Norwegian. Married. Dad for 3 kids.
Two decades of working with sustainable, green technology, solutions, organisations and companies. Cofounder, CEO, Chairman and Board member.
Speaker/presentations about Startups, Innovation, Space business/Astronomy, Artificial Intelligence
While working with green solutions for our home planet Earth, my other passion is Space tech, astronomy and cosmology. Humans are happy explorers living on a grain of dust in the outer rim of the Milky Way.
Non-commercial board positions
2021 ->
Norway Advisory for Increased Export
to the Minister of Trade.
2012 ->
Leder av Stavanger Næringsforening gruppe: Grønn Vekst
2012 ->
Mars Institute : LINK
Other space related board positions per 2024:
Nåva Space , Norwegian Space Cluster, Tekna Space
2017 -> 2023
Kolumbus in Rogaland. One of Europe's most innovative mobility company.
LINK
2022--> Cofounder and CEO Spectrum Blue AS
2017-2022 CEO of Heimdall Power AS
2017-2019 Cofounder, CEO and Chairman of Desert Control AS. 2019 -2023 Board member.
2012-2017 Cofounder and CEO of Zaptec AS
2010-2012 Strategy Director at International Research Institute of Stavanger
2007-2009 Equinor (Statoil) : Head of New Technology
2002-2007 Equinor (Statoil) : Head of Hydrogen
1996-2002 Equinor (Statoil) : Internal consultant/project manager
2023 : International Space University; Executive Course, Strasbourg (France)
2022 : Singularity University, Silicon Valley (USA)
2006 : Technology Management, NTNU / NHH
1996 : Master of Science, NTNU
And several workshops and seminars at IMD (Lausanne), Stanford and MIT.
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