Dr. David Nordfors is a founding partner of Baz  Ventures. He has offices in Sweden and Israel. He has been in contact with  Israeli entrepreneurial activities since 1995, following the build-up of the start-up industry and introducing a number of Swedish key players to Israel.

Before the establishment of Baz Ventures, Dr. Nordfors was the head of research funding at the Swedish Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development (the KK Foundation), designing and running programs for funding research in collaboration between universities and commercial enterprises. During his time at the KK Foundation he funded nearly 150 research projects with  approx 50 million US dollars. The support was matched by commercial enterprises resulting in a total R&D volume of  approx. 100 million USD. The major part of the projects were reviewed in collaboration with established Swedish researchers from universities. For reviewing larger projects he collaborated with the National Science Foundation, USA. Dr. Nordfors was also the initial head of public affairs and developed models and tools for promoting knowledge dissemination. So far, one of the novel methods have been published in the scientific press.

 Between 1993-1995 , Dr. Nordfors was the science editor of Datateknik, a major Swedish magazine for computer professionals. He focused on state-of-the-art and emerging information technologies, analysing their natural limitations and  possibilities from the scientific point of view. 

In 1994 Dr Nordfors initiated and headed the first hearing about  information technology and the Internet to be held by the Swedish parliament. Dr. Nordfors was the first editor of the Internet Societal Task Force (ISTF), appointed directly by the chairman Dr Vinton Cerf, founding father of the Internet and Senior VP for Internet architecture, MCI Worldcom. Dr. Nordfors designed and implemented the initial version of the  ISTF Documentation Series.

Dr. Nordfors completed his doctoral thesis in the Nobel Prize winning research group in electron spectroscopy at the Uppsala University in Sweden, specialising in x-ray electron spectroscopy and computational molecular quantum physics. After his dissertation he worked for two years with research in theoretical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, Germany on a post-doctoral grant from the Swedish national scientific research council NFR.

Robert Eriksson is a specialist in leading information projects, defining strategies, building project  organisations and  assembling project teams. 

He is the founder of a consultancy bureau dealing with information and PR. Mr Eriksson is presently engaged by the Swedish online job trader "Jobline" as Recruitment Director with responsibility for the European market. Jobline is presently building eight European representations outside Sweden.

Mr Eriksson is the founder and president of Infopool ( http://www.infopool.se ), the leading Swedish specialists in leading marketing and information campaigns, including building organisations as well as hiring the people and training and educating them for their roles in the project.

Mr Eriksson was the CEO of "IT-generationen" ("The IT Generation"), a campaign organisation contracted by the KK Foundation for touring Swedish schools and companies in 1995-96 for initiating public awareness of IT and the Internet as tools for collaboration and knowledge retrieval. In a short time the public focus was successfully redirected from how to learn about computers to how to learn with computers. The IT Generation was a road show involving six buses visiting over 400 schools and companies, coming in direct contact with a quarter million people. According to media statistics each Swedish citizen read on average seven news pieces about the IT Generation.

In the referendum concerning joining the European Union Mr Eriksson was the Head of Activities for "JA till Europa", the joint information campaign of the political parties and commercial companies supporting a Swedish membership in the European Union. He was responsible for all public activities in Sweden, such as telemarketing, direct mail, ads, meetings and road shows, including a campaign cruise ship visiting all tourist ports along the Swedish coast.

Mr Eriksson has been the Secretary General of the young conservatives in Sweden and worked as a PR consultant for KREAB and Rikta Kommunikation.
 

Email: sven.otto.littorin@bazventures.com
Phone: +46-708-374123 (Sweden)

Sven Otto Littorin is a Senior Partner at Momentor AB and is one of the founding partners of Baz Ventures. 

He is also a Special Director of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce and a 
member of the Venture Capital-delegation of the National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK). He is Chairman of the Board of ComSearch and a board member of Silverskäret FK (Asset Management), Compenection, Timbro and Bomans i Trosa. 

For more that two years Mr Littorin worked in New York as Senior Vice President of marketing and international business development at Kreab (one of the leading Swedish PR consultant companies) assisting many large Swedish and international companies on corporate communications, financial relations and crisis management. 

Prior to joining Kreab, Mr. Littorin served as Special Adviser to the Swedish Minister for Fiscal and Financial Affairs. As Head of the minister’s political staff, Mr. Littorin worked with issues on venture capital, monetary policy and deregulation. Mr. Littorin is also a former acting Head of Information at the Swedish National Debt Office.

Mr. Littorin is (a former National President of the school branch of Young Conservatives and) a former member of the board of the National Association of Student Unions and of the National Association of Conscripts. Mr. Littorin is an officer in the Royal Artillery.

Mr. Littorin has published several books, and articles in international economics and politics. His works have been translated into English, French, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian.

Mr. Littorin, who is married and has two children, studied economics and business administration at Lund University in Sweden, and received his MBA at Fairfax University, USA.
 

Sara Feinberg has been in contact with the Israeli and Swedish high tech industry since 1998, following the development of the two markets through her education, internships and work. She is currently working in both Sweden and Israel.

Ms Feinberg has an Information Technology education from the Technical Virtual Program, Nackademin College in Stockholm - a COOP-model college in close cooperation with the IT-industry. Ms Feinberg’s three consecutive industrial internships, as part of the Virtual Reality education in the field of IT/Internet, took place in both Stockholm and Israel: 

She has worked with Entra Data (Tieto-Enator group), Stockholm, the Nordic countries biggest provider of e-solutions for banking and finance, where she was involved in Internet projects as well in the customer service. ServerNet Ltd, Israel, Herzeliya, an Application Service Provider specializing in E-Business where she worked with marketing strategies. GraphoNET Ltd., Israel, Haifa, an Internet strategy-consulting firm where Ms Feinberg was involved in e-commerce, e-applications and tools, including a larger web-portal with over 100 000 individual users, an online-directory. Ms Feinberg was the editor of the GraphoNET monthly newsletter with over 3000 subscribers.