AFF  Yngre Ledere, Solstrand

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

London School of Economics and Political Science

Founder and CEO at Otovo  -  We're hiring ☀️

Norway

Otovo is the easiest way to get solar panels on your roof. We are a marketplace organizing a network of local, high quality energy installers that we have vetted thoroughly. We use technology to analyse the potential of your home and advise you precisely about the ideal project. Present in Scandinavia, France, and Spain, we have sold and completed thousands of solar energy projects. We are aiming at becoming the European number one in residential solar.

Otovo

Founder and CEO

PatientSky

Board Member

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Norsk Tipping is Norway's Government mandated gambling monopoly. With more than 400 employees, Norsk Tipping provides 5 billion kroner in profits every year which are passed on to good causes within sports and community activities in Norway.

Norsk Tipping

The Norwegian Parliament's advisory council for technology matters.

Teknologirådet - The Norwegian Board of Technology

Member of the board of Norway's leading business news and quality journalism publisher. Dagens Næringsliv publishes the <a href="http://www.dn.no">www.dn.no</a> news site, the DN daily newspaper and the D2 magazine, as well as several lifestyle sites.

Dagens Næringsliv

Headed product management for Opera's browsers, with more than 350 million users all over the world.
Managing a versatile global team of product managers and specialists that create some of the most awesome products on the web and in app stores. During 2015 alone, we built new products with a total reach of 50 million users.

Opera Software

SVP Products

FINN.no – mulighetenes marked

2012-2014:
-  CEO at Bergens Tidende, publishing the Bergens Tidende newspaper, the bt.no site and ten local newspapers, with approximately 400 employees and an annual turnover of ~1bn NOK.
-  Member of group management in Schibsted Norge
-  Restructured the company, notably through a 150M NOK cost and profitability programme and re-org, and boosted online revenues.
-  Leading the consumer sales unit on group level, consisting of online payment, pricing and customer acquisition initiatives across Schibsted Norge, with ~2,5bn NOK in annual sales.
-  Board member at several Schibsted boards (Spid, Advanced data analytics, Distribution division, Printing Plant division, etc)
2010-2012:
-  CFO/COO, member of group management in Media Norge, later Schibsted Norge, leading finance at a company with €1bn yearly turnover and ~2.700 employees.
-  Stakeholder relations towards majority owner Schibsted and 600 independent shareholders
-  Responsible for shared services in IT, accounting, payrolls, invoicing and finance (120+ employees)
2008-2010:
-  Director of projects responsible for group strategy and project management office. Lead more than 30 improvement and restructuring projects and oversaw two major cost reduction processes

Schibsted

CFO/COO Schibsted Norge, CEO Bergens Tidende, various roles

Lead the editorial team of Norway's largest business publication as assistant editor.

Lead the technical project to set up E24, a cooperation between newspapers VG and Aftenposten, which went on to become Norway's no.1 business web site. I later headed the tech development of the site for a year and a half.

Andreas Thorsheim