Max Samuel

Max joined SNÖ in 2020 after spending six years at Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel’s personal investment office, in Los Angeles and San Francisco. At Thiel Capital, Max served in leadership roles across the office’s investments and legal matters.

Before joining Thiel Capital, Max worked at the law firm Wilson Sonsini in Silicon Valley, where he advised high growth technology companies ranging from pre-incorporation to exit. Prior to his time at Wilson Sonsini, Max was an Equity Capital Markets Analyst at Credit Suisse in New York City.

Max has a BA from Yale University, a JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School and a certificate of study in Business Economics and Public Policy from Wharton.

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Delian Asparouhov

Delian Asparouhov is a principal at Founders Fund and cofounder and President of Varda Space Industries, which is building the world’s first space factories. Before joining Founders Fund, he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, Head of Growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to ski and play soccer.

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Petteri Koponen

Petteri has founded five companies, including Jaiku and First Hop. In addition to the various start-up CxO roles and board memberships, he has been the chairman of Supercell, Grand Cru, and Everywear Games. Petteri has experience in  public companies as a board member of Elisa, Finland’s largest telco, in addition to working for Google in Mountain View and London after its acquisition of Jaiku. In his free time, Petteri hangs out with his family, pumps iron, plays games, writes (toy) code, and enjoys books and movies. He is currently the chairman of Wolt, Smartly.io, and Varjo.

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Giedre Malinauskaite

Giedre is Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Cognite and is responsible for developing Cognite’s brand globally. She leads an international team which defines and executes Cognite’s corporate communications, demand generation and PR strategies. Together with her team she has turned Cognite into one of the most recognized technology brands in Norway and is building Cognite’s brand recognition globally. Giedre started her career in the industry more than 11 years ago and has held various roles within strategic marketing, branding, and communications, and served in a number of roles in industry organizations such as the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

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Henri Parviainen

Henri is in charge of global growth at Clarify.io and leads a team responsible for the whole cycle from awareness to referral. Clarify makes industrial data available and useful across the organization and now Henri’s main task is to find global success for Clarify in new industries worldwide. Henri has spent the last 10 years learning how to accelerate growth by bringing sales, marketing, and engineering together, and believes he’s closer than ever to make it successful. Henri brings experience from big enterprise software sales to scaling global commercial growth for cutting-edge hardware startups together. In addition, Henri is the co-founder of a Finnish craft brewery, a Norwegian holistic wellness company, and an active triathlete.

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Teodor Bjerrang

Growing up with 8bit computers and floppy disks in the 80s and being part of the Internet revolution through the pioneer company New Media Science in the 90s and over 20 years as a developer and designer, now turned VC investing and supporting passionate entrepreneurs across the nordics.

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Bård Anders Kasin

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Axel Hunter

Axel is a distinguished Technologist with over nine years of professional experience in financial services, energy and sports. He has worked for institutions such as the Mettle Bank, Bo Bank, Shell and IMG Media.

He has spent the last five years building digital banks for the incumbents in London before deciding to remain a European citizen and moving to Norway. Currently, he is building the future of banking in Astat, Norway’s new neobank focussed on making life easier for SMBs.

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Andrea Di Pietrantonio

An early startup employee and operator turned VC, Andrea specializes in expansion, go-to-market, and fundraising strategies. At Inventure, Andrea has been committed to and obsessed with re-writing what it means to actually support portfolio entrepreneurs, dropping the fuss and focusing on what matters for the founders. He heads portfolio operations at Inventure, focusing full-time on hands on building and sparring with founders.

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Hanne Hollstedt

Hanne is Head of Marketing at Schibsted Ventures. Daily she works to support the companies in the venture portfolio in developing and building brands and professionalizing marketing. Before she started in the startup world, she was, among other things, Marketing Manager at Thon Hotels and responsible for raising that brand. A work that has won awards for both tactical and strategic marketing at home and abroad, including this year’s marketer.

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Kine Bergseth

Kine is among the country’s most experienced 360 marketers. She has worked with the brand in Norwegian in all phases and channels, from challenger to established brand. She has experience from Telia and XXL. Most recently as Head of Digital in Vipps AS, and currently as CMO of Bookis. Power measurement and branding are key words for Kine.

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Ryan Savage

Ryan has almost 20 years of experience in HR and recruiting from the US and the Nordics. In the US, Ryan worked for giants like JP Morgan Chase and IPG Mediabrands, and since his tenure in the Nordics focused exclusively on technology startups. As Wolt’s first Head of Talent, he led the talent expansion into Nordics and Baltics and built out the initial HR and recruiting foundations. In addition to Wolt, Ryan has served as a talent executive and consultant to scaleups like Swappie, Yousician, and Compensate.

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Borgar Ljosland

Borgar joined ProVenture Management in 2020. He brings 22 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and start-up CEO. Borgar has broad experience from international business development in multiple market verticals – working with technologies ranging from semiconductors, electronics, computer graphics, media and software. Borgar holds an MSc in Computer Science from NTNU.

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Sigve Søråsen

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Thomas Bacon

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Carlo Kriesi

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