NorBAN Management Team
Administration
Board of Directors
Senior Advisors
Honorary members
Terje Ernst Mikalsen
Known for being the first investor into Norsk Data in 1967, and later the long-term CEO of Mosvold Farsund shipping group and the Mega Pacific Group. Made headlines with the successful restructuring and exit from Hafslund Nycomed in 1996 and has since supported dozens of other businesses across a range of industries, from computer electronics and shipping to waste handling, energy and fish feed!
Founded Teknoinvest – the first scandinavian VC in 1984, and has been an active angel investor and involved in a range of organizations to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Norway, including being among the first members of NorBAN.
Read more at Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian).
Lars Monrad-Krohn
From a background in military research he was one of the main founders and CEO of Norsk Data from 1967, and later also founded the companies Mycron, Tiki Data and NCNOR.
He has been a long term champion for commercialization of research in advanced technologies through his role as Professor II at the University of Oslo, where he spearheaded the establishment of The Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship in 1999, and he was also one of the founders and initial boardmembers of NorBAN in 2010.