About us

Corporate information

SMT Data is a software solutions and services company based in Denmark helping clients ensure stable operation, optimize their IT resource costs, and analyze how IT capacity costs relate to business activities. The flagship product, IT Business Intelligence (ITBI™), enables organizations to gather, enrich, understand, and optimize IT capacity and performance costs on both mainframe and midrange platforms.

ITBI creates value by promoting operational stability and reducing costs through technical optimization (tuning and rightsizing) as well as through changed business behavior (better decisions, better control).

SMT Data’s IT Business Intelligence (ITBI™) solution delivers transparency into the relationship between IT capacity costs and business activities.

Our vision:
Protecting the world
from excess
IT consumption.

The SMT Data’s Management Team

Patrizia Venturelli Christensen

co-CEO

Patrizia Venturelli Christensen joined the SMT Data management team in April 2020. Patrizia has more than 20 years of experience from executive roles within international sales and business development, marketing and general management. She holds a Ph. D. and an Executive MBA.

Mads Ehlers Rasmussen

co-CEO

Mads Ehlers Rasmussen joined the SMT Data management team in December 2020. Mads holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and Computer Science.

Tina Auerbach

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Tina Auerbach joined SMT Data in September 2022. Tina has more than 25 years of all-round expertise in financial management, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and process optimization. Her experience is mainly from multinational Professional Services Companies.

Jan Vilstrup

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Jan Vilstrup joined the SMT Data management team in 2008. With a past in Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, SiliconGraphics (SGI), Kodak and MicroAge he holds a solid experience within international Sales and Management.

Steven Thomas

Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Steven Thomas has been part of the SMT Data management team since 2011. Steven holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford and has over 40 years of technical and business experience from Saxo Bank, Fidelity Information Services, and IBM.

The SMT Data Board of Directors

Nils Kierkegaard

Chairman of the Board

Nils Kierkegaard has been part of SMT Data’s management since 2009, and is Chairman of the Board of Directors. Nils has more than 30 years of experience from executive positions within the IT industry.

Erik Westergaard

Member of the Board

Erik Westergaard is the founder and former CEO of SMT Data. Erik has more than 40 years of experienced work in the IT industry with focus on capacity planning and performance management.

Jørgen Lund

Member of the Board

Jørgen Lund is one of the co-Founders of SMT Data. Jørgen has more than 30 years from a wide variety of mainframe installations and is specialized in installation, support, and managed operations for SMT Data products.

Jan Vilstrup

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Jan Vilstrup joined the SMT Data management team in 2008. With a past in Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, SiliconGraphics (SGI), Kodak and MicroAge he holds a solid experience within international Sales and Management.