Management

Gunnar has over 25 years of experience working in various IT companies in ERP implementation and development projects. He has worked as Sales Director Dynamics (NAV, AX, CRM, SharePoint, BI) for Advania Iceland. Before that he was the CEO of Hugur hf. He holds a Cand. Oecon degree in Business and Economics from the University of Iceland.

Prior to joining LS Retail, Bergthora was Head of Human Resources at Novomatic Lottery Solutions. She has also worked in various managerial positions at Siminn (Telecom) and Samskip (Transport and logistics). Bergthora holds an M.Sc. degree in Human Resource Management form Stirling University, a B.Sc. in International Marketing and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Reykjavik University.

Qiping has been with LS Retail since October 2007. From the start, he was heavily involved in building the LS Retail business in the Asia Pacific region. Qiping has over 20 years of experience in retail IT. He acquired strong industry knowledge through various roles, ranging from software development to product management, to partner & channel management, throughout his career with LS Retail, K3 Business Technology Group and Toshiba TEC in the UK and Singapore.

Carsten joined LS Retail in 1998, and has been working in business development since 1994. This includes the development of concepts for various types of partners, first for Navision and later for LS Retail. Before joining Navision (now Microsoft Dynamics NAV), Carsten worked for 6 years with IBM AS/400 applications, trained on  Office/400 and was a part of a development team developing ERP applications (Finance/400).

Waddah joined LS Retail in January 2014 after having managed the distributor relation in the MEA region since 2006. His primary focus has always been customer satisfaction, quality results and growth. Waddah is now the Vice President overseeing LS Retail’s expansion and profitability in the region and is also supervising the development of LS Academy, our training platform. In addition, he has been successfully working with Microsoft Business Solutions and as a Channel and Account Manager since 2000.

Matthias joined LS Retail in April 1996. In between, he was CIO for a large retail organization for two years. During his 30 years of experience in the information technology industry, Matthias has led and taken part in the birth of numerous products/systems both as a team member and as a leader. Matthias holds a B.S. in Business Computer Information from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, United States.

Petur has been with LS Retail from the start. A Computer Science graduate from the University of Iceland, he initially worked as a developer before taking on the role of Product Manager. Petur is now the Product Director for LS eCommerce – focusing on developing software solutions for web and mobile.

Gudrun, also known as Gua, was introduced to NAV in 1998 when she started working for Landsteinar DK in Denmark. She has been working with the LS Retail solutions since then. Gua has been involved in various retail projects, developing, consulting and training partners in different countries around the world. Before she became a Product Director, her responsibilities at LS Retail were as a senior developer/consultant, Training Manager and Development Director for LS Nav.

Martin has over 20 years of experience in IT business solutions as a developer, consultant, pre-sales consultant and project manager, with a long professional relation with LS Retail. He has worked mainly in the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem, but he also had professional experiences with Oracle and Intentia/Lawson. His experience includes implementing ERP applications, CRM, Datawarehouse/BI and Workflow solutions.