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Our Key people

Meet the Emblasoft team

Our Key people

The Emblasoft team

At Emblasoft, we are passionate about building software products that enable our clients to innovate and drive the evolution of the communications industry. Although we’re a new name, our heritage spans more than 35 years of experience, built under the Polystar brand.

We changed our name to Emblasoft following our divestiture of Polystar OSIX to Elisa in 2019. Our HQ is located in Stockholm, Sweden, reflecting our long history.

Mikael Grill

Mikael Grill

Chief Executive Officer

Mikael Grill

Chief Executive Officer

Mikael Grill is a successful serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies, including Polystar, which was acquired by Elisa Automate in 2019.

Mikael is a widely-recognised leader and innovator, who has extensive experience in growing and managing technology companies.

Marie-France Couture

Marie-France Couture

Chief Financial Officer

Marie-France Couture

Chief Financial Officer

Marie-France Couture is Chief Financial Officer for Emblasoft. Marie-France is a chartered accountant with more than 30 years of experience in finance, treasury and accounting.

From 2011 to 2020, Marie-France held the position of CFO at Polystar Osix, an international software company evolving in the telecommunication industry. Prior to that, she held various management positions in treasury and accounting with stock listed companies in Canada.

Stefan Eklund

Stefan Eklund

Head of Sales

Stefan Eklund

Head of Sales

Stefan is Head of Sales for Emblasoft. He is well-known in the industry, having built up an extensive network of connections in the telco domain over a 30-year period.

Previously, he held the position of VP of Sales at Polystar, developing business with leading global and independent service providers. His proven expertise will help Emblasoft’s growth, as we focus on establishing our leadership with the next generation of independent test solutions for the industry.

Ulf Lindstaf

Ulf Lindstaf

Head of Operations

Ulf Lindstaf

Head of Operations

Ulf Lindstaf is Head of Operations for Emblasoft.

Ulf joined Emblasoft from PureLoad Software, where he has previously been CEO. He has a long career in telecoms performance management, working with leaders such as Ericsson, Aastra and others. His deep expertise in test programmes ensures close alignment with customer and partner needs.

Göran Mannerstråle

Michael Rohdin

Product Manager

Michael Rohdin

Product Manager, Evolver

Michael Rohdin is the Product Manager of Evolver.

Michael Rohdin is an experienced telecoms professional with deep expertise in product development. Since 1998 Michael has been involved in the development of network product and service verification software for Internet service providers, mobile operators and vendors in telecoms and enterprise segments.

Göran Mannerstråle

Göran Mannerstråle

Head of Odin product unit

Göran Mannerstråle

Head of Odin product unit

Göran Mannerstråle is Head of the product unit and Sales representative for Odin.

Göran has over 25 years’ experience in the IT and telecommunications industry. He has held several top executive positions in companies like Vodafone, Gateway Computers and Carphone Warehouse. Göran is responsible for the success of Emblasoft’s IMS platform, Odin.

Mikaela Grill

Mikaela Grill

Head of Marketing

Mikaela Grill

Head of Marketing

Mikaela Grill is the Head of Marketing of Emblasoft, leading all go-to-market activities and programmes, across all solution areas.

Mikaela holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from Stockholm University and has 5 years of experience in the telecom industry, gained from her former position as Technical Writer at Polystar, where she was responsible for the creation of product documentation.

Johan Ledin

Product Marketing Manager

Johan Ledin

Product Marketing Manager

Johan Ledin is Product Marketing Manager for Emblasoft. Previously, Johan was CEO for Electryon, and holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

With 20 years in product management for telecom testing, working with multiple Tier 1 operators and network equipment manufacturers, Johan has deep expertise in understanding customer needs. He helps them to create and implement effective test programmes, achieving quality, validation, and assurance goals.

Evolver Product Overview

Functional testing, performance testing and active monitoring for mobile networks

Explore Solutions

A single comprehensive platform

Multiple solutions with centralised control

Evolver provides the flexibility to assure network deployments, updates and live services.
Cloud-native and with full automation capabilities, rich reporting and an easy-to-use interface, it ensures the delivery of differentiated services for any network.

  • Active monitoring for QoS-driven, differentiated services

    Why active monitoring is essential for the continuous assurance of differentiated services

    Distributed, active monitoring agents generate real traffic and KPIs, for continuous validation and assurance.

    Assure differentiated and specific scenarios for key customers and services, with real-time awareness of service issues.

  • Functional testing for network and service evolution

    Why it’s the key to efficient, continuous service delivery and development

    Functional testing can be performed to validate features and updates, and to support CI/CD schedules.

    Flexibility allows any scenario to be modelled for proving service capabilities in multi-vendor networks.

  • Performance Testing to ensure your network services scale

    Ensure quality and experience is maintained under extreme traffic load

    Ensure services can scale in cloud environments and with load from real user agents, modelling real performance.

    Evolver scales to emulate service growth, under network conditions, with dynamic capabilities for any scenario.

  • Service enablement for rapid time to market

    Cost-effectively transition to IMS and VoLTE / VoWiFi from the cloud or your data centre

    Virtualised, cloud-native IMS, VoLTE and VoWiFi service enablement with ODIN - hosted or on-premise.

    Get to market fast, with pay-as-you-grow models and swift deployment cycles. Proven and scalable.