Responsible for the Innovation department at Simula Research Laboratory and our incubator Gründergarasjen.

As Innovation Manager at Simula Research Laboratory I am helping startups grow in the Simula Garage (Gründergarasjen), an incubator managed by Simula spread across two different sites in Oslo, in which I am mainly responsible for further developing Gründergarasjen@OsloMet.The Simula Garage is a free place to work on your ideas for 12 months, with the purpose to provide a working and breathing space for technology entrepreneurs who want to turn ideas into successful businesses.Read more here: https://grundergarasjen.no

Responsible for entrepreneurship at CERN:- Helped startups and people with business ideas on a weekly basis. Many of these have incorporated and reached milestones due to the help they received, such as funding, integration of CERN technology, incubation, etc.- Developed the first version of the 5-week long CERN Entrepreneurship Student Programme in 2018 from early concept to successful implementation, and secured funding for a further developed version in 2019. Got 100 applications for 15 spots in 2019.- Responsible for the 10th CERN-NTNU Screening Week, a week-long programme where students do market assessment on CERN tech. - Organised over 20 meet-ups for the Entrepreneurship community at CERN, where experts have been invited to share their knowledge about subjects related to entrepreneurship. In 2018, 24 people averagely participated to a meet up.- Organised the first SICTIC Investor Day at CERN, where 8 startups pitched to experienced angel investors. Two of these were startups using CERN tech.- On the organising team for the first MedTech:Hack at CERN in 2018. - Built relations in the local entrepreneurship ecosystem, making sure CERN startups can benefit from offerings and creating awareness of how we work with entrepreneurship at CERN.- Worked closely with other groups at CERN, such as CERN IdeaSquare for entrepreneurship related programmes and CERN & Society for fundraising to the CERN Entrepreneurship Student Programme.- Supervisor of two full-time students in entrepreneurship since February 2019, expanding the entrepreneurship team from one to three.

Working with communication and marketing in the Knowledge Transfer group at CERN:- Led parts of the KT website re-launch (kt.cern), and was also project leader for the development of medipix.web.cern.ch. - Editor for a 19 week long social media cards-campaign, and editor of the KT digital newsletter. Website increased traffic by 25% from the social media cards. - Admin on CERN's LinkedIn and analytics tools, posting across social media, creating performance reports and doing analytics for the content shared from KT.- Wrote a fair amount of articles, many of them related to entrepreneurship. Two of them are linked to below:

Spark* is a free advisory service that helps students commercialize their business ideas. As an entrepreneurial advisor I give guidance to students with business ideas on how to get their products or services to the market.

Climathon brings together the challenges of the world’s cities with the people who have the passion and ability to solve them; all within 24 hours. Climathon Trondheim 2016 was a cooperation between Trondheim Municipality, NTNU and Technoport. Through the Climathon movement, we engaged students, scientists, entrepreneurs and citizens from different backgrounds to co-design innovative and future-oriented solutions and business cases for reduction of CO2-emissions from traffic in Trondheim. We had about 40 people joining the challenge, spread over 7 groups working on different solutions. 13 nationalities were represented, and the winning team "Toll trolls" consisted of 4 different nationalities. The challenge was highly successful!I worked as coordinator of the challenge, representing NTNU. I had responsibility for recruitment and marketing, in addition to communication.

ClimateLaunchpad is the worlds largest cleantech business idea competition. It is arranged by the EU funded organization Climate-KIC, and 30 countries participate across Europe. In Norway the competition is hosted by NTNU. 12 finalists are selected to join an intensive business boot camp and get mentoring before the national final June 15th. The three winners Salcape, Waveco and Podbike got tickets to the international final in Tallinn 7.-8. October 2016. Salcape and Waveco got to the semifinals, and Salcape won the category 'Carbon Negative'.I worked as coordinator of the competition in Norway - Communicating with the finalists and making sure everything happens smoothly.

Climate-KIC’s The Journey is the world’s largest climate innovation summer school. It brings together students and young professionals from all over the world. Over the course of 10 weeks, students take part in five-week long courses offering a unique combination of academic study and real-world business experience with the aim of creating the climate change leaders of tomorrow. Within these five weeks, the students visit three different European locations and team up to create compelling cleantech business plans offering solutions to real-world climate related issues.As Journey Manager for Norway I was overall responsible for the two weeks in Trondheim during one of the journeys. It was the first time The Journey has been hosted in Norway. Thus, the position included developing and planning the whole program both academically, socially and practically - in addition to carrying out the project and being responsible for the 40 students during their stay.

Start Norway is a student organization, which through voluntary work promote innovation and entrepreneurship among students in Norway. We operate on all universities in the country, and many colleges, with a total of 19 local branches. Start Norway was established in 2002 and has a total of 420 active members. Common to our members is that we are highly involved and really passionate about what we do.As member of the board I develop strategies, give advice, and make sure that the organization is developing in a proper way.

Kickpay is revolutionizing how businesses improve cashflow. They do so with the help of data, APIs, financial technology and great product design. Kickpay's product is a marketplace for invoices, where businesses sell their account receivables to accredited investors for a small fee.I worked at the Y'Combinator-backed start-up Kickpay as a business development intern. In addition to being able to take part in strategy discussions, I had responsibility for building up sales processes: Getting new leads into the funnel, managing the pipeline of potential customers, and building up sales campaigns to reach out to them. As well I kept track of customer payments and new invoices coming in.

Start UiT is a non profit organization working for student entrepreneurship. A part of Start Norge, the largest entrepreneurship organization for students in Norway. Start UiT hosts events like Venture Cup, Start Lounge and Lederjakten.As the leader of Start UiT I have the overall responsibility for the operation of the organization. This means ensuring that the rest of the board, our members and Start Norge are given updates regularly. Furthermore, I have the responsibility to exercise our organizations shared goals and vision to the media, businesses in Tromsø and the students at The University of Tromsø. I have to develop strategies, routines and potential improvements for the organization in cooperation with the board, as well as attending meetings with partners and cooperating organizations.

"Lederjakten 2013" is an annual competition with the purpose to reveal great leadership talents at the University of Tromsø. The competition is arranged by the student organization Start UiT, and conducted in cooperation with several well-known companies in Tromsø. Forty participants are being evaluated by these companies while solving different cases - both practical and theoretical, group wise and individual and written and oral. The final decision is taken at the evening over good food, entertainment and drinks. The four best participants of the day are supposed to answer challenging questions, formulated by a known leadership talent, concerning leadership. Finally, one of these will be honored with the title "The greatest leadership talent at the University of Tromsø. "Lederjakten 2013" was a great success, and the winner of the competition was Christian Haakstad Nordlund. The participating companies were DNB, Manpower, Remiks and Norinnova, in addition to the Lab of Design thinking and Start UiT.As project leader I had the overall responsibility for Lederjakten 2013 - which I developed, planned and carried out together with the project group.

Through this position I made marketing plans and carried these out. The main focus of this period was to promote the local final (Tromsø) of Venture Cup 2013. Venture Cup is a national business plan competition arranged by Start Norge.

G-sport is a Norwegian sport equipment chain, which is part of the Gresvig Group. I worked as a seller of sport equipment - Bike equipment, skiing equipment, soccer equipment, sport clothing etc. Through this job i have been highly focused on customer service, and to give every customer a tailored service and the best experience.