Conmark Executive Profiles

Management Team

President & CEO: Markku Mustonen

Markku founded the predecessor company to Conmark Net, Inc. which specialized in pulp & paper mill process automation in 1989. He sold the company to a leading manufacturer of instrumentation systems to the pulp & paper industry in 2001. He moved to the US in 1980 as the first member of the automation division of a major Finnish paper supplier company. He has developed several industrial software products and holds 2 patents in industrial measurement products. He is married with three children.

President, Conmark Finland: Juhani Vanska

Juhani ('Jussi') has an extensive background in international business, most recently running his own business devlopment company. Prior to that he ran a technology transfer company affiliated with similar entities in the U.S., UK, France, Norway, Sweden and the Soviet Union. Jussi's earlier international experience includes stints at Kone Instruments and Valmet Corporation's US operation. He has twice served as Scientific Attache at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, D.C. He has an M.Sc. in electronic engineering from Helsinki University of Technology and an MBA from Pace University, New York. He is married with two children.

VP Sales & Marketing: Chris Lynn

Chris has over 20 years marketing and general management experience in high-technology businesses with international scope. Before joining Conmark Net, he was vice president of marketing for MediaBin, Inc., a publicly traded enterprise software company headquartered in Atlanta. Chris previously set up and ran the US operation of Hagemeyer Cosa Liebermann, an Asia-based technology marketing company headquartered in Hong Kong. He moved to the US in 1994 from Singapore, where he led the $120m prepress and printing equipment distribution operations of the company, and an electronics group. Chris is a Chartered Engineer and holds a B.Sc.(Honors) degree in electronic engineering from Southampton University in England. He is married with two children.

Principal Scientist: Lyman Hurd, Ph.D

Lyman has been Sr. Principal Scientist at MediaBin Inc. (formerly Iterated Systems, Inc.) for the past twelve years holding patents on still and video image processing, and compression. Prior to moving to Georgia, he was a post-doc in the Chaos Group at the University of Maryland. He has worked at Rutgers, Swarthmore and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He earned a Phd in Mathematics from Princeton University and a Bachelor's of Science from MIT. He is married with four children.

President & CEO: Markku Mustonen Markku founded the predecessor company to Conmark Net, Inc. which specialized in pulp & paper mill process automation in 1989. He sold the company to a leading manufacturer of instrumentation systems to the pulp & paper industry in 2001. He moved to the US in 1980 as the first member of the automation division of a major Finnish paper supplier company. He has developed several industrial software products and holds 2 patents in industrial measurement products. He is married with three children.
President, Conmark Finland: Juhani Vanska Juhani ('Jussi') has an extensive background in international business, most recently running his own business devlopment company. Prior to that he ran a technology transfer company affiliated with similar entities in the U.S., UK, France, Norway, Sweden and the Soviet Union. Jussi's earlier international experience includes stints at Kone Instruments and Valmet Corporation's US operation. He has twice served as Scientific Attache at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, D.C. He has an M.Sc. in electronic engineering from Helsinki University of Technology and an MBA from Pace University, New York. He is married with two children.
VP Sales & Marketing: Chris Lynn Chris has over 20 years marketing and general management experience in high-technology businesses with international scope. Before joining Conmark Net, he was vice president of marketing for MediaBin, Inc., a publicly traded enterprise software company headquartered in Atlanta. Chris previously set up and ran the US operation of Hagemeyer Cosa Liebermann, an Asia-based technology marketing company headquartered in Hong Kong. He moved to the US in 1994 from Singapore, where he led the $120m prepress and printing equipment distribution operations of the company, and an electronics group. Chris is a Chartered Engineer and holds a B.Sc.(Honors) degree in electronic engineering from Southampton University in England. He is married with two children.
Principal Scientist: Lyman Hurd, Ph.D Lyman has been Sr. Principal Scientist at MediaBin Inc. (formerly Iterated Systems, Inc.) for the past twelve years holding patents on still and video image processing, and compression. Prior to moving to Georgia, he was a post-doc in the Chaos Group at the University of Maryland. He has worked at Rutgers, Swarthmore and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He earned a Phd in Mathematics from Princeton University and a Bachelor's of Science from MIT. He is married with four children.