Allan Martinson

member of the management board

allan@mtvp.ee 
Skype: allan_martinson
Phone: +372 503 9581

Allan Martinson is the founder and managing partner of MTVP. During his career as an entrepreneur, Allan has been launching, managing and exiting several companies in the Baltic TMT sector, all of which became leaders in their respective industries.

He was the founding CEO of Baltic News Service, which quickly after launch in 1990 became the dominant real-time news organization in the region. In 1998 Martinson joined MicroLink, the leading PC maker in the Baltics, and re-launched it as a fast-growing and diversified technology group, backed by four rounds of equity investments. As the CEO of MicroLink, Martinson orchestrated an aggressive M&A campaign to create the leading IT services and data communications group in all three of the Baltic countries. MicroLink was also the parent of SAF Tehnika – the fastest-growing developer of microwave radiolinks for the global mobile telecom industry.

Martinson served or is serving as a member of the supervisory board of MicroLink, SAF Tehnika, Baltic News Service, Tallinn Stock Exchange, the leading Estonian media company Ekspress Grupp, the IT company Regio, Estonian ICT association and Estonian Academy of Arts. He was nominated for the Businessman of the Year in 2000 and got the Best Decision Award in 2004 for successfully executing the strategy of MicroLink.