The Authors

Alexandra Leisse works as Web Community Manager at Qt Development Frameworks in Oslo. Before joining Nokia in 2008, she gained significant expertise in working with developer communities through her contributions to KDE. She is the woman behind the Qt Developer Network and Qt’s community activities on the web.

Despite holding a degree in opera performance, she refuses to sing in public. You can find her close to everywhere on the web.

Juha Latvala works as Director for Qt Development. Juha joined Nokia in 2002 and has been working in application & service creation, technology management and product management for communicators and eseries smartphones. He joined Qt in 2008 and lives (after a 2 year excursion to Oslo) in Tampere, Finland with his wife, daughter, and son.

His free time is spent biking, running and swimming. Being a bookaholic, he is a huge fan of Kindle as it allows for a sufficiently large font size to read also while indoor biking!

Carol Røsland is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Mobile, MIDs, Tablets, Netbooks and E-books at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks. She started working with Qt and the former Qtopia platform back in 2005. Carol has 20 years of marketing experience with mostly technology products such as smart cards, software protection and mobiles.

Carol comes from the San Francisco Bay Area, but has lived in Norway for the last 15 years and is currently working out of Oslo. She’s a self admitted TV slave and wannabe golfer who’s not quite ready to publically share her handicap.

Hanne Linaae is Program Manager for the Qt in Education program. She is a long-term troll, and started off as Product Manger for the Mac port of Qt way back in the day at Trolltech. She holds a MSc. degree in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Hanne lives in Oslo, Norway together with her husband and their three small daughters. She enjoys reading, telemark skiing, and outdoor activities together with friends and family.

David Stone is Qt’s Communications Manager.

Hailing from Australia where he managed the online programs of the Australian Football League and Cricket Australia, David’s skills range from communications and content strategy to marketing and developing online properties. His mandate at Qt is to share the Qt story!

A tech, web, sports and music guy, David represented Norway in its first ever international Australian football match.

Aron Kozak is head of the Web and Community group at Nokia’s Qt Development Frameworks. Aron has been working with Qt in various marketing capacities, off and on, over the past ten years (he also dabbled in e-learning and enterprise software).

He lives just outside Oslo with his wife and two small boys. He curls, watches football, and travels when he can.

Knut Yrvin is co-founder of Skolelinux and a Community Manager at Qt Development Frameworks in Nokia. He has an engineering degree in electronics and a Masters degree (Cand.Scient) in Computer Science and has worked in various businesses from Telecom to consultancy.

Knut won the Norwegian championship in Break Dance back in 1984 and has been a MC for the Miss Norway road show for several years.

Kimmo Eklund is responsible for the Qt roadmap. Prior to that he started his career as a Java J2EE developer in a small software company before he joined Nokia in 2002. He was involved in technology management and later moved on to product management with Nokia’s Eserie’s software and S60.

Kimmo lives in Salo with his wife and three children and spends his free time with his family, reading, running or gardening.

Henry Haverinen joined the Qt team in Oslo after the acquisition of Trolltech and currently serves as a senior product manager for Qt. Over the past 12 years, he has been working for Nokia in various software engineering, research and product management roles. Henry holds an MSc. and a doctor of technology degree in computer science and telecommunications from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

While living in Norway, Henry has acquired a taste for stair climbing and wearing yellow t-shirts on Thursdays.

Daniel Kihlberg has the worldwide responsibility to create a vibrant and broad Qt ecosystem. Prior to his current role, Daniel had the worldwide P/L responsibility for Qt Sales, Marketing and Technical Services. Before joining Trolltech and Nokia, Daniel previously held the following positions: VP of Global Marketing and Brand Management for Siemens mobile, Senior Director Marketing and PR for Jabra and GN, and led R&D and design activities with P/L responsibility for pagers and a next generation of smarthphone models at Ericsson Mobile Communications. Before his close to 15 years in the Telecom industry Daniel was driving sales and technical definition of a wide range of household appliances for the brands Electrolux, AEG and Zanussi.

When he is not in the office, Daniel enjoys traveling the world with his cameras and keeping his multi-lingual skills alive.

Kevin Franklin has headed-up the team responsible for Partnering, Qt Learning, and Qt in Education since 2009. Previously he had a similar role at Symbian and before that held a number of senior product management & business development positions at companies including Avaya, Psion and 3Com. At some point in the dim-and-distant past Kevin claims to have worked in R&D and has a Masters Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Kevin is a native Londoner and still lives there – when he is not working, he enjoys the rain, the beer, and survives one-day-at-a-time commuting into town on his bicycle.