I help businesses and owners create long-term value through pursuing M&A transactions and leveraging new business opportunities. My focus lies within the technology industry and industries which depend on technology, e.g. digital and analytics are embedded into core processes. I enjoy working with numbers and thrive in the intersection of finance, strategy and technology, e.g. building financial models and designing organizations, processes and technical architecture on a high level. In 1997 I graduated with a master’s degree in Electrical engineering from the ETH Zürich in Switzerland (Dipl. El. Ing.) and completed my master’s thesis on software radios as a visiting scholar at MIT in the USA.My experience includes the following:1. Roles: M&A professional, management consultant, investor/active owner, board member, CFO and CIO/IT director.2. Industries: Software, consulting, telecommunications, banking and finance, retail and travel.3. Project focus samples * Corporate finance: M&A (sell- and buy side), raising capital, business case and valuation. * Strategy: Business plan development, growth initiatives and business model innovation. * Technology: Digitalization, analytics, architecture (high-level), systems implementation and project management.Clients and colleagues tell me that I am analytical, hard-working and solution oriented.Outside work I am coach for junior bandy- and soccer- teams in Røa IL and serve as board member at the MIT club of Norway.
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