industry.