Sven Freudenfeld joins Lanner as the Global Business Development Director for Telecom Appliances

Mississauga, ON – (PR) – Lanner Electronics Inc, (TAIEX 6245)- a global leader in network appliance and communication hardware, is pleased to announce the addition of Sven Freudenfeld. Sven brings 27 years of experience in telecommunications, network computing, product management and business development.

Before joining LEI Technology, Sven was responsible for global business development at Kontron; focusing on the cloud, media and telecom market segments. He was fundamental in accelerating the adoption for Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (ATCA) technology in the market by working closely with standard organizations such as PICMG. Prior to his role at Kontron, Sven held several engineering positions: Network Engineering at Deutsche Telekom, System Architect at Abewa GMBH, Systems Engineering at Nortel and Test Engineering at Sanmina-SCI.

“As many ISV are looking at outsourcing and offloading hardware, Sven is tasked with leading our SDN and NFV appliance business development efforts to capture this opportunity. Sven’s strong technical background and years of hands on experience in the networking and telecommunication fields offers a unique resource for our customers and sales partners to solve the challenging architectural problems they are facing in the SDN and NFVi segments.” – Jeans Tseng, General Manager of the Lanner Telecommunication Application Business Unit.

Sven joins Lanner at a time where major players in the communications industry are making large strides towards their SDN/NFV goals. His extensive background in Telecommunications and SDN/NFV make him a great fit for his new role at LEI Technology.

“For the past ten years I have seen the telecom network transformation taking place, and it’s now becoming a reality. In this dynamic industry, the business is driven by new ideas and innovations. Lanner followed this direction with a portfolio optimized for network transformation to an NFV&SDN world. It couldn’t come at a better time than now, with NFV&SDN development close to being finalized, this will be a great time to adequately situate Lanner’s network computing division within the movement.” – Sven Freudenfeld.

About LEI Technology

Incorporated in 2010, LEI Technology Canada Ltd serves Lanner’s OEM and Strategic Alliance partners for Lanner.

Lanner Electronics Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of Embedded Computers and Network Appliances, providing reliable and customizable computing platforms with high quality and performance. Lanner provides custom design and manufacturing services along with hardware and software integration to deliver complete systems ready for end users. Today, Lanner has a large and dynamic manpower of over 900 well-experienced employees worldwide with the headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan and subsidiaries in the US, Canada, and China.