Spin-off from Spotify, founded in Stockholm, Sweden 2013 and relocated to Bay Area 2015. Raised $8.2M in series Seed and series AMore than 100,000 signups and customers > 1600 active customers include Spotify, Facebook, Square, Zappier, Klarna, Netflix, Volvo and Intuit.Deliver user research platform for teams to understand and enhance the user experience research of online services and applications in-depth, remotely, and at scale.Customers ranges from smaller start-ups to large enterprises. Excellent for research, measure and enhance the user interface for both web and mobile apps.

San Francisco-based software/SaaS company in the identity space. Raised $8M in seed funding. Building the identity layer for Web3, with products that securely manage human, IoT, and machine identity. Based on open source standards, IndyKite's identity platform leverages machine learning and data graphs to deliver identity workflow automation, context-aware authorization, and dynamic policy decisions. IndyKite's products are designed to empower developers with flexible APIs and a growing open-source ecosystem. .

Bioinformatic Sequencing SaaS platform. Seed funded, based in Bay Area. Granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation. >100 scientific articles documenting the software published by renown institutions like CDC, Mayo Clinic, ARUP and Karolinska.Sequence-based analysis for hospitals and medical laboratories to reduces the time needed to identify infectious pathogens, in pure- or poly-microbial samples, by up to 90% - and provides answers where other methods fail. Sequencing technology agnostic. Combined with Ripseq DB, this is complete SaaS diagnostic solution, able to identify pathogens more accurately, faster and at lower cost than current methods.customers worldwide.

IoT SaaS and device platform located in Bay Area, Seed-funded. Acquired by Resideo. Deliver smart home water device that attaches to your water line and sends real-time data to an app that categorizes your water use, alerts you to leaks, and lets you shut off water remotely.

Electric skateboard for the last mile. Bay Area located, appeared on Shark-tank and received deal. Closed $8M in Series A.Later closed down and sold IP.Manufacturer of high-performance lightweight transportation solutions and expanding the e-transportation market and making it fun for people to commute within the city. The ‘world’s first electric skateboard with motors inside the wheels.’ The board boasts a top speed of 24 mph. and comes with in-wheel motors, integrated LED lights, and regenerative braking.

Bay Area based Account Based Content Platform. Founded in 2014, raised $3.3M seed funding in 2015 and $7,4M in 2016. Later raised 2 x Series A total of $24,3M in 2019 and 2021Empower marketing and supercharge sales with auto-personalized content boards, smart sales alerts and content analytics. Funded by NEA, Cervin Ventures and TriplePoint Capital. Managing financial operations including monthly consolidated financials between US and Israel, investor reports, annual audits, financial forecasting and budgeting as well as organizing HR/payroll and tax and compliance.

VP Finance and finance operations at Escalon Services. Managing full financial operation for Bay Area tech-startups. From founding through Fundraising, M&A and sustainability. Process and system implementation for finance and HR, budgeting, board presentations and pitch deck. Managing accounting, invoicing, collecting, payments, compliance, cash, equity, analytics and FP&A.

Silicon-Valley-based technology company developing smart sensing solutions for real-time 3D mapping and object detection, tracking, and classification. Raised ~$6M in seed funding in 2013 and 2014, and $40 Million in Series A in 2014 and $90M in Series B in August 2016 with Unicorn valuation. Later raised a total of $175.3M in funding over 9 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Feb 9, 2022 from a Post-IPO Equity round.Key markets include passenger vehicles, corporate / commercial / municipal fleets, and digital mapping fleets. Named One of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Automotive Feb 2016, Named to Top 10 List of Automotive Startups for 2015. Partners includes: Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Nissan and Sensata Technologies. Investors includes: Wardenclyffe Partners LLC (Tesla Founders), Sensata Technologies, Samsung Ventures, Delphi, Rising Tide Fund, Motus Ventures, TEEC Angel Fund. Managing financial operations including monthly financials, investor reports, audits, as well as organizing tax and compliance. Managing financial operations expansion to Canada, Germany, China, Japan and UK.

Data Intelligence Platform. Founded in Bay Area, subsidiary in Vietnam. Raised $13M from lead Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Bloomberg BETA and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Empower Business and data-science users across the enterprise to collaborate and drive high-quality decisions, via Arimo’s market-leading unified interface. Learn from past behavior. Predict future actions. Drive superior business outcomes. Managing financial operations including monthly consolidated financials, international finance, key metrics, AP, AR as well as organizing tax and compliance.

Smarter Authentication SaaS platform. Founded in 2006 in Norway, Raised $8,3M in Funding, acquired by AllClear ID in June 2016. Later acquired by Signicat in 2021. Designed to increase usage and adoption of banking services by offering frictionless and uniform access to all channels. HQ in Norway, subsidiary in US.

Contract Management Platform. Investors: Viking Venture. Managing financial operations, including monthly financials, audits, Due Diligence, financial forecasting and budgeting as well as organizing HR/payroll and tax and compliance.

Cupp Copputing: Mobile Security Device (MSE) to help IT bring order to the enterprise BYOD landscape. Responsibility: Managing financial operations for the subsidiary in US.Including monthly financials, financial forecasting and budgeting, as well as organizing HR/payroll and tax and compliance.

- Business modeling, projections- funding- business strategy and development- Grant writing, business plans, internationalization plans, sales strategy, prizing.Isentio deliver the only method that can analyze difficult bacterial samples, and it’s easily available for all laboratories all over the world as an online software as a service. The customer can continue using their existing sequencing equipment. The advanced algorithm is patented protected and been recognized in the world’s leading scientific journals and conferences worldwide. Isentio have customers in reference laboratories in 12 countries, e.g. Mayo Clinic, ARUP laboratories, Stanford Hospitals and clinics, Quest Diagnostics Corp, Karolinska.www.isentio.com

Consultant for early-stage tech companies.4 years Part-time contract with Nyskapingsparken incubator▪ Strategy and business modeling ▪ Business development (primary start-up companies)▪ Finance, funding, grant writing▪ Internationalization and international relations (primary US marked)▪ Management, organization and H & R developmentHeld several lectures about finance, business development, entrepreneurship and internationalization

Project manager for the Norwegian delegation at Nordic Build 2012 in San Francisco on behalf of Innovation Norway. Nordic Built is a Nordic initiative to accelerate the development of sustainable building concepts. The Nordic Built program combines key Nordic strengths, provides attractive and effective arenas for collaboration and realizes concrete projects that demonstrate world-class scalable solutions. responsible for the program and attracting well-renowned companies such as Snøhetta, Jotul, Multiconsult, Entra, COWI and Norwegian Green Building Council.

Project manager for Inunet learning excursion to Silicon Valley on behalf of Innovasjon Norge. Inunet is a collaboration between all the incubators, technology transfer and start-up ecosystems in West Norway. The goal for the program was to learn and adopt some of the key start-up environments ecosystem drivers from Silicon Valley. The Inunet program, was about one week filled with visits, work-shops and learnings from Bay Area/Silicon Valley.

Managing Director for department of Cemeteries, and part of the top management team in Bergen church council with direct board report responsibilities. Manage 26 cemeteries, 70 employees and a turnover of approx. 5 mill USD as well as yearly investments in new cemeteries, restoration and extensions of old cemeteries, implementing new IT systems and more. Strategic-, operations- and financial planning of the cemetery sector in the city council. Focus on new business development, marketing, sales and developing international exchange of best practice. Held several lectures about management and finance at national- and international events and conferences.www.akasia.no/

Landscape architect and Project management for new cemeteries, restoration project of old cemeteries. Strategic planning of the development of cemeteries in the city.