About me

I am norwegian, born in 1969, living in Oslo, Norway. I got an early start with computers, growing up during the "home computer" explosion in the early eighties. My first was a Sinclair ZX81 with a whopping 1KB of RAM. BASIC was my first programming language, then assembly language. On the ZX81 the only way to allocate memory was to put in really long strings as REM statements in a basic program, then locating that string in RAM and using POKE to put in the proper hex codes for the assembler program before calling it.

I grew up in Oslo, but during my graduate studies I moved to Trondheim (NTH/NTNU), Munich and Karlsruhe. My first job after graduating was with a computer games company (Funcom), where I had various roles (Developer, Producer, Creative Director, CTO, Director). During my years in Funcom I also got to experience life in Dublin and Zürich. After Funcom I've started and sold several companies in the banking/financial space (credit card fraud detection systems and an internet payment processor). I've also worked in the financial industry, both as a developer of screeners and backtester software, venture capital analyst, real time/algorithmic trading and fund manager.

Professionally I enjoy working with technology, software development and finance. I enjoy investing and trading, and create/use whatever software and analysis tools available to try to get an edge.

Outside of my professional interests I play squash and enjoy time with my family.