Meet the Team

It's all about the people...

Between us we have hundreds years of experience in the industry. Meet the experts who lead the revolution.

  • Odd Sverre Østlie Chief Executive Officer
    People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe. Simon Sinek
  • Håkon Dahle CTO & Board member - Norway
    The future will be built by those who will take risks and action to invent the world they want. Vinod Khosla
  • Giles Chamberlin VP of Engineering - United Kingdom
    Be curious. Prof. Stephen Hawking
  • Linda Christin Hoff CFO
    Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says "It can't be done" Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Åsmund O. Fodstad EVP Strategic Partners
    There is only one boss, the customer. Sam Walton
  • Alan Ford R&D - United Kingdom
    There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russel
  • Anders Løkke Marketing - Norway
    I don't have dreams. I have goals. Harvey Specter
  • Andreas Winterwold R&D - Norway
    Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
  • Angie Kraja Customer Success Manager - US
    Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. Alan Turing
  • Arild Skiri VP of Sales - Northern Europe
    The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. Peter Drucker
  • Ben Hockley R&D - United Kingdom
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
  • Bong Seng Choy Sales - Asia
    The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs
  • Chris Ford Vice President of Sales, Americas
    Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation Satya Nadella
  • Chris Swinney Solutions Architect - United Kingdom
    The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Aristotle
  • Colin Bradbury R&D - United Kingdom
    DON'T PANIC. Douglas Adams
  • Darius Keeley R&D - United Kingdom
  • Dennis Lorist Senior Sales Engineer - Australia
    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke
  • Diane DeCarlo Sales Director, US North East
    Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. We didn’t come this far only to come this far Arthur C. Clarke
  • Eamonn Shaw Head of Design and User Experience
    The task is not to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees. Schopenhauer/Schrödinger
  • Eddie Clifton VP of Worldwide Service Providers
    It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog. Forrest Griffin
  • Eoin McLeod R&D - United Kingdom
    Success is not final, failure isn't fatal: it's the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
  • Erin Romeo Sales Director, US Central
    We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give material form to thoughts, and reality to values. Ayn Rand
  • Erlend Graff R&D - Norway
    Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb
  • Espen Notodden R&D - Norway
    You don't have to be the best in town, just try to be the best, until the best comes around. Buddy Guy
  • Fabrice Emonnet Regional Sales Director - France, Middle East, Africa
    If you're not afraid of your dreams, they're not big enough. My running coach
  • Graham Walsh Director, Solutions Architecture - United Kingdom
    If you're 70% sure about an idea go for it. If you wait till you're 100%… you'll never make a decision, and never get anywhere. Richard Reed
  • Greg Adams R&D - United Kingdom
    If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through. General Melchett
  • Håvard Graff R&D - Norway
    It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Duke Ellington
  • Håvard Jørgensen Watten Financial Controller
    He who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right. Confucius
  • Ian Mortimer R&D
    It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Jamie Buck Director, Financial Services, US
    Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. John Wooden
  • Jens Höglin SE - Nordic
    Nu jävlar! Anonymous
  • Jeremy Clarke R&D - United Kingdom
    If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. Stephen Hunt
  • Jeremy Veit Sales Engineering - US South
    Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
  • Joanne Messina Sales - United States
    When you're finished changing, you're finished. Benjamin Franklin
  • John Bassett R&D - United Kingdom
    Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien
  • John Harald Grønningen SVP - Head of EMEA
    Better 80% right than 100% wrong. Old proverb
  • John Wright R&D - United Kingdom
    The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett
  • John-Mark Bell R&D - United Kingdom
    Innovation is everything. Robert Noyce
  • Jon Rhodes Sales - United Kingdom & Ireland
    To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill
  • Jordan Owens VP of Architecture
    We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
  • Joseph Seah SE - Asia
    I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. Lucille Ball
  • Juliet Durdle Technical Writing - United Kingdom
    Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett
  • Justin Bondi Director Service Provider Architectures
    Inspiration does not willingly visit the lazy. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Kjell Anderson Sales - US West Coast
    Make each day your masterpiece. John Wooden
  • Lars Petter Endresen R&D - Norway
    Bert, what utter nonsense! Ohh! Why do you always complicate things that are really quite simple? Mary Poppins
  • Lukasz Zgrzebski R&D - Norway
  • Marcel Horsinek Sales - CEE
    You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Wayne Gretzky
  • Marius Nilsen R&D - Norway
    Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mark Bedwani Senior Sales Engineer - ANZ
    Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. Mahatma Gandhi
  • Matt Hansen Operations - United States
    Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Anthony Brandt
  • Michael Whittam Regional Sales Manager - Sweden, Finland, Baltics
  • Mikhail Fludkov R&D - Norway
    Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama
  • Nicolas Cormier R&D - Norway
    Why join the Navy if you can be a pirate? Steve Jobs
  • Patrick Capozzi Solutions Architect - US South East
    There is a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success. Paul 'Bear' Bryant
  • Paul Collins Technical Writing - United Kingdom
    Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Albert Einstein
  • Peter Boba R&D - Norway
    Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? Charles Bukowski
  • Peter Edgar R&D - Norway
    It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham
  • Richard Harrison R&D - United Kingdom
    If it hasn't been tested, it doesn't work. Steve Howell
  • Rik Coder Sales - United States
    Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
  • Russell Bigg Senior Director of Worldwide Service Providers
    The entire British empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going to war without one, you're mistaken. Eddie, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels
  • Sarah Barrell UK Office Manager
    Want as you live or live as you want
  • Spencer Wise Solutions Architect, US East
    Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
  • Stephen Nottage R&D - United Kingdom
    He who dares, wins. Derek Trotter
  • Steve Neville Sales - Australia
    There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. Mary Kay Ash
  • Stian Selnes R&D - Norway
    If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. General Patton
  • Susan Goodwin Director of Channel Management - US
    In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. Robert Collier
  • Thomas Guggenbuhl IT - Norway
    Never tell me the odds! Han Solo
  • Toby Finch R&D - United Kingdom
    Make it so. Jean-Luc Picard
  • Tom Hopkins Sales - United Kingdom
    I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives. Satya Nadella
  • Vincent Sanders R&D - United Kingdom
    If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton
  • Yvonne Taylor-Cherry Sales Director, US South East
    Work is not a place that I go to, it’s a thing that I do from wherever I am!
  • Zehua Tian R&D - Norway