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Lars Olof Känngård, born in Stockholm on the eight (8) day of October in the year 1956. This website www.lars.ae or as it is right now www.Lars.Kanngard.com is the official reference web site of Lars Olof Känngård. Here you can read and follow links to an amazing 38 + year in the front of new markets as they where born. You can also visit www.Kanngard.com to find outher links to other websites within the Känngård family activities. If you like to find out about companies or concepts, which Lars Olof has either innovated or being part of, created and being brought out to the market, you can visit the McGordons Web Portal at www.mcgordons.com . Do you want to get any new information about the latest project and concept, the e-lysium system and concept, which gave the inspiration to create ViA - Virtual Instant Access and its group of companies, you can either visit the UAE based website for e-lysium at www.e-lysium.ae or you can also visit any of the market concepts, card concepts and card programs developed and in some cases innovated by Lars Olof Känngård. Some of these concepts are PAY.ae, Instant.ae, i-cash.ae, e-card.ae, hawala.ae and many more, welcome to any of these web sites and feel free to submit any questions or contact us, just follow this link for details. The ViA concept and its new revolotionary introduction of a new global security standard which will prevent both credit, debit and stored value or multi purpose stored value card financial crimes as well as the STS - Secure Transaction String innovation will prevent future identity Frauds. Lars Olof Känngård (Kanngard) have been involved and worked with planning and implementing electronic systems, routines and developed Business Concept Innovations, since early 70’s. A number of these spearheaded creations, are today known as e-business, e-commerce or as Lars Olof Kanngard put it him self 1999 in a speech; "- The computer industry has joined the entrepreneurs and finally understood that earnings derives from applications in the new @-age". "Where others see a problem, Lars sees a new business. When others says, “that’s not possible, Lars will find a solution. When others don’t believe that others can achieve, Lars will give them the chance. The true values in life are not bills and coins, it is what you have shared and achieved for others." states Lars Olof on his upcoming 50th birthday, marking 37 years of entrepreneurship. Mr. Kanngard made his first, registered, innovation already before reaching the age of 15, the SAFETY LOK SYSTEM a radio frequency mirror, embedded in a price tag in the supermarket the innovation would notify the staff of a shoplifting attempt and another version for banks and money transportations, where the same device, but larger would be part of the money-band (wrapped around the bank bills) and via a monitor system a bank robbery can be tracked block by block as he moves or drive a car. To have something in his hand and convert it to amore usable form started even earlier, at the age of three, when Lars Olof started to sell used bottle caps to neighbors and could by him self buy a toy or a candy. Background and Experience Lars Olof Kanngard's formal education is "just" the basic school up to the 9 degree, and from that age he has been working hard in the high school of the life and graduated as a self made entrepreneur. Lars Olof Kanngard has innovated, developed and implemented the first real public outsource Governmental public service. This took place in Stockholm Sweden 1987/88 when the Försäkringskassan (Government Department Social Security) for the social security system in Sweden.
In early 80th Lars Olof and his IT team in Huddinge, who at that time where established in Flemingsberg, in a suburb to Stockholm, they came to write history when they first open the first FREE and public eMail and e-conference system COMPUTEXT as a BBS Service. Shortly thereafter Lars Olof came to meet Sir Dennis Finnigan and his brother Paul Finnigan from Santa Clara, USA. Pau Finnigan was the innovator to Voicemail and also the owner of the US trademark and brand Voicemai. Here to the right, a historical picture, with Paul Finnigan in the middle, Lars Olof Kanngard to the Right and Gary Brandt to the left. At the inauguration of the first public service for Voicemail in Northern Europe and Scandinavia. During 1998 the large Swedish Office supply and system colomorate ESSELTE AB decided to buy up a group of companies, which Mr. Kanngard had established around a non profit foundation IFF - Institutet För Framtiden (The Institute For the Future). Mr. Kanngard was appointed to the General manager for ESSELTE VOICE AB. As the General Manager and President for ESSELTE VOICE, a division within ESSELTE AB, Mr. Kanngard developed Voice services and systems. ESSELTE VOICE became the largest system producer in Europe at that time and made with its innovations big landmarks and created industry de facto standards. Mr. Kanngard was also during this time involved in the creation of controlling bodies for premium rate services as well as consumers rights. Made the strategic plans for AT&T and ESSELTE to build up Fulfillment Centers across Europe 1990.
