Experience

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  Royal norwegian air force

  Jun 1991 - Jun 1992

  Compulsory military service
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  Conax

  Jul 1992 - Jan 2018

  Member of the executive management team in a key advisory role for strategic planning, addressing long-term trends and strategies in the technology domain. In addition responsible for identifying, sparking and driving initiatives to harvest synergies through collaboration on technology development with other companies in the group.Advising and driving initiatives for adapting to new technology for the product platforms, including cloud migration strategies.Actively engaged with key customers and partners all over the world. Spokesperson for the company at conferences, trade shows as well as with industry media. Participating in Board of Directors meetings as representative of management. Show less Established and headed departments for professional product management of the entire security portfolio for pay-TV, representing an annual turnover of more than 70M USD in a global market.Responsible for both technical and commercial aspects of the product management lifecycle, including strategies, product planning, product development, go-to-market, sales and product discontinuation.Professionalizing the product processes through introduction of agile methodologies, project methodology and governance structure.Team leader/manager for a team of product managers. Acting as Scrum Product Owner for the main security product line. Actively engaged with key customers and partners all over the world. Project Sponsor for internal product development projects. Show less Manager for a development team (10 developers) responsible for development of the security critical parts of Conax' security products. This includes development of the Conax smart cards, all modules performing cryptographic processing in the back-end and the production management system (PMS) for personalization of the Conax smart cards. Software architect for the development of Conax CAS7 and the Conax Smart Card. Implemented the cryptographic core of Conax CAS7.Established processes and methodologies for development of security products. Initiated and headed the introduction of SCRUM as an agile development methodology in Conax. Show less

  • EVP Principal Architect

    Apr 2015 - Jan 2018

  • VP Product Management

    Jan 2012 - Mar 2015

  • Director Technical Product Management

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  • VP Product Development

    Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

  • Principal Systems Architect

    Jan 2008 - Dec 2008

  • Development Manager - Security Development

    Jan 2004 - Dec 2007

  • Chief Development Engineer

    Mar 2000 - Dec 2003

  • Development Manager - Back-end Systems

    Feb 1998 - Mar 2000

  • Senior Development Engineer

    Jul 1995 - Feb 1998

  • Development Engineer

    Jul 1992 - Jul 1995
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  Nagra

  Jan 2018 - Sept 2019

  Vice president - technology

  Overall responsible for product- and service offering related to TV devices running the Android TV system, covering both security products, business enabling backends as well as user experience. Responsible for both technical aspects such as architecture & design, as well as commercial aspects like strategies, go-to-market and partnerships. This includes initiating and being Project Manager for a reference integration program comprising 14 technology partners.Also managing relationships and technical/security dialog with Hollywood Studios and other major content providers for TV.Part of the management team in the Digital TV unit. Show less

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  Dnv

  Oct 2019 - now

  Principal cyber security consultant - industrial cyber security

  Industrial cyber security specialist with more than 30 years’ experience with information security in various positions. As Principal Cyber Security Consultant in DNV, I help companies secure their OT environment and critical infrastructure through advisory related to technology and networks, organization and processes, as well as security awareness of personnel.