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Oslo Area, Norway

• Responsible for all business development and customer engagement with government clients.
• Helping public sector clients reaching their ambitions in modernising public services through technology solutions.
• Driving growth across all business units; platform services, outsourcing, application services and business consulting.
• Part of the Scandinavian extended management team.

Oslo Area, Norway

• Leading IT services sales for all industries in Norway.
• Main focus on driving digitalisation and modernisation through transformative managed services across infrastructure and applications.
• Shaping and driving large and strategic deals together with industry verticals.
• Part of the Nordic sales leadership team for Large Deals and the Tieto Norway management team.

Oslo Area, Norway

• Leading the Norwegian IT services sales team in telecom, media, oil&gas and energy utilities.
• Main focus on driving growth through managed services and major consultancy engagements.
• Ownership and P&L management of the full portfolio.
• Part of the Nordic sales leadership team and the Tieto Norway leadership team.

Oslo Area, Norway

• Responsible for driving growth of IT services in Tieto core market segments telecom, media and energy utilities in Norway.
• Main focus on IT transformational outsourcing and major consultancy engagements.
• Management of full pursuit processes from segmentation, identification, planning, execution and delivery management.

Oslo Area, Norway

• Responsible for business development and driving growth in the Energy Utility market across Tieto's business areas in Norway.
• Customer Executive for Hafslund, Norway's largest energy utility company.
• Part of Tieto's Nordic Energy Utility Leadership Team.
• Part of Tieto Norway's Extended Management Team.

Oslo

• Overall responsibility for sales and business development to Evry, Norway’s largest IT Service Provider.
• End to end responsibility for managing significant local and international engagement teams to exceed order targets and customer satisfaction objectives.
• Main focus on transforming Evry into an HP lighthouse customer through a targeted account plan based on C-level value propositions. The implementation of a broad customer governance structure has enabled me to work.
• A main accomplishment was leading a highly complex and competitive sales campaign establishing HP as a strategic partner to Evry through a 50 MUSD contract for IT Service Management solutions and services. This left HP.

• Responsible for all project- and consultancy sales to HP customers in the public sector.
• Complex solution sales focusing on large scale projects to defined focus customers in the areas of IT infrastructure and IT Service Management and Change Management.
• The role involved identification, qualification and management of sales opportunities through complex public purchasing processes at multiple levels within the customer organisations.

• Sales and development of IT services to top tier HP business customers in Norway, reporting directly to the Services Sales Director.
• Responsible for building and executing account strategies for selling services into large Norwegian customers. Services include outsourcing, consulting, network and mobility as well as support and maintenance of IT.
• The role brought me in contact with a variety of customers including telecoms, oil&gas, bank&finance, SMB and public sector.

• Sole responsibility for two British customers, Global Crossing and Thales Translink, reporting directly to the Business Unit Director.
• Responsible for leading multi functional teams to exceed customer expectations and order intake. Main focus on solution sales of telecom equipment such as SDH/DWDM transport, IP and access products in addition to.
• Sales of transmission products to Global Crossing’s British transport network in addition to building relations to Global Crossing in the US and Europe.
• Sales of SDH and access products to Thales Translink, party to the consortium upgrading the London Underground communications network.

• Customer centric role in a matrix system, reporting directly to the Account Director.
• Marketing responsibility for three customers, two British and one American, in a high pace telecom market. Main responsibility to manage long term sales opportunities and position Marconi networking solutions towards.
• The role meant comprehensive customer contact and effective communications with resources from technical support to director level both internally and externally.

London, United Kingdom

• My first role at Marconi was a four-month internship with Energis, the London based telecom operator.
• Main responsibility for demographic analysis of the UK in terms of existing Energis customers and potential areas for future revenue generating activities. From this material, working with three colleagues, I produced.

• Six months internship with the department responsible for UK customers other than BT, reporting to the UK Sales Director. Primary responsibility to help Alcatel understand the Access Networks needs of operators.
• The Access Strategy project provided the background for my MSc dissertation: “An Investigation into the Strategy Process, Case Study: the Telecom Business”

Master Of Science In International Business

• Internationally oriented courses in economics, research methodology, marketing, organisation, and finance. • Substantial dissertation.

Bachelor Of International Business

• All courses taught in English. • Individual project in International Marketing; corporate sponsoring of sports and cultural events. •.

Examen Philosophicum

• Preliminary exam in philosophy

Diploma In Business Administration

• Courses in business administration, political economy, law and IT