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Tromso Area, Norway

Handcrafted furniture from the north of Norway. @ektefurniture on Instagram. We created hundreds of furniture pieces sold across the globe from Singapore (Sands Marina, flex!) in the east via Switzerland and all the way up to Spitsbergen in the north. We even built a floating sauna!We had an amazing time over 6 years making beautiful furniture, growing the team and our business organicly as we progressed. Personally it was exciting to learn the new craft of making physical product, by hand, it gave a great perspective on product development and creation as a whole. The relationship between software and game development to furniture design and building may seem like worlds apart, but I was continually surprised about the overlap of skills and mindset. Having worked in global scale software startups with an international audience it was a good learning experience to run a traditional small local, and unscalable, company with regional customers, much like most of the smaller businesses we are surrounded by every day in our cities and communities.

Tromsø

Together with two other co-founders we created a coworking space for startups in northern Norway. Our ultimate goal was to increase the success ratio of startups in our region by providing a naturally flowing ecosystem of startup companies that can learn from each other and have better chances of succeeding in the marketplace.After many years of operations we are housing over 50 companies across industries and stages in their life cycle. Mixing established companies with startups has created a vibrant and tight knit community that helps the companies and individuals grow and achieve their goals.

Tromsø, Troms, Norway

Served as board member for two years. A great learning experience to understand more of a publicly listed banking and financial organisation in a constantly evolving landscape of consumer and corporate services

Tromsø

Joubel empowers content creators to easily create, share and reuse interactive across platforms through their open source cloud based service H5P.The company has grown to over 100 million users and established itself as a leading company in content creation tools for the elearning space globally. Joubel was acquired by Canadian D2L in 2024.

Tromsø, Norway

Our mission was to improve the lives of children with special needs through individually tailored, fun, engaging and easy-to-use mobile & tablet applicationsMillions of children around the world struggle on a daily basis with the effects of a development disability, be it from Autism or other diagnoses. We wanted to help these children live a fuller life by giving them mobile and tablet apps that will allow them to develop, build confidence and master their everyday challenges.Our products catered for the child's needs in 3 main areas; Communication, Social Interaction and Cognition. We failed to achieve market adoption for our products and subsequently shut down our operations in 2019. A great deal was learnt both individually and as a team, much of which has been brought with us into our new projects and ventures.

Tromsø

Tromsø International Film Festival is a popular film festival for our audience, and at the same time an important meeting point for Norwegian and international film industry. TIFF 2017 will be the 27th edition of the festival.The festival has had an incredible growth since it first commenced in 1991. The total of admissions in 1991 was 5200 - in 2016 it was 60726. This makes TIFF Norway's biggest film festival.

I was chosen to serve on the board for a two year period. Innovation Norway is the Norwegian Government's most important instrument for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry. Innovation Norway supports companies in developing their competitive advantage and to enhance innovation.

The position was part of a 2 year governmental initiative related to development of the creative industries in Norway. The goal of the advisory board is to provide the Norwegian ministry of finance and the ministry of culture input on how to strengthen commercial growth from the Norwegian cultural and creative industries. The advisory board consists of representatives from a variety of industries such as gaming, design, music and film.

Tromso Area, Norway

The position was a 1 year project. As part of the ongoing "Professor II (VRI)" initiative from the Arctic University in Norway to bridge the gap between the academic and business communities I was engaged at the Computer Science faculty to help inspire both more entrepreneurship and game development focus.Together with representatives from the local game industry and faculty members I put together the all new entrepreneurial focused Tromsø Game Lab course where computer science students develop and launch their own mobile games. A mix of product development, business creation and computer science.This is a cross disciplinary course where students follow a series of practical milestones with deliverables across game design, business modeling, marketing and technical design/implementation.The course is measured by the final launched game in the app store, the source code, an academic report and oral exam. In addition the students optionally take part in a live pitching competition where they pitch their ideas to an audience and are awarded prizes.In the first iteration of the Game Lab there were 15 students that successfully completed the course.

Tokyo, Japan

The goal of the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group (CG) was to accelerate the adoption of the Mobile Web as a compelling platform for the development of modern mobile web applications.

Tokyo, Japan

Built 40 person internal development studio in Tokyo and launched our first game as a top 10 mobile game on the GREE social network in Japan.- FIFA World Class Soccer 2 (EA/GREE)This position was a continuation of our Playfish journey as we were acquired by Electronic Arts. After nearly 6 years in the company working across multiple continents I moved back to Norway.

Worldwide

Founding employee, VP of Global Studios and GM Mobile:Built out product development teams across Playfish worldwide studios (Tromsø, London, Beijing, San Francisco and Montreal) producing 13+ social games on Facebook and Smartphone platforms with over 300 Million users worldwide to date. Successful exit to Electronic Arts at $380M after 2 years of operation.VP Global Studios:- Pet Society (Original IP)- Restaurant City (Original IP)- Crazy Planets (Original IP)- Hotel City (Original IP)- My Empire (Original IP)- Country Story (Original IP)- Bowling Buddies (Original IP)- Poker Rivals (Original IP)- Gangster City (Original IP)- Minigolf Party (Original IP)- Quiztastic (Original IP)- FIFA Superstars (EA)

IPO'ed on NASDAQ (GLUU) at $327M After 5 years of growth.CTO, Asia Pacific (Beijing): Built 50 person team from ground up and run complete production and post-production for mobile game development in Beijing, ChinaExecutive Producer/Head Of Studio UK: 30+ published mobile games. Original and 3rd party IP, both internal and external development teams.Game Programmer: 15+ published mobile and online gamesGameDesigner: 15+ published mobile gamesServer-Side developer: Sole developer J2EE multiplayer architecture for mobile gamingExecutive Producer/Head Of Studio:- Alpha Wing (Original IP)- Ancient Empires (Original IP)- Fatal Force (Original IP)- Stranded (Original IP)- Brain Genius (Original IP)- Project Gotham Racing (Microsoft)- Sonic The Hedgehog (SEGA)- Virtua Fighter (SEGA)- Super Monkey Ball (SEGA)- Sega Rally (SEGA)- Virtua Tennis (SEGA)- Lemmings (Ocean)- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (Celador)- Manchester United Soccer (MUFC)- Tom & Jerry (Cartoon Network)- Samurai Jack (Cartoon Network)- Flintstones (Cartoon Network)- Scooby Doo (Cartoon Network)- Speedball II (Bitmap Brothers)- Chaos Engine (Bitmap Brothers)- DiRT (Codemasters)- Aleste (Square Enix)- Actraiser (Square Enix)- Cluedo (Hasbro)- Monopoly (Hasbro)- Adidas All Star Football (Adidas)+ Many more

Company previously operated under following names: Getronics, Cinet, ArkWeb:- Web Developer (20+ commercial websites)- Web Designer (10+ commercial websites)Network/IT:- Designed and deployed global network architecture for norwegian seafood export council in 6 international locations. (Beijing, Boston, Madrid, Rio, Hamburg, Tromso). Replicated Lotus Domino server infrastructure through Checkpoint VPN