Sven Lingjaerde
EUROPEAN TECH TOUR ASSOCIATION
President
41, Swiss
www.techtour.com
Lingjaerde likes to have his feet in two places. A Swiss national with Norwegian roots, he started making transatlantic deals about 15 years ago as a general manager of GeneVest, a Swiss venture capital firm.
In 1997, he cofounded Vision Capital, with offices in Menlo Park, California and in Geneva. The company specializes in helping emerging European companies enter the U.S. market.
Trying to match European tech firms with American...