Swyx Supervisory Board

Swyx’s supervisory board has a number of well-known and highly experienced senior industry managers. These individuals have a wide knowledge and depth of experience across a number of market sectors including the financial and investment sectors, mobile, voice & data networks, Enterprise/SME, Service Providers and the IT industry, and will help Swyx to further expand its reach and influence into these sectors:

• Frank Böhnke, General Partner of Wellington Partners, Swyx’s primary investor from its initial funding round. Mr Boehnke's investment expertise focuses on the fields of Digital Media and Software Services, and currently he holds seats on supervisory boards of companies like Adconion, Astaro and Safe ID Solutions.
• Royston Hoggarth, a non-executive director of Intercede Group plc, an associate partner of Wellington Partners and a telecommunications and IT industry expert who has previously held the position of Chief Executive at Cable & Wireless UK, Europe and US. Prior to this position, he was Chief Executive, International, at LogicaCMG following the merger of Logica and CMG.
• Günter Junk (Chairman) - In 2005 Günter Junk took over the role of the CEO at Swyx. Before he was Vice President EMEA Operations in the head office of Cisco EMEA in London. In 2008 Günter Junk moved to the supervisory board of Swyx.
• Dr. Wolfgang Schröder - In 1999 he was one of the founders and lead investors of Swyx. In 1991 Wolfgang Schroder was one of two founders of ITK Telekommunikation AG, expanding revenues to around 42 million US$ within 7 years. In 1996 he was elected "Founder of the year" and was honoured by the German minister for economic affairs. Until 2007 Wolfgang Schröder was a member of the Swyx management team.
• Dr. Rolf Werner - Executive Committee, T-Systems. Since April 2008 Rolf Werner has the responsibility for T-Systems sales for SME business customers. For several years Swyx has a successful business relationship with Deutsche Telekom. Swyx UC products are distributed under the OEM name 'Octopus NetPhone Applikationslösung'.
• John Wong - Director, Favonius Ventures. In 1992 he joined the private equity business at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam. When in 2000 the private equity sections were grouped to ABN AMRO Capital, John became part of the IT team investing in promising IT companies in western Europe.