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Q4 2017 Gaute Engbakk, CEO Making work mobile Marius Drefvelin, CFO T E C H S T E P 1 Highlights Highlights Q4-2017 Organic growth in end-users of 14% in 2017 to ~620,000 Transformation to solution selling, new products and


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Q4 2017 “Making work mobile”

Gaute Engbakk, CEO Marius Drefvelin, CFO

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Outlook Operations Financials

Highlights Q4-2017

  • Revenue growth of 73% to NOK 281 million (NOK 162 million)
  • EBITDA adjusted NOK 12.8 million (NOK 2.4 million)

– Revenue and EBITDA growth driven by acquisitions and solutions growth

  • Organic growth in solutions of 54% vs. target of 27% in full year 2017

– Relative share of solutions increased from 14% in 2016 to 22% in full year 2017

  • Organic growth in end-users of 14% in 2017 to ~620,000
  • Transformation to solution selling, new products and services and improve

efficiency in delivery has been focus in 2017

  • Won double digit material, public tenders with new customers (reported four)
  • Positive cash flow Q4-2017 NOK 7.9 million

Highlights

  • New technical solutions for management of devices expected to have an impact
  • n managed services revenue
  • Market forces driving the need for mobility and solutions
  • Expect improved margins as solutions revenues increase further
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«Mobile first» - 60% of all internet traffic comes from mobile devices Enterprises want and employees expect a digital workplace Capability of mobile technology now surpass desktop Barriers around security, device management, user experience and regulatory

Work is changing

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Digitization is happening everywhere both in public and private sector

Digitization deep dive Strong expectations Management focus Pressure on IT

  • department

 Employees, owners and consumers expect organizations to adopt digital tools  The consequence of this is that digitization is an important part of the agenda for top management  Focus on improving work processes  This puts pressure on organizations especially IT-departments to change much faster than before, and since everything is digitizing, the scope of IT’s activities is increasing but budgets aren’t necessarily doing the same because of focus on costs  Lack of competency in the new technologies

Rise of new solutions

 Therefore new IT-systems and IT-operating models are required  Enterprises are continuously adapting cloud services; in 2017 48% of enterprises were using cloud services compared with 29% in 20131  New solutions (UEM2) is the new trend to manage several types of devices and operating systems

What we see happening Digitization in the news

Source: SSB Note 1) Enterprises non-financial and above 10 employees. 2) Unified Endpoint Management

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Although majority of workforce is mobile in nature, mobility solutions currently mostly present in ‘stationary’ jobs

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB); Employed persons 15-74 years by sector and industrial division (2015)

80%

“More than 80% of the Norwegian workforce requires some mobility or higher”

= high mobility = some mobility = little mobility

419,000 491,000 1,678,000

Mobile workforce

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Significant market opening up in the Nordics – driven by digitization agenda

Market potential

Note: 1) CAGR 10%

Addressable market 20201:

~2m users

Addressable market 20201:

~ 5m users

In addition: Highly attractive Nordic multinationals (win at home, follow abroad) 2016: 2016:

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Techstep is built to serve the expanding market for digital workplace and mobile solutions in the Nordics

T echstep positioning

6,000+

Nordic customers

600,000+

end-users

to a large-scale customer base launching Mobile-as-a-Service…

A mobile native solutions provider tailored for expanding Nordic market market for digital workplace and mobile solutions

A mobile native company…

Built Mobile-as-a-Service solution consisting

  • f hardware and value adding software and

services for private and public enterprises – financing/subscription (OPEX) based Acquired 8 and established 1 company since Q3’16 | Built high quality customer and large scale end-user base | Listed on Oslo stock exchange

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Techstep delivers a complete stack of solutions that provides an improved total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) and lower risk to the customer

Customer value proposition – “one stop shop” Mobile as a Service Traditional

Buy hardware, software, connectivity, platform, support separate

IT and Procurement

× Higher total cost of ownership × Higher operational risk × Mainly competing on price

Mobile as a Service

Techstep provides complete MaaS solutions – one stop shop

✓ Lower total cost of ownership for customers ✓ Single point of contact, reduces operational risk ✓ Inherent focus on quality and functionality rather than price

MaaS

Support Operations Hardware Connectivity

Illustration

Applications Asset mgmt. Mobility

Dere gir oss en problemfri mobil hverdag

  • Procurement at DNB

Mobility Service & Support Hardware and connectivity IT & Security Software and applications Technological enablers

IoT Big data

Video

Sensors

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The proliferation of mobile devices is still relatively immature compared to the PC’s - managing mobile devices professionally is still due

Market adoption

Embryonic

Market adoption within enterprise Time

Growth Mature Aging

Enterprise market adoption of devices

AR & VR Laptops Desktops

 The usage of smartphones and tablets is still relatively new in organizations <10 years  Lack professional platform to manage devices  Old school way of managing PC’s  Shadow IT

Smartphones & tablets

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Techstep will be able to deliver management of all devices including Mac and PC at a lower cost, improved quality and better user experience

Market definition Market size Unified Endpoint Management Norway & Sweden

Unified Endpoint Management

Source: Markets & Markets: Unified Endpoint Management Market by Deployment Mode (Cloud, On-Premise, Hybrid), Vertical, Region - Global Forecast to 2020

Unified Endpoint Management

Unified Endpoint Management is an approach to securing and controlling desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets and IoT in a from a single console. Can be deployed via the cloud, on premise

  • r hybrid. Unified endpoint management typically relies on the mobile

device management (MDM) application program interfaces (APIs) in desktop and mobile operating systems 434.6 +43% 304.1 2019 212.8 148.9 104.2 2020 2017 2016 2018 UEM

