Morten Olsen Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, DK

Below is a high-level overview of the positions I have held - the number of positions is due to Merger & Acquisition activity rather than attrition:) My trademark is versatility and adaptability gained from working in multiple start-ups, in mid-size companies with Private Equity ownership and in listed enterprises that have acquired the starts-ups.In the.

Skovlunde, Capital Region Of Denmark, DK

I had continued doing consultancy work for Progressive after I left my former position. Progressive offered me a full-time position with a split role of supporting our CEO and Chairman of the Board.Initially I was participated in the tenders for Danish Fiscal Authority ("Finanstilsynet") and later a very substantial tender for Poul Schmidth.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Greener Pastures is one of Denmark leading app development agencies and was founded by 3 enterprising guys in my network in 2011.The company was very succesfull but the founders felt it was time for change of strategy and/or ownership. I participated in those discussions and established a data room for due diligence and I participated in the later.

Skovlunde, Capital Region Of Denmark, DK

Tim Wolf Jacobsen whom I worked for when he was the CEO of Experian Northern Europe had become the CEO of Progressive and convinced me to join as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).Progressive provided software development, hosting (private cloud), consulting and help desk services to customers which matched rather nicely with my breadth of experience as I had.

HighJump (owned by Battery Ventures) acquired Evenex providing new business cards but work continued according to our long-term plan.We had decided to pursue an ISO 9001 certification with a clear focus on business value and a Quality Management System was established in the collaboration and documentation platform that I had previously introduced. The ISO.

Two of my employees from Wapportal (Søren Lund & Jakob Mikkelsen) had founded TimeLog in 2001 and asked me to join the board in 2006.It can require a delicate touch to be the sole non-equity board member among owner-managers and an investor.Nevertheless everybody made it work and TimeLog quadrupled during the period. More importantly the business model.

Russell Reynolds Associates headhunted me for the Global Director of R&D position, but after a few months the CEO asked me to become the CIO and VP.Evenex was originally called DanNet which was created as a joint venture between IBM and a Danish telco. Evenex was a leading provider of EDI (B2Bi) services, so I expected a fossilized but robust set-up..

Costa Mesa, CA, US

Experian asked me manage the software development team in addition to my EA duties.Our PMO had developed a very comprehensive ‘Full Project Life Cycle’ (FPLC) methodology to ensure sound business cases and consistent follow up of the projects with appropriate approval gates.The problem was that it had needlessly resulted in a waterfall development process..

Costa Mesa, CA, US

Experian acquired NeoZone (see below) and the CIO asked me to move into this position.Experian Northern Europe was head quartered in Denmark and had subsidiaries in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Naturally there was a big variety of technologies and solutions and Experian wanted to re-platform and establish processes, guidelines and enterprise.

DK

Johnny Bauer, Rene Madsen and I co-founded the company and recruited an additional three team members (Lasse Kaiser, Bjarke Mortensen and Michael Nexø) who had worked for me previously.We believed the geographical element was missing in typical business intelligence solutions and by missing or underutilizing that dimension resulted in loss of useful.

Provo, UT, US

Novell acquired SilverStream Software and along with that came the usual alignment of roles & responsibilities, products and plans.Novell was widely known for its Netware products but also had a very successful business with (now NetIQ) Identity Manager.SilverStream’s product suite was built on the homegrown J2EE application server that several companies.

SilverStream acquired the Wapportal because we had based our solution on their J2EE Application server. Our mobile transcoding technology and LDAP based provisioning module would be useful in SilverStream's interaction server called ‘Director’.A small anecdote is that we before the sale had our final management presentation in Boston during a December snow.

After the sale of United Consultants to Corebit/Icon Medialab Johnny Bauer and I were pondering a new venture to be part of the frenzied DOT.COM wave rather than just being a technology provider.We believed the next big wave would be mobility and made a business plan for a mobile portal. We were inspired by the success of ‘i-mode’ in Japan that I had.

Abraxas International was a carve-out of activities from Abraxas and a prime example of what you gain from observing users and applying technology to solve their problems.I had expanded the business from generic IT to the prepress industry because it was more interesting and profitable. The first offering was an OPI solution to minimize traffic of.

Johnny Bauer, René Madsen and I founded the company because we wanted to create a high-end consultancy that would attract and deploy the best consultants across borders. We were nearly 50 consultants (50/50 employees and ‘captive’ free-lance) with offices in 6 countries when the company was acquired by Corebit in June 1999.We initially focused on.

An international group of investors had founded Euro Plus to develop the next generation hotel TV i.e. the movie rental and interactive services. Benny Mieritz who arguably was ‘The grand old man of Hotel TV in Europe’ had been in the Board of Directors of Abraxas and he recommended me to the investors. My task was to advise on the internet and core.

The company was co-founded with my cousin Mads Olsen by incorporating our ‘I/S’ (partnership). We started with pragmatic solutions such as a project management system for The Danish Navy.We had different backgrounds but were twin souls driven by solving challenges. Abraxas successfully undertook several ‘no cure, no pay’ assignments that others had given.

The company was co-founded with Jan Langevad with the intention of developing what we called CAX (Computer Aided Exchange) to support phone operators an integrating with the PABX.I had met Jan at the FORTH (the RPN programming Language) Interest Group. We lived close to each other and got on well which lead to a discussion of opportunities.Jan had a.

This was the first of four companies that Johnny Bauer, René Madsen and I have co-founded. Broadly speaking Johnny has focused on external activities, Rene did software development and I have been the aligning business, products and technology.Johnny and I met at the Building Defects Fund where Abraxas was doing system analysis and implementation. A few.