Executive Profile

Lennart Hjord

General Manager and Vice President

Lennart Hjord is General Manager and Vice President of the Grass Valley Group, responsible for operations and the Core Product Line. The privately held digital broadcast and video equipment company focuses squarely on helping broadcasters and video professionals make a successful transition to digital content production and distribution, and to take advantage of the video opportunities presented by increasing digital bandwidth.

Prior to the Grass Valley Group, Hjord served as President and CEO of Cygnet Storage Solutions, a privately held Silicon Valley based company focusing on providing integrated storage solutions built on RAID and optical storage in a SAN (Storage Area Network) environment.

Hjord brings more than 25 years of international and domestic general management experience working for large and small Information Technology companies. He has an extensive background in sales, marketing, product line management, services, engineering, and manufacturing.

A native of Sweden, he started his career with IBM in roles of increasing responsibility in manufacturing, marketing, and sales. He was the General Manager of Digital Equipment's European Technology Center before moving to the U.S. Prior to his role as President and CEO of Cygnet Storage Solutions, he held senior management positions at Oracle and Quantum.

Hjord holds a Masters of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His career has brought him extensive international exposure providing multilingual skills in English, French, German and Swedish.