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Oslo, Norway

Business Transformation advisory focusing on technology driven operational alignment of value chain and business structure

Oslo Area, Norway

A founding principle of Cervo is to be trusted advisors when our clients face challenges and opportunities of vast complexity, utmost urgency, and success is of pinnacle importance. Making the right decisions and delivering results in such processes requires hands-on execution with the crucial combination of multi-disciplined experience and industry insight. That is a Cervo partner.Selected assignments:Global healthcare company - stronghold in biotech/pharmaceuticals (manufacturing, wholesale and retail pharmacies). Design and implementation of Group Value Management function. Global Professional Services Provider. Post-merger integration and transformation program including legal, commercial, technology and org/governance model. Norwegian Professional Services Group. Full scale transformation including legal structure, organizational design, governance model, process re-engineering and IT platform upgrade. European Life and Pensions Group. Global program manager for implementing Financial Crime compliance measures towards international and national legislation, as well a internal corporate policies and instructions. Program scope snapshot includes defining corporate risk analysis, operating model, governance, management information, legal agreements, technological solutions (e.g, transaction monitoring, customer screening), internal guidelines and procedures, as well as change management. IT shared service provider within the oil- and gas industry. Developed and implemented 5 year framework agreements with top 3 largest customers, alongside implementation of new corporate strategy that included M&A, organizational restructuring, major IT transformations and commercial repositioning.Program management of life insurance company´s adaptation to regulatory changes in the occupational pension- and disability insurance laws, as well as Solvency II, AML, FATCA, CRS, USIAS.

Oslo Area, Norway

Strategy and business development Founding partner of Cervo in December 2013.

Oslo Area, Norway

Management for hire - strategic redirection, business turnaround, and M&A advisor

Senior Managing Consultant with focus on enabling telecom industry transfusion into financial services.Personal favourite client project was to head the establishment of a number of mobile banking and payments companies from scratch across eastern European countries and the Asian region. Other selected assignments: Ran Programme management office for life insurance company.Designed and coordinated a number of M&A transactions within banking, payments and shared service providers.Restructured shared services function in major telecommunication company.Full scale strategic market analysis on technology trends in the Norwegian financial industry.

Oslo

Private property investment company. Founder and majority owner.

Hallingdal, Norway

Member of bank executive management team. Headed the savings- and investment product portfolio across the bank branches. Major initiatives were to implement Mifid certification process, upgrade the financial investment product portfolio, found new strategic alliances and partnerships, and lead a number of IT development processes.

Oslo Area, Norway

Major tasks were to undertake challenging turnaround and redirection excersise of strategic focus in times of changing market regulations. New corporate structure, rebranding, management team and start-ups were established. The company enjoyed tremendous success in the aftermath of the restructuring. Subsidiaries: DPS, EBS, Max, Sansa, ID Foto and IDP

Pers AS, Pers Drift AS, Pers Management ASFamily owned hotel and leisure group bordering a record 100 MNOK yearly turnover in the last year of our management period.Responsible for finance function, property development and maintenance, and supplier/vendor relationships. One of three managers, and multifunctional as needed in such a business. In hindsight a truly valuable career experience in order to develop core operational management skills.

Oslo Area, Norway

Starting as a graduate junior analyst, management consulting provided opportunities to do a multitude of challenging and diverse projects. After the inital period projects became more focused towards the finance and insurance industry. Selected major assignments includes: Project manager in restructuring programme that aimed to commercialise the Norwegan postal sevicesProject manager for post-merger intergration programme between two Scandinavian insurance corporationsProgramme office management through merger process for a group of Scandinavian banksRestructured the corporate structure and operating model of Scandinavian retail organisation

Ma, International Management

Ba, International Management

EU university exchange programme

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