Meet some of our mentors

Tone Ringstad

FOUNDER AND CEO

Company: Culture Intelligence
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Team Culture
Bio: Tone helps our start-ups identify cultural codes and strategies that engage their team to drive the company forward. She is a strong voice in the startup community in Oslo, and an acknowledged speaker within innovation, culture transformation and leadership.

Pelin Hizal Smines

CEO

Company: SAMMEVEI
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Marketing, Business Plan, Investor Pitching, Business Development
Bio: Holding and Executive MBA and international affairs masters degree, Pelin has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, sales and product management, where 8 years of her carrier was in mobility startups.

Auke Hunneman

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MARKETING

Company: BI Norwegian Business School
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Marketing; Retail Marketing; Marketing (Mix) Models and Marketing Analytics.
Bio: Associate Professor at the Marketing Department of BI Norwegian Business School and one of the developers and Associate Dean for BI's Master of Science in Business Analytics. He does research and teaching in the area of marketing analytics, retailing, and marketing's effectiveness.

Stefan Engeseth

AUTHOR, SPEAKER, CEO AND BUSINESS CONSULTANT

Company: Detective Marketing
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Expertise: Sales Strategy
Bio: Stefan is renowned author of Sharkonomics, a business book that draws parallells between the shark’s instincts and strategies and how companies can attack and defend their business in today's market. Over the years, Stefan Engeseth has worked as a consultant with internationally companies and Fortune 500 corporations. He is often described as on of the world’s leading experts and speakers in his field.

Cecilia Fenelius

TF BITR VERKSAMHETSCHEF HS LEDNINGSSTÖD

Company: Region Värmland
Location: Karlstad, Sweden
Expertise: Public Healthcare
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Thanh Nguyen Nygaard

SENIOR CONSULTANT AT SOPRA STERIA

Company: Propl
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Digital Transformation
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Rima Harb

TITLES

Company: Teralight Group
Location: Beirut
Expertise: Technology Sales
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Livia Holm

MARKET ACCESS DIRECTOR IN KRY

Company: KRY
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Expertise: B2B Business Development
Bio: Being part of KRY's journey since the summer of 2015, she was hired as one of the company's first employees. Since then, she has gone through various roles which contributed to the company's establishment and expansion both in Sweden and in Europe, from start-up to unicorn.

Stella Sederlin

REGIONAL SALES MANAGER

Company: Capsule Tech
Location: Malmö, Sweden
Expertise: Sales & Marketing in Public Healthcare
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Chelsea Ranger

HEALTH TECH & LIFE SCIENCE STRATEGIST

Company: Ranger Consulting
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Clinical HealthTech
Bio: Chelsea works as a consultant across the Nordic life science ecosystem with research groups, start-ups, scale-ups, and cluster organizations. While her activities are tailored to the needs of each client, her core services include strategy & business development, KOL or stakeholder identification & engagement, investor relations, and storytelling. Regardless of which hat she is wearing, her goal is to support convergence across sectors of the HealthTech industry, within the Nordic region, and between the Nordics & the United States.

Toni Nijm

FOUNDER OF YOBI PARTNERS

Company: Yobi Partners
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Expertise: IPR & Funding
Bio: Toni has over 20 years’ experience working with start-ups; as founder, advisor, investor, and board member. His specialty is tech-enabled service businesses and deep-tech companies. Toni shares his broad expertise with our start-ups, ranging from IP, computer vision, AI and machine learning to blockchain.

Ilona Gulshak

CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD

Company: Commercialization Reactor
Location: Riga, Latvia
Expertise: Management, investments, investor relations, market application, business and commercialization strategy.
Bio: Finance professional with international business experience in finance and banking industry. Actively engaged in deep-tech, supporting science commercialization and helping new enterprises to bring value to the economy.

Jens Bryntesson

SALES MANAGER NEMKO SWEDEN AB

Company: NEMKO
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: CE Accreditation
Bio: Jens helps our start-ups launch their electrical product on the national and international market. With degrees and experience from both engineering and marketing, he combines his technical know-how with inside knowledge of market wants and needs.

Mei Wen

VENTURE CATALYST, TECH ENTREPRENEUR, BOARD PROFESSIONAL

Company: YInvest, Startup Sweden
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Expertise: Robotics, Emerging Tech & Funding
Bio: Mei is an active venture catalyst in several markets, including the Nordics. A robotics engineer turned serial entrepreneur and investor, she is founder of several companies and knows first-hand what makes or breaks a tech start-up.

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Steinar Svalesen

PARTNER

Company: Cyrus Capital, Ridgehaven Ventures
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Funding
Bio: Steinar Svalesen has more than 25 years’ experience in the IT/media/telecom industries with special focus on venture transactions in the technology space. He currently serves on executive boards of Scandinavian early-stage and growth technology companies in addition to serving as a mentor for young tech entrepreneurs.

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Robert Rhönnstad

SENIOR CONSULTANT IN SCAALER

Company: SCAALER IoT Labs
Location: Arvika, Sweden
Expertise: Systems Architecture
Bio: An IoT/IoT/IT Solution Consultant, Robert has broad experience within system, solution and cloud design and architecture with a particular enthusiasm for smart building and smart cities. He helps our start-ups with R&D in many different tech projects.

Maria Marenco

FOUNDER/ CEO

Company: Mentfort Ltd.
Location: UK / Sweden
Expertise: Digital Health & Wellness Expert, Mental Health, Blockchain Strategist
Bio: Digital Health and Wellness Expert | Mental Health | Blockchain Strategist and Advisor | International Keynote Speaker | Serial Entrepreneur | Angel Investments
Markets: Nordics, LATAM, EMEA.

Yolanda Ramiro

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER CONSULTANT / CO-FOUNDER

Company: Merkle Inc. / Massnex LLC
Location: Switzerland, Zug
Expertise: Strategic marketing, digital transformation, global campaign management, corporate and business development, venture capital
Bio: Strategic marketing and project manager with 15+ years of experience delivering results for companies in multiple industries and geographies in healthcare, digital, consumer, advisory, and industrial.

Tale Skjølsvik

PROFESSOR/VICE-DEAN R&D;, FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY, ART & DESIGN, OSLOMET

Company: Oslo Metropolitan University
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Digital Transformation
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Santosh Kotnis

CEO & MANAGING PARTNER

Company: SpringUp Capital, Geneva Business School, BIRD Incubator, Aggrator Incubator
Location: Pune, India
Expertise: Emerging Tech
Bio: Santosh is all about growth. As a seasoned entrepreneur and start-up mentor with experience from across the globe he can advise our start-ups on how to streamline their processes to maximize profitability as well as prepare for investment opportunities

Volker Seyffert

FOUNDER AND CEO AT NORDIC ANALYSIS AS

Company: Nordic Analysis, Kjeller Innovation, StartupLab, Sopra Steria Scaleup
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expertise: Entrepreneurship
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