ClaroVision :: Company

ClaroVision Ltd was created in January 2006 by Roman Hnatiuk (now Chairman and CTO) and Francisco Gregorio (now Director Sales and Marketing). ClaroVision’s small team has accumulated more than 90 years of industry and market experience: you will find Nokia, Guestlink, Otrum, and Finlux, all leading in their fields at their time, in our CVs. The board is strengthened by two ex-Nokia Home Communications’ senior executives.

From the first day ClaroVision team has been developing the concept of ClaroVision.NET – an all-in-one TV-based entertainment solution for the living room.

In May 2007 we finalized the seed financing round consisting of both private and public equity and loans from Veraventure, Markku Juslin (business angel), and Tekes. This financing allowed us to start full scale development activities, and our product has reached the Beta milestone in April 2009.

In May 2009 ClaroVision was among the seven companies that have made it to the Venture Cup Open Final, a business plan competition with 1,000,000 € funding package from Tekes as a main prize.

Roman Hnatiuk

Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Chairman

Hnatiuk is focusing on technology-related aspect of our business, and manages the team responsible for creating the ClaroVision.NET platform. Seasoned software developer and manager with more than 15 years of international experience, he also stands behind the implementation of the digital television component of the platform.

Before founding ClaroVision, Hnatiuk took part in projects related to interactive-, multimedia-, and Internet TV since 1999: first in the Guestlink Global project (Guestlink International Ltd and Otrum ASA), and then in the SuperDigiTV project (Finlux).

Hnatiuk graduated from the I. Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine) with master's degree in Mathematics (majoring in Computer Programming) in 1995, fluently speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, and Hungarian, and is co-author of three patents of inventions in the field of TV-PC integration.

Thorsten Brysch

Chief Executive Officer

Brysch is currently focusing on financing, IPR, and strategic company evolution, including partnering. He also maintains a balanced global connections network. As a self-motivated professional he is fluent in multiple European languages, and has more than 15 years of business experience on various levels, including, but not limited to, business development, strategy, risk management and related senior management positions in the fields of quality assurance, wireless communication, location-based solutions, and very broadly Auto-ID technology and applications with related stints into pharmaceutical, mining, and offshore industries.

Brysch holds bachelor's degree in Engineering/Telecommunications from the Turku Polytechnic (Finland), as well as e-MBA degree from the MI of Helsinki (Finland).

Francisco Gregorio

Founder, Director Sales and Marketing, Board Member

Gregorio, a sales manager with more than 20 years of domestic and international sales experience of business to business solutions and consumer electronics products, is focusing on sales and marketing activities.

Before founding ClaroVision, Gregorio has been with Nokia Consumer Electronics (Germany) as a Sales Manager for hotel interactive systems, Guestlink International Ltd (Finland) as Area Sales Manager for Germany and Southern Europe, Benefon (Finland) as Area Sales Manager of mobile solutions for Germany and Southern Europe, and finally at Finlux (Finland) as Area Sales Manager of consumer electronics goods for the same region.

Rami Virtanen

Product Manager

Virtanen, is responsible for the product management as well as hardware-related part of ClaroVision.NET project.

He has more than 12 years of relevant working experience in the fields of electronic engineering, RF, computer hardware, product engineering and management, and customer care. He has been involved in projects related to interactive television since 1998, during his work at Guestlink International Ltd and then Otrum ASA.

Virtanen holds Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Radio Communication Technology from the Turku Polytechnic.

Kimmo Paaso

Board Member

Mr. Paaso has more than 20 years of international experience. Currently Mr. Paaso is one of the two key founders, Executive V.P. and Member of the Board at Mobile Content Networks, Inc (USA). Prior to that he has held various senior management positions at Nokia, including Vice President / General Manager at Nokia Home Communications Asia (Beijing), and Head of Operations Development at Nokia Networks SEAP (Singapore).

Kimmo Ojuva

Board Member

For over 20 years Mr. Ojuva held international leadership and management positions at Nokia, SemiTech and Metra in a number of countries, and has been involved in the areas of Customer Care, Product Management, R&D and Product Creation. He has held various management positions in the field of media terminal business at Nokia, including Vice President for R&D at Nokia Home Communications. At the present time he is President of the Dimes Association.