Entreprenørskolens kull 2009

Mathias Aasvestad

Mathias has an academic background from Industrial Economics and Technology Management. He spent his first years after high school pursuing a career as a professional football player, but eventually listened to his parents and went back to school. His interest in entrepreneurship and business development was further stimulated during his time in Start NTNU, where he was a board member. Mathias is hard working, thrives on challenges and is team-oriented in his approach to work.

Elisabeth Alvestad

Elisabeth has a diverse history of work experience. Her academic background from engineering is in the field of energy and environment. Not afraid of challenges she usually has several projects going on at once. Action and less talk is imperative. She likes to try new things and be a part of start-ups, both business related and leisure.

Robert Bykvist

Robert has an academic background from the Department of Engineering Cybernetics. He enjoys taking on challenges, and mastering them, regardless context. This is proven by his academic accomplishments, military career as well as achievements in sports.

Andreas Fjeldskår

Andreas studied industrial design engineering for three years before starting the NTNU school of entrepreneurship. He is a very active person who loves training and all sorts of air and water sports. Andreas has his own small industrial design company and has been active in several student organizations.

Gaute Kristiansen

Gaute has his background from product development and material technology. Besides being a student at NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, he is active in the students sports association NTNUI. His passion for windsurfing, sports and business gives him a hard time to sit still.

Vegar Lein Ausrød

During his 26 years of living Vegar has learned to enjoy enthusiasm, honesty and the act of giving. He has an academic background from energy and environment at NTNU. Last year he sailed around the Atlantic ocean with four smelly and dirty classmates. He believes this extreme teamwork experience can help him in achieving great results together with his team at NTNUs School of Entrepreneurship.

Daro Navaratnam

Has background from engineering in computer science. His work experience spans from being a salesman in a part time job to etablish his own business. He is a member of Start NTNU. He developed a great interest in entrepreneurship, and the cornerstone of his personality is his drive to succeed.

Daro has worked with dSAFE

Håkon Otto Skeide

With a desire to learn more about business development and to see new technologies help us improve our way of life, he decided to join the NSE. Since early childhood he has always felt a need to know how stuff works, and NTNU was an obvious path to choose. He has a background in electronic engineering, focusing on radiosystems, surveillance and positioning systems, both terrestial and orbital. Among his hobbies and interests are cooking, movies, politics and poker.

Jan-Henrik Parmann

Jan-Henrik has his background from Industrial Design and has also studied two years in France. He has one year of military service and has later served his country in KFOR IV. Sailing, skiing and golfing is what he enjoys the most in his leisure time.

Nils Skuncke

Nils has his background from both computer science and mechanical engineering. He has always been fascinated with start-ups and new technology. Besides being a great swimmer, with a gold medal from the norwegian championship for juniors, he has also participated in the Abel competition, a national math competition where he achieved an attendance in the final. In his spare time, Nils likes to og cliff climbing.

Sveinung Susort

Comes from Tysvær near Haugesund. Has background from The Department of Energy and Process Engineering, and his plan is to launch new ventures in Norway that will shake the world a bit. Enjoys sporting, hunting and good times hanging out with locals.

Ingrid Vik

Ingrid has been studying on a master programme of Engineering in Math and Physics for three years at NTNU, and then one year at the University of Auckland in New Zealand before entering the school of Entrepeneurship. She plays the violine on her spare time and she loves to og skiing and to og hiking in the norwegian mounatins.

Jan Erik Vinje

Jan-Erik is a creative and somewhat unpredictable man, with an academic background in computer science, and a professional background in multimedia. But despite his many wild ideas and fairly absent-minded personality, he has a rather clearly defined goal for his life: Before he goes six feet under, he intends to have participated in making a significant improvement to the condition of humanity. He sees a central role for innovative technology based business in such activities and plans to put his effort into developing such businesses.

Ola Wedefelt

Ola has an academic background from Product Development and Material Technology. He had a former active roll in the student organizations Start NTNU and Teknologiporten, he also participated in the student project International Business in Vietnam. Ola has always had a great interest in entrepreneurship and hope he one day will be a part of a successful start-up. In his spare time he really enjoys windsurfing.

Svein Økland

Svein has his technical background in cybernetics. He is determined to pursue his great interest in entrepreneurship to form a successful high-tech start-up. He has managerial experience from public relations and sales from the Student Society in Trondheim, as well as Norway's largest cultural festival UKA.