August Grønli Email & Phone Number

Oslo, NO

San Francisco, California, US

I am responsible for overseeing all business operations, driving growth strategies, and ensuring profitability in Norway and Spain. The role combines strategic leadership, market development, and operational management to achieve our goals.

San Francisco, California, US

• I led strategic initiatives to expand the company’s presence across Northern Europe and Spain, delivering sustained growth and strengthening the company’s position in these key markets. My role encompassed leading.
• Team Expansion: Successfully recruited and onboarded three local Business Development professionals in Norway, the UK, and Spain, creating a robust and regionally focused team.
• Strategic Market Planning: Designed and implemented tailored strategic plans for each market, incorporating local insights and competitive analysis to optimize opportunities.
• Execution Support: Provided hands-on guidance and mentorship to local Business Development teams, ensuring effective execution of strategies and alignment with overall business goals.
• Revenue Growth: Led initiatives that resulted in significant revenue increases across multiple regions, leveraging local market expertise to secure high-value partnerships.
• Partnership Development: Fostered and maintained strategic alliances with key stakeholders and partners, enhancing the company’s market positioning and long-term growth prospects.

San Francisco, California, US

• Driving revenue growth, forging strategic partnerships, and uncovering new market opportunities to expand platform capabilities and profitability.
• Supply Optimization: Led initiatives to professionalize the supply side of the platform, successfully attracting fleet owners with dedicated vehicles across Norway.
• Operational Streamlining: Implemented solutions to enhance fleet operations, including parking, insurance, cleaning, and customer service, ensuring efficiency and scalability.
• Insurance Oversight: Managed the insurance contract and claims performance, driving efforts to minimize risk while boosting profitability through strategic risk management initiatives.
• Demand Generation: Identified and activated new sources of demand to increase vehicle occupancy rates, with a particular focus on growing business demand.
• Contract Negotiation: Negotiated and formalized agreements with key partners, including insurance providers, parking companies, and municipalities, fostering mutually beneficial partnerships.

• Focus on building a more robust customer service and claims handling team. And further develop the self service car sharing experience through installing keyless technology in cars.
• Managing the customers service and claims function with full time and part time employees. Responsible for KPIs; response time, resolution time and customer satisfaction.
• Initiator of the keyless technology project, aiming to improve user friendliness with self-service cars. This involved researching and finding the best hardware and install partners, creating a lead generator and sales.
• Active in recruiting Nabobil users to invest in a crowdfunding round in 2018 resulting in a 4 MNOK investment.

• Managing a team of several part time employees; recruiting, planning, reporting and training.
• Customer service and claims handling for car owners and renters.
• Gather feedback from users and share internally. Used to improve user experience (web and app)
• Working closely with the insurance provider to set up routines for claims handling and information flow.
• Implementing new tools and services to simplify and streamline the customer service function.

Oslo, Select, NO

• Avamera was a car sharing platform for people to rent out or rent cars from other users. The platform was launched in Q1 2016 with a comprehensive insurance provided by Tryg.
• Developing business plan, setting up legal entity, accounting, customer service, etc.
• Follow-up who were engaged to program the platform (web). The project required over 9,000 hours of planning, programming and testing across the involved stake holders.
• Responsible for marketing activities, social media presence and creating marketing materials.
• Integrate tools and services to increase efficiency and quality of operating activities.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Working closely with the SMB segment in the Nordics and assisting these clients in developing their advertising and marketing strategies. Using Google's advertising and analysis tools together with the client I helped.
• Creating advertising campaings for and with the clients
• Analyzing the client's competitive situation in order to best position their products or services
• Allocating the client's budget across the different Google advertising channels (AdWords, Shopping, YouTube)
• Discover new high potential clients and make sure these were assigned to account managers.
• Educate clients through bi-weekly newsletters and educational videos posted on YouTube.

Oslo, Oslo, NO