Bjorn Thordsen Joins Altia to Support Growing European Demand for Embedded GUIs in Automotive, Medical, Consumer and Industrial Products
Altia, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Senior Regional Business Manager for Central Europe, Bjorn Thordsen.
As Altia’s Senior Business Manager for Central Europe, Bjorn Thordsen has joined Altia’s European sales team to provide needed support the company’s growing customer base across Europe. He will work with companies like Bosch, BMW and Siemens to realize their model-based embedded GUI design goals using Altia’s industry-standard suite of user interface development software. Mr. Thordsen will coordinate with Altia’s global team of engineers, artists and user experience professionals to provide best-in-class GUI development software and consulting services.
Stephan Häfele, Managing Director of Altia Services GmbH, comments, “Companies are getting incredible HMIs into production with Altia—and our market growth across Europe has been swift and substantial. Bjorn is an outstanding addition to our team. With his vast experience in the embedded space, he is perfectly suited to support our customers’ success.”
About Altia
Altia is a software company that provides graphical user interface design and development tools that can be used from concept to final production code. Our GUI editor, Altia Design, offers development teams the capability to implement a model-based development process enabling clear team communication and accelerated user interface development. Our code generator, Altia DeepScreen, supports a vast range of low- to high-powered processors from a variety of industry-leading silicon providers. Altia generates pure C source code that is optimized to take full advantage of hardware resources. Graphics code generated by Altia is driving millions of displays worldwide – from automotive instrument clusters, HUDs and radios to thermostats, washing machines and medical devices.
Our mission is to get the best automotive, medical and consumer interfaces into production in the shortest time on the lowest cost hardware.
Altia was founded in 1991. Its customers include automotive OEMs and Tier 1s like Continental Automotive, Denso, Stellantis, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Renault, Valeo, Visteon and more—plus leading consumer device manufacturers like Electrolux, Whirlpool, Medtronic, NordicTrack and many others.
For more information about Altia, visit www.altia.com or email [email protected].