John Strandberg

About

Experience

• Founder & CEO at Reedz
  May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  Reedz is transforming how industries manage multilingual communication and audio, digital production. We combine advanced AI with industry expertise to deliver fast, scalable, and high-quality translation and digital solutions in 80+ languages.

• COO at Kitab Sawti - كتاب صوتي (Acquired by Storytel)
  Sep 2019 - Jun 2020 · 10 mos

  An audiobook subscription startup focused on the Arabic speaking world. Acquried by Storytel Group (publ.) in 2020.

• Founder & CEO at Kingo Company
  Feb 2014 - Jun 2019 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  A fintech and mobile payment solutions provider (Telenor & Qatar Telecom partner). Turnover USD40M and 350 employees. Aquired by a regional business group in 2019.

• Founder & CEO at Edoo Education
  Jan 2014 - Jun 2019 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  E-learning primary and secondary schools (Maths and Science). Successful pilots in Tanzania and Myanmar (80 schools, 8,000 students) in collaboration with Ericsson and Samsung.

• Millicom (Tigo) (Full-time · 6 yrs 8 mos)
  • Global Head of Analytics
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs

    Millicom (publ. US-NASDAQ, SWE-OMX), telecom, online & financial services. USD6B revenues, 40M customers across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Global leadership team reporting to COO and CFO.

  • Africa Pricing & Ops Manager
    May 2010 - Dec 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

    8 markets, USD1B revenues, 20 million customers. Regional leadership team reporting to Africa CEO and CFO.

  • Africa Ops Manager
    Aug 2009 - May 2010 · 10 mos