Provider of AI driven software solutions

Knut H. H. Johansen

CEO

Knut has more than twenty years’ experience innovating, developing and delivering IT solutions to the energy industry world-wide.  He has delivered IT solutions to physical and financial power exchanges in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia beginning with the deregulation of the Norwegian power market in 1991, a precursor for deregulation processes worldwide. Knut has also delivered IT systems to the balancing, spot, and financial energy markets, as well as the clearing of exchange products and OTC to Nord Pool, the Nordic power exchange. He’s been responsible for ETRM and grid system deliveries to a large number of prominent energy companies, including E.ON, Statoil, Hydro, Statkraft, Fortum and Mercuria.

Knut was the initiating driver behind of the Norwegian Centre of Expertise – Smart Energy Markets. NCE Smart Energy Markets is supported by the Norwegian Authorities.

Knut E. Gustavsen

CVP

Knut started as a system developer of User Interface Management Systems for nuclear reactor control rooms, working closely with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Chattanooga, US. He has been lead project manager for many large software implementation projects around the world including an infrastructure delivery to the California Power Exchange, OMX’s settlement system delivery to the Korean Power Exchange together with ABB, Tieto’s CIS delivery to Fortum in Sweden and Tieto’s CIS delivery to Hafslund in Norway.

Knut co-founded US Hand-El Inc in Silicon Valley California, which was later relocated to Pasadena in Los Angeles. He was responsible for marketing, sales, and product strategies for all power exchange and ISO systems in the US, and was instrumental in building a 20 person support, service and development organization for the US market.

Knut was also responsible for Tieto’s utility business development sector and was an instrumental part of getting state funding for a 10-year Norwegian Centre of Expertise program (Smart Energy Markets). He was also an initiator and project owner of a state funded smart grid project that was one of the very first smart grid research projects in Norway.

Tina M. Skagen

Chief Operating Officer

Erik Åsberg

Chief Technology Officer

Erik Åsberg was appointed Microsoft Regional Director-Norway in 2019, for a second consecutive two-year period. This is a program that consists of 150 of the world's top technology visionaries chosen specifically for their proven cross-platform expertise, community leadership, and commitment to business results, and therefore nominated as trusted advisor to the developer and IT professional audiences and Microsoft.

Roy Einar Angell

Chief Financial Officer

He has headed up financial departments in a variety of international companies over the last three decades, and also held positions as logistics manager and COO.

With a broad experience in people management, M&A, finance, tax, funding, contract negotiations and building and developing international organizations, Roy contributes on a number of business critical functions in eSmart Systems.

Henrik Bache

Chief Commercial Officer

Davide Roverso

Chief Analytics Officer

See Davide’s publications here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Davide_Roverso

Gro Kruse Kjølstad

Chief Financial Controller

Tore Lie

Chief Product Officer

Steve Hambric

President North America

Bastien Gambini

Investment Director at Equinor Energy Ventures

Bastien Gambini is Investment Director at Equinor Energy Ventures and chairman of the board at eSmart Systems. He has more than 15 years of experience investing in venture and private equity in the energy transition sectors. By training he has a strong background in financial analysis. Former lecturer at University Paris-Dauphine, he holds 2 master’s degree in Finance and an MBA at Insead.

After being the junior founder of one of the Cleantech pioneer funds, Demeter Partners, back in 2005, he joined Equinor Energy Ventures in 2017. Skilled in cross boarder team management and with international work experiences (France, Venezuela, Spain and UK), he sits at the board of several energy related companies in the US, Germany, Norway and the UK.

Joseph Sirosh

Chief Technology Officer at Compass

Joseph is the Chief Technology Officer for Compass, where he leads the development of the real estate industry’s first end-to-end platform. Until Dec 2018, Joseph served as Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer for AI. During his five years at Microsoft, he also held product and engineering responsibility for all enterprise database, big data and AI products, with 1,700+ engineers.

Prior to Microsoft, Joseph spent nine years as a VP of Technology at Amazon where among other things he managed the Global Inventory Platform for Amazon’s Consumer Business, and built the machine learning and Transaction Risk Management teams. Joseph holds a PhD and MS in Neural Networks from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Fredrik Nygaard

CEO at Katalysator AS

Fredrik Nygaard is CEO at Katalysator AS and has more than seven years of diversified M&A, business development and financing experience from Aker ASA and ten years as CFO including public listed companies. Fredrik is an analytical, structured and dedicated team builder. He is project manager of several business development projects, M&A transactions and IPOs.

Erik Åsberg

CTO at eSmart Systems

Erik is CTO at eSmart Systems with 20 years’ experience in software development within the energy space, mainly using Microsoft and Oracle technologies. The last four years he has been focusing on architecture and design of Big Data technologies, all on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Erik Åsberg was appointed Microsoft Regional Director-Norway in 2019, for a second consecutive two-year period. This is a program that consists of 150 of the world's top technology visionaries chosen specifically for their proven cross-platform expertise, community leadership, and commitment to business results, and therefore nominated as trusted advisor to the developer and IT professional audiences and Microsoft.

Eivind Egeland Olsen

Chief Investment Officer at Nysnø

Eivind Egeland Olsen is Chief Investment Officer at Nysnø He previously held the position as head of corporate finance for SR-Bank Markets. Eivind has extensive financial and investment experience from his time as partner in ABG Sundal Collier, Jefferies & Company’s Cleantech team and The Royal Bank of Scotland in London. Eivind holds a Master of Science in Finance and Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Warwick Business School (WBS).

Michael Donnelly

Partner and Chief Risk Officer at Energy Impact Partners

Michael Donnelly is partner and Chief Risk Officer at Energy Impact Partners. Mr Donnelly spent a 25-year career at General Electric focused on energy in various management functions, most recently acting as Head of Business Development for GE Energy-Industrial Solutions. Before that, he led the Energy Technology Group for GE Equity, where he focused on investments in power and energy technology companies in storage, distribution and energy management.

Mr. Donnelly also served as a Risk Officer for the Equity Group where he ensured proper underwriting for a broad array of equity and debt investments. He also served as a Risk Officer at GE Global Sponsor Finance where he underwrote and managed a portfolio of over $1B. Mr. Donnelly holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia.

Thomas W. Thomas

Managing Director of innogy Ventures