Gaute is an international executive with expertise in business development and sales, go-to-market, technology and transformational leadership. His foremost skill is to build companies larger, grow teams and realign the business with the proper strategy.

He is a technologist by education – with a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). More recently, he has added financial and leadership educational programs from e.g. London Business School.

His last company build-up was Techstep – a buy & build where eight companies were merged according to a common strategy for growth and had their business strategies transformed to one of solutions selling. The company was subsequently listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Gaute sits on the board of directors in several companies and has a passion for helping technology companies achieve commercial scale.