I am currently Innovation manager in Autonomous Systems at Department of Engineering Cybernetics.

Background

• Researcher. University of Bergen (1979-80)
• Researcher Norwegian Underwater Technology Centre (NUTEC)(1980-84)
• Project director, specialist, department manager. Statoil ASA (1984-98)
• Senior Vice President ICT. IGP AS. (1998-99)
• Senior Vice President ICT. Interconsult AS (1999-2001)
• Nukleus AS. Founder and CEO (2001-05)
• Senior advisor. SIVA sf. (2003-05)
• Senior advisor/Industrial Liason officer. NTNU (2005-10)
• Cofounder and CEO. Leksvik Industriell Vekst (2007
• Project director. NTNU (2010-2018)
• Cofounder and CEO. Idletechs AS (2015-16)
• Innovation manager Autonomous Systems. NTNU (2018-  )

Education

• Cand. real (M.Sc.) University of Bergen

Selected activities

• Founded and headed a new department at Statoils Research Centre in Coordination Technology in collaboration with MIT.
• Cofounded and chaired the Board of a new, crossdiciplinary initiative at NTH supported by Statoil and Telenor. Program in Applied Coordination Technology (PAKT, now called Apertura)
• Project member in NRCs project that estabished FUNN/SkatteFUNN.
• Vice Director in NOWITECH. Norwegian Research Centre on Offshore Wind Technology
• Cofounder an CEO of The Norwegian Smartgrid Centre.
• Initiator and project mananger of SPARK* NTNU. A low-treshold support organization for students that want to commersialize own ideas.
• Initiator and project manager for FRAM. Students innovation centre.
• Cofounder and CEO of Idletechs AS, a R&D based start-up developing tools for real-time analyzing of big data streams.
• Support to Telenor-NTNU AI Lab, and head of the group that deveolped this to Norwegian Open AI Lab