Jalbum, the leading community for personalized photo sharing, announced that its board of directors has named Andreas Sjölund the new Chief Executive Officer of Jalbum and closed a second round of investment with Nordic Venture Partners.

A serial entrepreneur, Sjölund brings with him 12 years of experience in creating and developing consumer Internet companies. Most notably, Andreas was a co-creator and the first product manager of Skype and one of the first employees in KaZaA - two of the world's most notorious and fastest growing Internet ventures to date. Jalbum founder David Ekholm will stay actively involved with the company as CTO and will remain on its board of directors.

"We are very excited to welcome Andreas Sjölund as the new CEO of Jalbum," said Ekholm. "In addition to his stellar track record of entrepreneurial leadership with KaZaA and Skype, Andreas shares our passion for creating the best photo sharing solutions for our growing community."

"I am ecstatic...