Management Team

Dave Williamson - CEO 

Dave has been in the software technology industry since the early 1980s, working both with small software product startups and large public corporations. He began his career in developing complex, mission-critical systems for the air-traffic control, defence and aerospace sectors. Subsequently, he moved to sales and executive positions with the innovative and industry-leading software methodology and tools vendors ObjecTime, Rational Software and Borland Software. Immediately prior to joining Ivar Jacobson International, Dave managed international sales teams in the Internet and data communications domain. He is based in Ottawa, Canada and holds a degree in Computer Science and Statistics from Queen’s University.

Ivar Jacobson - Founder, Chairman and CTO 

Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, aspect-oriented software development, modern business engineering, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process. He has contributed to modern business modeling and aspect-oriented software development. Lately, he has been working on a smarter way to deal with methods and tools in a super-light and agile way. He has developed a practice concept that is now being adopted by both developers and tool vendors. Right now he is working with a team of software leaders with the mission to build a widely-adopted, strong foundation under software engineering, tentatively called Methods Need Theory.  

He is also the principal author of six influential and best-selling books. 

Ivar Jacobson is the chairman of Ivar Jacobson International which has subsidiaries in the US, UK, China, Singapore, Australia, Sweden and Canada.

Rick Morrow - CFO 

Rick has spent more than 25 years working in various finance roles with publicly traded, high technology, international companies. He started his career in public accounting then moved to industry where he worked with a large defence company. Rick later took a position at GSI Group (then Lumonics) where, following a merger of Lumonics and General Scanning, he became Controller of the company’s largest business unit. From there, he moved to JDS Uniphase where he spent more than seven years—mostly as Director of a major business unit. He has also worked as an independent consultant. He is a Certified General Accountant based in Ottawa.

Pernilla has 15 years of experience in sales and executive management from both the IT industry as well as the industrial industry. She began her career as a sales engineer within the materials testing domain and then moved into the IT industry as a senior project manager. Subsequently she moved to a role as Director of Business Development as part of the strategic management group within a large system integrator. In 2000 Pernilla joined a software product company owned by Ivar Jacobson as the Global VP of Sales and Marketing. Since the company was acquired by Ivar Jacobson International in 2007, she has held executive positions within the company. Pernilla is based in Stockholm, Sweden and holds a Masters in Science from the Royal Institute of Science in Stockholm.

Agneta Jacobson - Managing Director, Technology

Agneta co-founded and was the CEO of Jaczone from April 2000 to May 2007, at which point the company was acquired by Ivar Jacobson International. Previously, Agneta held various roles at Rational Software including those of Director of Process Development, Process Engineer and Key Account Manager for the Nordic region. Agneta is a worldwide speaker at software development seminars and conferences and co-author of the book The Object Advantage: Business Process Engineering with Object Technology by ACM. Agneta has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Linköping in Sweden. She has been developing solutions for software development for 20 years.

Sion Roberts - Vice President, Global Operations

Sion’s career in the Software Applications business spans 20 years, during which time he has worked in a number of roles including application development, consulting, sales / marketing and senior leadership. In his role as European Managing Director, Sion is responsible for the growth and profitability of the region’s services business and contributes to the company’s strategy as part of it’s global leadership team.  Prior to joining Ivar Jacobson International, Sion ran the EMEA Industry Consulting function for EDS, an HP company where he was responsible for all aspects of applications growth and consulting for a number of commercial sectors.  Before EDS, Sion held a number of senior roles at Fujitsu, 7-24 Solutions and Post Software International.