The Blogger

My background is best described in my profile on LinkedIN.

I started my career within collaboration and social business 19. february 1999. That was my first working day with Lotus Development Norway AS. My job role was as a Business Development Manager – working with our Norwegian Business Partners.

At that time Lotus was a 100 % owned daughter company of IBM. I also became the first norwegian Lotus employee to integrate with IBM Software Group. My job was to establish a Business Partner Channel for IBM Software Group.

Most people in the Norwegian Lotus Community, both Business Partners and Customers, will know me as a strongly engaged Lotus-enthusiast. It happens that people call me Mr. Lotus and believe I have yellow blood in my veins. It might not be that extreme, but I do have a big bouncing heart for collaboration and interaction between people, and the fantastic technologies that makes this possible.

Other, who also know me privately, will know me as a loving father to my 4 + 1 grown up children and my 5 grandchildren, my wife and our cat.

When time allows late summer, I go fishing (fly fishing only) with good friends from the Lotus community. And I love to get away with my wife to southern shores, often around the Mediteranean, for the sun, the food, the culture and the people. Maybe it is the few french drops of blood in my veins that make me feel like a latin.

My professional bacground is from various jobs within journalism and photography – newspapers, magazines and weeklies. I also have worked as a consultant within information/PR and as an advisor on strategy, employee development and personal productivity.

I have also written and published books about sales, marketing, key account management and published article series, video manuscripts and training material around the same themes.

And not to forget my four years with electronic communications in the Norwegian Armed Forces. But most of my professional time I have now spent with sales, marketing and business development in the IT business.

Nowadays I used most of my time working with adoption of social business in Norwegian businesses. Doing a lot of presentations, key notes, demos and talks with norwegian business leaders to promote true collaboration and true social business.