ONTOGENY GROUP
Ontogeny means development from embryonic stage to adult individual - we assist as a strategic development partner for organisations in change
TEAM

Andreas Thalund-Fossen
Group Partner
Andreas has worked for many years in and with large international companies and has a global perspective. He has extensive experience in change and restructuring, improvement work, turnarounds, IT and supply chain. Both as an advisor to boards, as a hired general manager or purchasing director in major restructuring processes, or as an advisor and driver for managers who carry out extensive change processes.

Bjørn Harald Hansen
Group Partner
Bjørn Harald has over 20 years of experience from consulting, the financial industry and operational management roles. He is an "all-rounder" who has worked with a wide range of issues related to strategy, business development, analysis and organizational development for both large corporations, growth companies and start-ups. He also has extensive consulting experience from the public sector.

Jan Wessel Bratterud
Group Partner
Jan has 17 years of experience as a product, marketing and alliance director in the IT market. He has broad experience from global IT companies and smaller start-ups, with extensive international experience. For the past 20 years, Jan has been involved in corporate finance and investments in various businesses. He currently also heads the investment company MTI Vekst.

Robert Frostad
Associated Partner
Robert has 25 years of experience from consulting and operational management roles in banking and insurance, oil and gas, energy, telecom, food and retail. He is a specialist in restructuring and commercialization of new production technologies. Background from McKinsey & Co. and Index Advisors, among others.

Svein Solhaug
Associate
Svein holds a Master's degree in Economics with a specialization in Finance from BI Norwegian Business School. He has experience from various start-up companies and plays on the Norwegian senior national team in sand volleyball, where he competes in the world series.

Anita Abdullahu
Consultant

Daniel Stefano Dilling
Partner Consulting
Daniel has 15 years of experience leading large customer projects and teams in the private and public sector. Deep knowledge in retail, telecom and media. Works with process improvement, digitalization, operating model, governance model and change management to ensure value realization for the customer. Background from Accenture and NTNU Industrial Economics.

Marius Kristian Nordkvelde
Director
Marius has extensive experience in applied research projects and analysis in strategy and industrial competitiveness. He has for a long time studied many of the largest industries in Norway, including energy, finance and construction and real estate. He holds an MBA from BI and an Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Rolf Kragerud
Managing Partner
Rolf has 28 years of experience from the consulting and finance industry and from operational management roles in business. Throughout his career, he has worked with companies that have been in a significant restructuring situation as a result of strategic, technological, market and/or ownership changes. Among other things, he has been involved in building up Accenture's strategy department in Oslo and worked at McKinsey & Co.

Øyvind R. Eikeland
Director
Øyvind has extensive experience in strategy work and M&A from several of the largest consulting and finance houses. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School.

Bendik Persch Andersen
Manager
Bendik holds an MSc in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from NTNU, and has previous solid experience in production management, sales and distribution. Bendik also has a background as a professional cross-country skier at a high national level.

Espen Sten Johansen
Man. Partner OCF/Group Partner
Espen has 18 years of experience from the energy and finance sector, from operational and advisory roles in Oslo, Houston, London and Dubai. He has significant expertise in equity and debt financing, technology and business development, commercialisation, marketing and the establishment of strategic partnerships.

Ole Herman Imset
Associate
Ole Herman is a student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where he is completing his master's degree in Industrial Economy and Technology Management (Indøk). He will start full-time at Ontogeny in the summer of 2024, but is already assisting the company with a number of tasks.

Sebastian Sande
Associate
Sebastian holds a Master's degree in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. Furthermore, he holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Edinburgh with a major in Finance. During his undergraduate studies, he spent a year on exchange at Bocconi in Milan.

Bernhard Belaúnde Brynsrud
Associate
Bernhard holds an MSc in Business Administration from BI Norwegian Business School with a specialization in Sustainable Finance. During his studies, he also spent six months at the NOVA School of Business and Economics in Lisbon. He has also been a junior consultant at Edge Innovation Group during his studies.

Jan Fredrik Herud
Consultant
Jan Fredrik has a master's degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from NTNU, with a specialization in finance and marine engineering. Jan Fredrik has experience with analysis and financial modelling from studies and various projects, in addition to previous internships.

Petter Mather Simonsen
Associated Partner
Petter has 30+ years of experience as an advisor/leader in strategy and business development, M&A and change processes. He thrives in the undefined borderland where technology, finance and market meet, and has experience from a number of major international corporations such as ABB, Elkem and Telenor, as well as innovative start-ups.

Sindre Halvorsen
Consultant
Sindre holds a master's degree in business with a specialization in finance from BI Norwegian Business School, with an exchange stay at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He has a background as an analyst at BDO Advisory, where he has assisted companies with everything from raising capital to developing and implementing new strategies.