Jens Nylander

Jens Nylander
Nationality Swedish
Occupation Business executive
Years active 2003 to present

Jens Nylander is a Swedish businessperson. He is the founder of the companies Jens of Sweden, Jays, and Automile.

Early life

Nylander was born and raised in Sweden. He taught himself computer programming as a child.[1]

Career

Nylander founded the company Jens of Sweden in 2003,[2] which made portable media players. The company went bankrupt in 2005[3] and was taken over by Swiss company JOS.[4] In 2006 Nylander founded his second company, Jays (stylized as JAYS), which manufactured headphones. The devices were first produced in 2007.[5] In 2014 the company partnered with Microsoft to distribute headphones in the US market, and the company is listed on the Nasdaq OMX.[2] Nylander later founded Automile in 2014, a company producing a connected car platform.[2] The platform can record digital data from the car, such as speed or location, and update it to a central platform for use in fleet management.[6][7] Nylander is the president and CEO of the company, based in Palo Alto.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Adversity helped shape the self-reliant mindset of Automile's Jens Nylander - Silicon Valley Business Journal".
  2. 1 2 3 "Jens Nylander, Swedish Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of Automile, has Succeeded Through Failure - ArcticStartup".
  3. ↑ "Jens of Sweden i konkurs".
  4. ↑ "Jens of Sweden files for bankruptcy…then moves to Switzerland".
  5. ↑ "Jens Nylander is back with Jays".
  6. ↑ "Jens Nylander vill koppla upp världens bilar".
  7. ↑ "Nordic companies drive the future of the smartcar industry".
  8. ↑ AB, Lundell och Aronsson Media. "Jens Nylander accelererar i USA: "En bättre start än någonsin"".

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