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Outstanding Professional Award 2014
Outstanding Professional A ward 2014

More than 30 years of experience in building businesses document and information capture copmaty in the Middle
at 23 years old and just after two years of working, Lars East and africa. Document management giant, Dicom group,
worked with his boss Mogens Merlin to establish Spaceworld, the saw Valuevad’s potential, and acquired it on 2004 to enter the
first Danish IT retailer. His business venture almost coincided Middle East market. He maintained the post as the Managing
with the launch of the Disk Operating System (DOS) in 1986. Director for the company until the acquisition was completed
Space World and Merlin was later acquired by FDB/COOP. in 2008.

The venture was a stepping stone to a career in IT and Driving the business at Tech One Global
less than two years after he established Spaceworld, he moved In 2003, Lars, together with his partners Wasantha
to Kodak a/S as a Business Consultant, where he implemented Weerakoone, rakesh Wahi, and ali Bagash, founded Tech
Kodak-based enterprise document management solutions for Distribution, which rapidly developed to become the leading
the commercial and industrial market segments. value-added Microsoft distributor. For five years, the company
was led by Wasantha, while Lars served as director since he
Lars was promoted as Solutions Marketing Manager for worked full time in Valuevad. During these five years, the
the airline industry after four years to handle the Europe, Middle company grew to having more diverse services outside software
East and africa (EMEa) region. In 1995 Lars relocated to Dubai licensing and distribution and included services such as IT
to take up a position as the Business Manager for Business learning and certification, software development, document
Imaging Systems at Kodak Near East Inc, here he was given the imaging, and professional photo retouching. In 2008, Lars
task to increase the Document Imaging channel sales throughout started to work full time at Tech One global.
Middle East and africa.
In 2009, after seeing growth over a span of six years, Tech
at the end of 1998, during the peak of his 10-year career in Distribution was rebranded to Tech One global.
Kodak he left to co-founded Valuevad, an information capture
technology company in based in Dubai. He considers this move In 2014, a major merger with document management
as the biggest free fall and upturn of his business career. solutions company Sanje Pvt Ltd has allowed Tech One
global to expand its products and services offerings to
His career gamble eventually paid off, as after five offer software trainings, systems development, and mobile
years of leading the company, Valuevad became the leading applications development.

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