Experience

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  Axess Group

  • CEO Axess Digital Solutions

    • Jun 2024 - Present

    Responsible for our Groups Digital Solutions entities. We provide both SaaS (Axess Digital) and consultancy services (Axbit) world wide from our offices in Norway, Poland and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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  Axess Digital

  • Norway
  • Software Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • CEO Axess Digital I Group Management Axess

    • Jan 2022 - Jun 2024

    Responsible for managing Axess Digital. Special focus on upscaling the business, sales, M&A and our people. I have also a parallel role in Axess Group as a member of the management team.

  • Managing Director BiH I Director Sales

    • Oct 2021 - Dec 2021

    I was responsible for establishment of the software development company in the city of Mostar Axess Digital d.o.o., Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Managing Director for the established company Axess Digital d.o.o. In addition I have the overall responsibility for global SaaS sales as Director of Global Sales, Axess Digital AS.

  • Global Sales Manager - SaaS

    • Nov 2020 - Sep 2021

    Axess Digital is a software company owned by Axess Group. We currently deliver software solutions (SaaS) that help streamline and improve inspection and maintenance services for rig companies, oil / gas companies, offshore companies and energy companies worldwide.As Global Sales Manager I have the overall responsibility for business development, our sales cycle, contract management, CRM system, partner and reseller contracts, sales strategies and legal terms & conditions. My focus is also on day to day cooperation with our Global Key Account Management team and close cooperation with Pre-sales and Product Development teams consisting of highly skilled software developers and system architects.

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  National Oilwell Varco

  • United States
  • Oil and Gas
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager Business Processes L&H Norway

    • Sep 2019 - Sep 2020

    NOV is a multinational corporation with more than 7B USD revenue and 35 000 employees. I was responsible for development of business processes (BPMN) for the NOV`s segment Lifting & Handling Norway. This included the whole value chain but special focus was on sales, engineering and projects. I was also responsible for integration of software/IT solutions from Oracle and Siemens.

  • General Manager NOV Italy

    • Feb 2018 - Sep 2019

    I was General Manager during the acquisition of Remacut company. As General Manager I had a broad set of responsibilities but the main focus was on cross organizational collaboration, business development, sales, bidwork and developing relationships with large scale enterprises. I had responsibility for a large project portfolio and also spent time on managing IT and software people (internal and external) due to needed integration of the newly acquired company in NOV systems. In order to increase our revenues I had responsibility to find new customers, manage sales and engineering teams so that we could deliver mission critical products and take our fair share of the market.

  • Manager Product Development, Sales & Projects

    • Feb 2016 - Feb 2018

    After a large downsizing process several departments were merged. In order to satisfy company needs I had to take on several roles. My responsibility was mainly sales (B2B) and product development. In addition I had to oversee our project portfolio (>100M USD). I worked closely with large enterprise clients, built relationships to identify their needs and worked closely with company executives to identify future market needs. In addition I led several business development projects.

  • Manager Project Management

    • Mar 2014 - Feb 2016

    I was manager for project management in our technical department and I was responsible for our project portfolio. This was a large portfolio consisting of more than 30 projects in total and more than 100M USD in revenue.

  • Project Manager

    • Sep 2012 - Mar 2014

    I worked as a project manager in technical department with responsibility for 3 to 4 projects on average, each around 10m USD. I had responsibility for 10 to 15 project members, scope of work, plan and budget.

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  Christie & Opsahl AS

  • Norway
  • Construction
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Department Manager

    • Jan 2010 - Sep 2012

    I worked as departemen manager in Christie & Opsahl AS, a company with 500 employees and a revenue of approximately 50M USD. I was responsible for all activities connected with this role such as: managing direct employees, sales, bid work and project management. The board of directors had ambitious plans for growth of the department so I worked a lot with business development and strategy. I worked on creating business plan and action plan which I needed to follow up closely over the years. Later I used this project as my masters thesis at NTNU University.

  • Site Manager

    • Mar 2007 - Jan 2010

    I was working as a site manager on large projects and responsible for managing day to day site activities and workers.

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  Christie & Opsahl AS

  • Molde

  • Apprentice

    • Jul 2001 - Jul 2003
    • Molde

    After graduation I started my career as an apprentice and worked as a carpenter on several projects. After achieving my diploma I started my engineering studies at HIST.