Trond is Norway’s most prolific early stage tech investor with a portfolio of 80 companies through his TRK Group vehicle. His focus areas are IoT, enterprise software and health tech as well as promoting entrepreneurship and job creation in East Africa. Trond is a Board member of NASDAQ listed Opera Software, as well as Laredal Medical and The North Alliance (NoA). He has co-founded Katapult Social Impact Accelerator as well as the global talent incubator Antler, now present in 11 countries.

Before founding TRK Group, Trond was global senior partner with McKinsey & Company, where he held a number of global leadership positions. Trond holds an M.Sc. from NTNU as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Trond lives in Oslo Norway with his wife, Monica, and their three children.