Mr. Kanngard and his team of key-manager has during these years 1984 to 1998 started up several larger Fulfillment Centers, Call Centers and companies in the parsley-populated regions which has handled complete transactions and functions for the customers, such as order, customer support, telemarketing, as well as market research and public surveys and public polls. All the work and system solutions have in most cases been based on DEC Digital Equipment. All the public Voicemail, Audiotex and Voice Response centers was between the years of early 80 up to 1989 fully built on Pdp1184 and VAX. Mr. Kanngard and he's team, was given the exclusive rights 1985 to bring down the "large" PDP based VOICEMAIL system and function structure to PC level systems. Paul Finnigan, the original inventor and patent holder of Voicemail gave us large trust and we where very successful in our implementation. The key team consisted from start, with Mats Engström (Engstrom), Allan Varco and Per Melin, to mention a few. Mr. Kanngard has also built up, back-office facilities and fulfillment centers including SMART system & software solutions, educational program for staff who should from remote centers handle research within the field of consumers’ media behavior on a daily basis. Lars Olof Kanngard has innovated and later being responsible for building from scratch (1994) a complete business plan to become the first Pan-European Telecom-operator—today known as Telitel,but created as TeliTel AB. The experiences has involved all the steps from developing new systems platforms, integrate telephony with back-office and operator software, with integration to Internet. As a pioneer in the field of public services, Mr. Kanngard and his team of young software engineers, in the early 1983 was one of the firsts who launched a public "E-Mail", email system (CompuText) based on what, at such time was called; BBS systems, in Scandinavia, maybe in the world? This was the first public E-mail and BBS Service, FREE of charge and outside a campus - CompuText, with both e-mail and electronic conference system (Chatting) functions as well as a free-text search engine. Later sponsored by Digital Equipment Sweden, who donated a VAX-computer (Vax 730), which at such time was a gigantic gift and gave the team new energy to make further spearhead developments. Lars Olof Kanngard also started up, the first public service bureau for VOICEMAIL 1986 in Scandinavia. See historical picture of Paul Finnigan, Lars Kanngard and Garry Brandt, taken in Huddinge where the first public Voicemail Service Center was built back in 1986 and 1987. Lars Olof Kanngard is also one of the co-founder to the very well reputed Association for the Voice and Messaging industry in the world - VMA - Voice Mail Association in Europe. The first world-conference was held and arranged by Mr. Kanngard in Stockholm, Huddinge. In the years of 1989-1992 launched the 900 and 800-services with Audiotex Voice Response Services in 9 European countries. Mr. Kanngard's strength is to be able to see things in a larger perspective and how to integrate things, without reinventing the wheel again, and how things can be brought together from isolated pieces into a homogeneous solution and how to build bridges between those areas.

Professional Experience in more details Read Mr. Kanngard's (Känngård) Curriculum Vitae and all about his background and wide experiences. Contact Lars Olof Kanngard - Känngård Do you want to reach Lars Olof Kanngard, send an e-mail this is a e-mail secured for Spam. Or you can find all the contact details under McGordons web portal. We recommend that you choice the link to McGordons E-Portal and from there click on Company, if you have entered this page via a direct link from Internet or a search engine, the top of the page (frame) would than not be seen at this time. If you see the buttons on top and the logo of McGordons, than you can select the direct link, just for your convenience and best viewing's performances of this web site. Bullerbo Do you want to visit our Village Project in Sweden, Bullerbo, in Graninge, with remains from the Ice Age which now been transformed into the IT-Age and the @-Age. Go to Bullerbo. OneWeb McGordons Ltd:s subsidiary in Sweden, Bullerbo AB has operated its own IT department "OneWeb" a small but globally acting Webhotell. From 2004 the IT- department OneWeb is a division within McGordons LLC in Dubai. We do also develop special software and special solutions for our customers. Do you want to get more information, please visit the homepage of OneWeb. Dubai - Lars why did you move to Dubai? A new web page, with some background and explinations, just click here.
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