Mentimeter is welcoming new CEO Oscar Mo to the team. Oscar will start his appointment on May 1^st.

We have been following Oscar for many years and he’s been a successful and appreciated leader in several organizations, some of them connected to one of Mentimeter’s biggest user base; Universities.

Oscar latest assignment was for Kinnevik owned newspaper Metro and he’s also on the board of the Student Union at the Royal Institute of Technology.

So, what does Oscar think? Let’s ask him some questions:

How does it feel to be Mentimeter’s first CEO?

- It feels great, I’ve been following Mentimeter at a distance for quite a while and I’m happy to now become a part of the team of people that I admire. I’m looking forward to taking all the efforts of the team; past, current as well as future, to more users around the world.

What will you contribute to Mentimeter?

- I’ve had experience leading organizations where we accomplished a lot through devoted work and innovative thinking. I want to build Mentimeter into the successful company that it deserves to be, and that means bringing more brilliant people on board and lifting the service to new heights. Mentimeter can bring value to so many situations in business and teaching and this is a journey that I want to be a part of.

What is Mentimeter’s biggest challenge right now?

- We have a great service but the real value is brought to our users when applied in innovative and disruptive ways. We need to display success stories and make it easy for our users to be successful.

Welcome Oscar, happy to have you on board!

/The Mentimeter Team

Last week Kristoffer, Johnny and I participated in a Swedish startup competition called PitchMeUp. It has a new concept developed by Gunnar Årneby with focus on quick startup pitches – something I really enjoyed and think we’ll see more of in the future.

The idea was pretty simple:

1. Each person got 2 minutes to pitch to the audience (both live in the room and in an video stream online)
2. The jury (Three well-renowned Swedish VCs) asked one tough question each and the participant got to answer
3. The audience (both live and online) got to vote for 60 seconds on something called  Approval rating (with a Yes or No)

A fun thing for us was that Mentimeter was such an integral part of the competition, being used for all voting during the event. The winner of the event was selected using only the votes of the audience and the jury could only influence by their choice of questions.

As I said in the beginning I think more event will take on this approach in the near future – quick pitches and wisdom of the audience – we can already see a trend in Stockholm.

What do you think? Are there any drawbacks? Comment below or send me a tweet.