Experience

Variable

• India
• Mobile Gaming Apps
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & CEO

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Oslo, Norway



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• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Angel Investor

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  Portfolio: Nurx (YC W16), No Isolation, Sanity.io, Teston (exit), Waved, Polarworks, Masterchannel, Fjorden, Breyta. One of the first investors in the first fundraising round of all of these companies. They went on to raise additional $100M+ follow on VC funding collectively since my investments were made.



Techstars

• Ireland
• Think Tanks

• Entrepreneur In Residence

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

  Oslo Area, Norway Mentoring startups as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Techstars Energy 2019 accelerator program.



Just

• Georgia
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• VP Product

  • May 2017 - May 2019

  Oslo Area, Norway Enterprise (B2B) financial technology startup set out to introduce transparency and fairness to the global corporate foreign exchange (FX) market.



SIC

• Portugal
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Line Director / Software Architect

  • Mar 2015 - May 2017

  Oslo Area, Norway - Led the company's digital health / consumer medical device product line, focusing on commercialization and new product innovation efforts (product & UX research, market research, medical research, advanced engineering, rapid prototyping). - Published 2 patents (US10022293B2, WO2017015767A1) for novel consumer medical devices - Managed post acquisition transition and setting up the company’s Norway office



Loop Health (acquired in 2015)

• Co-founder / CEO

  • Feb 2014 - Feb 2015

  Oslo Area, Norway - Founded, launched and exited Loop Health, a consumer medical device startup based on extensive medical, market and user research, created to provide a better solution for women suffering from SUI and other common pelvic floor disorders - Led product innovation, business strategy, fundraising, market research, medical research, UX research and customer discovery/validation efforts - Original inventor of the company’s flagship consumer medical device (US patent: US10022293B2) -… Show more - Founded, launched and exited Loop Health, a consumer medical device startup based on extensive medical, market and user research, created to provide a better solution for women suffering from SUI and other common pelvic floor disorders - Led product innovation, business strategy, fundraising, market research, medical research, UX research and customer discovery/validation efforts - Original inventor of the company’s flagship consumer medical device (US patent: US10022293B2) - Bootstrapped a hardware startup from start to exit within 1 year - Exited the company in 2015 to SIC (consumer health company based in Ottawa, Canada) Show less



Silicon Labs

• Australia
• Software Development

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

  Oslo Area, Norway - Energy Micro got acquired by Silicon Labs in 2013 - Continued leading the Bluetooth Low Energy software development efforts - Collaborated with the company’s low power wireless business unit in Boston, United States and supported cross-site knowledge sharing - Transferred my responsibilities to the Boston site over a period of 3 months to prepare the company for my exit - After the successful handover, I left to start my own startup



Energy Micro AS

• Norway
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2010 - Jul 2013

  Oslo Area, Norway - I was employee #30 and one of the first software engineer hires of the high-growth Norwegian semiconductor startup, Energy Micro (exited to Silicon Labs in 2013) - I was tapped for my special expertise in low power wireless embedded systems to work on the company’s “holy grail” product, EFR — “the world’s most Energy Friendly Radio”, an ultra low-power, multi-frequency, multi-protocol radio chip supporting Zigbee, W-MBUS and Bluetooth LE among others - Led the development of the… Show more - I was employee #30 and one of the first software engineer hires of the high-growth Norwegian semiconductor startup, Energy Micro (exited to Silicon Labs in 2013) - I was tapped for my special expertise in low power wireless embedded systems to work on the company’s “holy grail” product, EFR — “the world’s most Energy Friendly Radio”, an ultra low-power, multi-frequency, multi-protocol radio chip supporting Zigbee, W-MBUS and Bluetooth LE among others - Led the development of the company’s Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) stack as sole developer on the Controller (Physical Layer and Link Layer) part of the protocol stack based on the Bluetooth 4.0 standard specification - Worked together with 3rd party Bluetooth LE Host stack providers - Drove the early internal foundational requirements and convinced the newly appointed PM to shift the concept of EFR from a simple, OTP modem to a comprehensive SoC with an ARM Cortex-M3 CPU core, rich set of peripherals and ample amount of Flash/RAM - Worked on various projects and applications for the EFM32 family of microcontrollers - Contributed to feature definition efforts as “in-house customer” to the IC design team - Contributed to pre-tape-out validation on FPGA prototypes and post-tape-in validation on early chip samples - Gained in-depth knowledge in startup leadership and management from one of Norway’s most successful serial entrepreneurs in tech (Geir Førre, our founder and CEO) via his radically accessible, transparent and low-hierarchy management style - Gained knowledge in cross-cultural management and communication; I moved countries for this job and our team was highly diverse and international - Initiated, introduced and implemented the concept of the company wide monthly hacking day (Hack-Gecko Day) which created a tangible ROI as it spawned many successful application notes, reference designs and product ideas Show less



Knorr-Bremse

• Hong Kong
• Non-profit Organizations

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2010

  Budapest, Hungary - Led platform software development efforts as the lead embedded software developer responsible for developing the safety critical, automotive embedded software (firmware) platform of the company’s PBS (Pneumatic Booster System) product - Developed system logic and low level drivers for sensors and actuators adhering to safety critical, automotive software engineering standards (MISRA, CMMI, etc), as well as rigorous internal processes and coding guidelines - Configured and maintained… Show more - Led platform software development efforts as the lead embedded software developer responsible for developing the safety critical, automotive embedded software (firmware) platform of the company’s PBS (Pneumatic Booster System) product - Developed system logic and low level drivers for sensors and actuators adhering to safety critical, automotive software engineering standards (MISRA, CMMI, etc), as well as rigorous internal processes and coding guidelines - Configured and maintained principal software platform components such as the RTOS, the CAN communication module, diagnostics and various sensor/actuator monitoring and safety management components - Participated in internal quality control and risk management efforts such as FMEA - Worked closely with algorithm developers and system engineers to implement and test the functional logic of the PBS product — It was a thrilling experience working on the pneumatic engine booster that utilizes the high pressure air tanks used for the breaks to boost the engine before the turbo kicks in. We had a strict development process with coding guidelines, automatic source code generation, static code analysis, test and verification procedures, but the team was creative, scrappy and I got to drive a bus with the booster, it was a lot of fun! Show less



Budapest University of Technology and Economics

• Hungary
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant Internship

  • Jun 2006 - May 2008

  Budapest, Hungary - Participated in a research project on IoT / wireless sensor networks as part time research assistant - Contributed with embedded software and hardware development for wireless sensor networks (programming, schematic and PCB layout design, prototyping) - Contributed with representing the research group at various events with demos and presentations - Carried out 3 award winning standalone student research projects (received the 2nd prize three times at the BME EE Scientific Students… Show more - Participated in a research project on IoT / wireless sensor networks as part time research assistant - Contributed with embedded software and hardware development for wireless sensor networks (programming, schematic and PCB layout design, prototyping) - Contributed with representing the research group at various events with demos and presentations - Carried out 3 award winning standalone student research projects (received the 2nd prize three times at the BME EE Scientific Students Association (2006 (1x), 2008 (2x)) Show less