My areas of expertise include business establishment and development, investment management, organizational structure, branding and identity, mergers and acquisitions, marketing and sales. I am a committed leader with proven experience in building and reorganizing companies, and my passion is strategic business development, sales management and leadership within organizations.

I was born and raised in Asker, Norway. Completed my bachelor's degree in military studies from the Norwegian Naval Academy in 1988.

Later earned a bachelor's degree in economics and administration (1997) and a master's degree in management from BI Business School (2000). In addition, I have further education from the Norwegian Armed Forces University College, which qualifies him for higher staff service in the Armed Forces. I am also an engineer from the Tinius Olsen Vocational School in Kongsberg.

Before starting my career in business, I served in the Norwegian Armed Forces nearly 20 years, including various positions in the Coastal Artillery and the Norwegian Navy, where I gained experience at all levels in complex organizations.

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In January 2000, I began my civilian career as Marketing Director in a company focusing on maintenance / purchase / crewing / communication to the commercial fleet of the world., where I was responsible for the company's sales and marketing activities and implemented a global CRM system. In total over 50% of the floating commercial fleet used one or several software solutions from this company.

In 2002, I was positioned in Indonesia to engineer and build out the GSM network for the state owned telecom company TelComSel in Indonesia, where I was responsible for the entire Indonesian operation, including setting up new organizational structures, managing all aspects of the company and developing processes and procedures for the entire operation.
 

In 2005, I established my first energy company (Norges Småkraftverk AS), a start-up company specializing in the development of small hydropower projects in Norway. I sold my shares in 2006, and the company is now merged into Cloudberry (We provide clean renewable energy for the future generations – Cloudberry.

In 2009, I was hired as CSO at Norsk Grønnkraft AS. Here I was responsible for all sales activities - including identifying potential projects, negotiating and concluding agreements with landowners - and the development and start-up of hydropower plants across Norway. I was part of a team that grew the company to become one of the leading companies in the small hydropower market before it was sold to Aquila Capital in 2014.