Hjalmar Winbladh

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Hjalmar Winbladh^[1] is a serial entrepreneur from Sweden. Today he is CEO of Rebtel, which he co-founded in early 2006. His previous venture was Sendit AB, which pioneered mobile Internet services via mobile operators in 1994. He and his co-founder, Jonas Lindroth took Sendit public in Sweden in 1997. Sendit was acquired in 1999 for $150 million by Microsoft where Hjalmar served as general manager of Microsoft’s Mobile Internet Business Unit until 2001.

In May 2006 Hjalmar Winbladh co-founded Rebtel with Jonas Lindroth. Rebtel offers its users the chance to make incredibly low cost (or even free) international mobile-to-mobile or mobile-to-landline calls.

In March 2007 Rebtel received the Red Herring 100 Europe Award^[2].

In August 2007 Rebtel launched their Facebook application called Let's Talk^[3].

In January 2008 Rebtel launched their second Facebook application, Group Talk. Group Talk lets users set up free international conference calls that can include both Facebook and non-Facebook users^[4].

(1) http://www.rebtel.com/en/Footer-link-pages/About-us/Management-Team/Hjalmar-Winbladh/
(2) http://forum.rebtel.com/wordpress/2007/03/22/rebtel-is-a-red-herring-100-europe-winner/
(3) http://www.rebtel.com/upload/global/media/The%20Rebtel%20Story%20edit%201.pdf
(4) http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20080116/rebtel-voip-international-calling-cheap-calling.htm