About...

Sverre Horntvedt

President & CEO

Mr. Horntvedt received his Master's degree in electronics from the Technical University of Norway in 1976. In parallel with his studies he worked at SINTEF as a scientific assistant within the field of bio-cybernetics.

After being employed as a researcher by AME in 1977 he became project manager for a transceiver system to be supplied to the Norwegian Army. He became the R&D manager for MEMS sensor development at the end of 1979. In 1980 he became the manager of the sensor division of AME, a position he kept until he co-founded SensoNor in 1985.

From 1985 to 2000 he headed SensoNor as President, taking the company from an R&D entity of 25 people up to 400 people serving mainly the automotive industry.

In the period 2000 to 2003 Mr. Horntvedt held the position of Executive VP with responsibilities for strategic issues.

During the period 2004 to 2009 he headed R&D of MEMS as well as MEMS Innovation worldwide, reporting to Infineon Technologies in Munich. He has served several board positions in Norwegian and international high tech companies, among them four years at the board of SINTEF ECY.

Mr. Horntvedt is a Co-founder of Sensonor Technologies AS.