Fair Chance Group- the team
CEO, Jens Petter Høili: Høili has extensive track record from the retail industry as part of building the Høili Group (Europris), a leading Nordic retail chain. Jens Petter Høili was key to the sale of Høili Group to private equity firm Industri Kapital in 2005. This transaction marked the largest private transaction in Scandinavia that year. Master of Marketing & Business, Computer Engineer. Founder of EasyPark.
EVP Erik Bærøe, Research Development: Deputy CEO of the Norwegian Banks Payment and Clearing Center (BBS) – one of the most modern in the world today. Director of technology at Bank of Norway, responsible for payment systems in Sparebanken NOR and Director for strategic projects in Fellesdata AS. Several years as consultant for bank and payment systems. Master of Science.
MD Petter Sørlie, FC Prize Management Norway: Broad experience from sales & marketing e.g. from Kinnevik Group. Has been independent from 1992 doing consultancy and investment. Marketing Degree from IHM Business School.
CFO, Roar Skogvoll, Finance/Administration: Held management positions in Cap Gemini since 1987, CFO, Director of Business support, Executive vice-president etc. Well experienced manager from controllership through Business support to General Management. Has had a number of Board memberships during the years. Bachelor in economics and Business Administration.
EVP Espen Brodin, Ph.D., FairChance Asia Ltd: Former CEO & President and co-founder of FAST, a leading global search engine company. FAST is currently one of the largest IT companies owned by Microsoft.
EVP Bjørnar T. Andersen, FairChance Europe Ltd: Chairman of the Board in Flytteportalen, InnoMedia, Antiva. Associated Partner in M&A Corporate Advisors Former CEO in Spektrum Software, Founder & CEO Base2Buy, Country manager in Progress Software and Product and Marketing manager in NCR Norway. Higher education in Marketing Management and Engineering, including industrial automation and Computer Electronics.
MD John Landsverk, FairChance Norway: Broad experience from sales and marketing and held several management position in Norsk Lotteridrift ASA.
FairChance Group – Board
Chairman of Board, Harald Norvik: Former CEO of Statoil, the largest offshore (upstream) company in the world, and Deputy Minister of State and Chairman of Oslo Stock Exchange. Several board positions.
Christian Borchgrevink: Master of finance, Manage his own investment company for the last 13 years. Former Managing Director in fund management i.e. DNB Investor. Several board positions.
CEO & President, Jens Petter Høili: Høili has extensive track record from the retail industry as part of building the Høili Group (Europris), a leading Nordic retail chain. Jens Petter Høili was initiated and key person to the sale of Høili Group to private equity firm Industri Kapital in 2002. This transaction marked the largest private transaction in Scandinavia that year. He is gründer of Easypark (mobile phone parking system) in Scandinavia. Master of Marketing & Business, Computer Engineer.Founder of EasyPark.
Ulf Eriksen: CEO of Compodeal AS. Compodeal has developed the Fair Chance IT-solution. Several board positions.
FairChance Group – Advisory Board
Kai Engedal: Former Deputy CEO and board member of Varner Group, a leading merchandise house and textile chain in the Nordic area. Has several board positions.
Hans Jørgen Blomseth: MBA from the University of Wisconsin and a business degree from Oslo Institute of Business Administration. Senior management positions for almost 25 years in major international and national companies. Among the deputy CEO of Alcatel STK and I:M: Skaugen, Chairman and CEO of Norsk Lotteridrift (a leading private lottery operator in Scandinavia).
Werner Hosewinckel Christie: Educated as a Medical Doctor (University of Oslo 1979) with degrees also in social science. (Sociology; University of Oslo 1969, Philosophy; University of Bergen 1971 and political Science; University of Oslo 1972). Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Norways first Minister of Health (Department of Health and Social Affairs) 1992-1995, serving in Dr. Brundtlands Cabinet 1992-1996. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is a former Chair on World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), and a later Director General of WHO.
Tom Møller: Chartered Accountant. Board Member and Senior Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Norway. Responsible for a serie of major national and international clients in PWC.