Kanan AS is a Norwegian software reseller. We have expertise in Adobe, Red Hat, Puppet, Morpheus +, and help our customers identify optimal license solutions. (Always available, long experience from the SW industry, reduced Adobe cost for some customers with more than 1 MNOK, .. Running a DN Gaselle company = Topp 2% of all Norwegian companies.)

Red Hat is in the exact same position as Adobe was when I started in Atea, so now I am excited to see if history will repeat. RedHat is the 23th most innovative company in the world in 2017. (25th in 2016) The first Open Source company, which has passed $2 billion in revenue. And the company now has the last year increased number of employees from 8 to more than 12,000, and has behind 64 consecutive quarters of growth. Now I have to make sure that Atea takes part in this yearly 26% revenue increase for years to come.Focusing on solutions like OpenShift / DevOps / PaaS, OpenStack, Hyper-converged Storage, JBoss middleware, RHEL Linux, Satellite, Ansible, 3scale and lots of other OpenSource solutions that is “changing the world». From 2016 to 2017 we have doubled the Red Hat business in Atea.

In charge of increasing Atea´s market share for Adobe licenses from number 4 to a market leader position in Norway, tripled the number of Adobe customers. Transformed the Adobe license sale at Atea from perpetual to Cloud-based subscriptions for the Creative Adobe Software. This demands a complete overhaul of the customers agreement structure. In April 2015, the same transition started with the Acrobat products and licenses. And we got the award - ADOBE EMEA PARTNER OF THE YEAR 2015. 2016 is rounded, and it is time to put an end to the Adobe journey for this time with a little flashback. It has been an exciting journey, with a total restructuring of the entire license business from traditional "perpetual licenses" in 2012 and to selling only Cloud-based software subscriptions in 2016. The period concluded with a turnover which is 3x as high as the year before I started in Atea, with an result enhanced 7 times. So I am very pleased with both the business transformation and the overall development for the vendor. Adobe has climbed from the 13 most important software partner to number 4 in 2016.

Inmeta Licensing AS - Increased Adobe marketshare from 0% to 61%. Responsible for sales and marketing of volume license products from the largest SW vendors: Adobe, Symantec, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Corel, Clue, MindJet, AutoCAD, IBM & Trend. Also worked with/as CRM, ERP, Web, Product Manager, P&M manager, Key Account Manager, SAM, License Advisor.

IT-Manager, Vendor manager, ICT-Manager - Contract negotiations, IT management, Project management. Negotiated HW&SW agreements for Orkla and Carlsberg with more than 36 000 emplyees.

Software development, Database management, Database administration, 4GL, Oracle DBA, C. Developed x.25 communication solution, eMail system off-shore, and economy system for the shipping industry.