Kjetil J. Olsen Email & Phone Number

Oslo, No

Oslo Area, Norway

At Rentelligent we aim to make tenancies successful. Our amazing team builds and operates the two leading tenancy administration platforms Husleie.no and SmartMiete, in Norway and Germany respectively.

Oslo, Norway

Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway

Disrupting the way admin work is handled in SMEs.

Sandefjord, Norway

Oslo Area, Norway

Kikora is a unique e-learning tool for mathematics which is integrated with the Learning Management System (LMS) of your choice. Kikora currently contains a library of more than 25 000 math exercises and more than 60 million exercises has been solved to date.

Oslo Area, Norway

Documaster is a system agnostic platform that enables all organisations to compliantly process, preserve and instantly access their most valuable data from one single application

Oslo Area, Norway

Norselab is a 100 people strong startup studio headquartered in Oslo, Norway. We have an overarching passion for building meaningful tech companies that create real value and challenge status quo in industries and markets in need of change.Our hard working, best-of-breed team consists of tech talents, creative minds, growth hackers, business architects and entrepreneurs with battle scars. This gives us the confidence to set ambitious goals - and the ability to achieve them.So far our efforts have led to six internally-built startups and shareholdings in several aspiring ventures across six countries.

Oslo Area, Norway

Company’s first hire outside US. First commissioned to build European presence, but role was soon expanded to include RoW. • Built and managed a team of country managers, marketers and customer growth resources in Europe, Australia and Asia• Hired and worked closely with PR agencies in 10+ markets • Developed mobilization program counting >60 community managers on all continents that helped us increase awareness and drive acquisition and success of new users • Developed and executed market ignition and growth programs included but not limited to UK, DACH, Nordics, Singapore, Israel, Netherlands, Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Philippines, Bangladesh• Company spokesperson in international markets, with large number of media coverage in Financial Times, Forbes, The Age, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Computerwoche, DN.no• Public speaking at large international events, incl., CeBIT, IT-Jam, Echelon, Heureka, Arctic15• Worked with influential organizations such as World Bank, Intracen and European Commission • Initiated and led product development initiatives for international markets, including global VAT solution

As the world's leading platform for online employment, Elance helps businesses hire and manage in the cloud. For businesses looking to staff-up a team on an hourly or project basis, Elance offers instant access to qualified professionals who work online and provides the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results.

Oslo Area, Norway

CatalystOne Solutions offers a complete, user-friendly and process-oriented software suite for Talent and Performance Management.

Düsseldorf Area, Germany

After Axel Springer’s acquisition of StepStone I was commissioned to develop the company’s M&A and new business strategy. I traveled the world to identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities within and outside the current business model of StepStone.Founded in 1996, StepStone is one of the most successful online job board businesses in Europe today. StepStone, including TotalJobs in the United Kingdom, operates some of the strongest online job portals with over 24.6 million visits and more than 90,000 jobs per month.

Düsseldorf Area, Germany

Following the successful re-launch of StepStone’s operations in Norway I was appointed to head up the company’s business development efforts, including strategic product development initiatives such as mobile and employer branding services and an integrated ATS offering to the company's SME customers. Furthermore, I looked after the company’s subsidiaries in Denmark, Italy and Norway and worked on new market strategies, M&A initiatives, restructuring/turn-arounds and special projects.

Oslo Area, Norway

In charge of both StepStone Online (now part of Axel Springer) and StepStone Solutions (now Lumesse) in the Norwegian market. Grew the Norwegian operations from 12 to 55 people and increased sales with 500% in three years.

Oslo Area, Norway

Penetrace enables a higher return on your marketing budget. We deliver tools that ensures maximum effect of each Euro/Dollar you spend on marketing campaigns. Discovering good, great and poor performance has never been easier. With Penetrace, our clients always view their performance with a relevant benchmark. Some say it is a way of introducing a business focus in marketing. Others think it's the ultimate tool for a systematic improving campaign and brand performance. Penetrace is build by six advertisers that needed to improve their marketing effectiveness and efficiency. Five years later, over 100 brands are monitored in multiple countries.

Oslo Area, Norway

In charge of both StepStone Online (now part of Axel Springer) and StepStone Solutions (now Lumesse) in the Norwegian market, in addition to heading up the roll-out of EasyCruit to new markets. Grew the Norwegian operations from 12 to 55 people and increased sales with 500% in three years.

Oslo Area, Norway

Start-up incubator owned by Norwegian School of Management (Handelshøyskolen BI) and Avantor ASA. I was part of the founding team in 2000, and had various involvements (board member, managing director and consultant) until 2008. This role was a part-time consultant role.

Oslo Area, Norway

EasyCruit, a spin-off of deltidsjobb.no which I also founded, was launched as an e-recruitment software in March 2003. EasyCruit gained quickly international market success due to its simplicity combined with advanced features supported by a world-class customer service team. Leading companies like Statoil, Tandberg (now Cisco), TeliaSonera, SAS and Norwegian Air Shuttle are just a few examples of the clients of EasyCruit. When selling EasyCruit to StepStone (now Lumesse) in 2004 about 150 medium and large companies in Scandinavia were using it to manage their talent acquisition processes. The success of EasyCruit continued also under the ownership of StepStone (Lumesse) and is now being used by hundreds, if not thousands, of companies throughout Europe.

Oslo Area, Norway

I founded the part-time job board deltidsjobb in 1999 during my studies in Oslo, Norway. deltidsjobb.no, when launched in June 2001, was the first and only job board for part-time and seasonal workers in Scandinavia. Immediately after launch it became a highly popular and recognized service for students and other part-time workers. All large businesses in Norway with a high and constant demand for part-time and seasonal workers were clients of deltidsjobb.nodeltidsjobb.no was, along with its sister company EasyCruit, acquired by StepStone in November 2004.

Master In Business & Economics

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