NOKm

Managed from a single console

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To conclude; the digitization and mobility trend is well documented, and the companies with mobile DNA are best suited to ride the wave

Summary market trends Digitalization Mobility Mobile DNA T echnological and societal thresholds

Combining these trends will accelerate growth in Techstep’s core markets

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Building T echstep

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Techstep has acquired key companies with hardware and solutions business

Note: 1) Techstep has an option to acquire the remaining shares in Techstep Finance on certain conditions 2) Techstep has an option to acquire the remaining shares in Conneqted on certain conditions

T echstep organization TECHSTEP

Telenor distributor of hardware and subscriptions ~80 FTEs 2016 Software as a

  • Service. Telecom

expense management ~10 FTEs Feb Distributor of hardware and subscriptions ~20 FTEs Feb Mobility advisory in Sweden ~10 FTEs 100% March Provider of finance and leasing products ~5 FTEs

TECHSTEP FINANCE

Apr Enterprise mobility, IT and communications solutions, service and support ~30 FTEs 2016 50%1 100% 100% 100% 100%

Hardware and subscriptions Financing Mobile device management & managed services Software

June Aug. Swedish distributor of hardware and subscriptions ~40 FTEs 100% 51%2 Swedish Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) provider ~5 FTEs Oslo Apro

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2017: Company transformation and integration – lead to poor EBITDA performance in 2017, but will have positive effects long term

2017 - Building a foundation for growth and taking a leading market position

Creating a platform for transitioning to more solution selling, that will drive long-term EBITDA growth

People

 Team and recruitment improvements: Enterprise sales team in Sweden, shared services (hub), technical resources and administration  Training of sales force to sell

  • solutions. Building culture

Hiring and training for the transition to solution selling Customers

 Developing existing customers; enterprise customers lead on in «mobile first» in B2B, SME will follow  Developing new customers; 4 large contracts reported to the stock exchange, double digit number of new customers signed

Growth in new and existing customers Processes

 Established IT transformation program to lower costs and improve customer quality related to ERP, procurement,

  • rder processing, distribution

and customer service

More efficient product delivery - automation Products

 Developed standardized portfolio and solutions that can roll-out globally  Created new products for verticals, managed services and

  • MaaS. Moving towards bundling
  • f hardware and software

revenues

Scalable product portfolio and new products

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Techstep has launched MaaS to customers in both Norway and Sweden

MaaS

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Techstep entities started to deliver and win joint customer bids to cross- Nordic customers

Mytos launch in Sweden in Q4 2017 BKE delivering to Swedish subsidiaries of Apro customers BKE using Nordialog Oslo suppliers Nordialog/SmartWorks/BKE/InfraAdvice/Conneqted - joint bids to cross-Nordic customers

Techstep is delivering solutions to global customers originating from the Nordics

Shared resource pool from SmartWorks, InfraAdvice and Conneqted

Cross country cooperation

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By establishing standardised processes, Techstep can reach customers and partners more effectively

Search

Step 1

Acquire hardware vendor Well functioning solutions company

“Plug & play”

Step 2

Implement Techstep procedures on sales and delivery and distribute solutions

Step 3

Support, train and share knowledge on how to transition from traditional sales of goods to sell solutions

Step 4

The new organisation sells products from Techstep’s MaaS portfolio

Possible future expansion

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Financials

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Financial summary Q4 2017

Financials – Reported P&L

Key figures (reported)

(amounts in NOK 1 000)

Q4 2017 Q4 2016 FY 2017 FY 2016 Revenue 281 544 162 335 789 792 573 498 Adjusted EBITDA1) 12 809 2 417 29 477 13 078 Adjusted EBITA1) 12 386 2 141 28 134 12 175 Adjusted EBIT1) 5 817 (1 435) 6 973 (6 808) EBITDA 3 796 (1 316) 3 096 (4 433) EBITA 3 372 (1 592) 1 753 (5 336) EBIT (3 196) (5 168) (19 408) (24 319) Adjusted EBITDA margin (%) 4.5 % 1.5 % 3.7 % 2.3 % Adjusted EBITA margin (%) 4.4 % 1.3 % 3.6 % 2.1 % Hardware, commission & bonuses, share of revenue 78% 84% 78% 88% Solutions, share of revenue 22% 16% 22% 12% T

  • tal Assets

764 214 508 409 771 355 508 409 Cash 35 278 81 692 35 278 81 692 Equity 453 441 260 294 455 688 260 294 Employees 219 121 219 121

  • Revenue growth driven

both by acquisitions and

  • rganic growth
  • Adjusted EBITDA

margin in Q4-17 of 4.5% (1.5%)

  • 2017 pro forma

revenues NOK 937m, adjusted EBITDA NOK 42.6m

  • Equity ratio 59%

1) Adjusted for M&A costs and other one-offs of NOK 9.0 million in Q4 2017, NOK 26.3 million per FY 2017 and NOK 17.5 million per FY 2016 .

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Revenue and EBITDA adjusted development Q4 2016 – Q4 2017

Financials – Reported P&L

EBITDA adjusted

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

Total revenues

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

50 100 150 200 250 300 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% Q3 2017 180.8 Q2 2017 182.3 Q1 2017 281.7 Q4 2017 162.3 Q4 2016 NOKm

%

145.2

Hardware Commission&bonus Solutions % solutions

3 6 9 12 15 5.0% 10.0% 7.5% 2.5% 0.0% 9.8

%

Q3 2017 1.8 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 Q4 2017 NOKm 12.8 Q4 2016 5.1 2.4

EBITDA adjusted EBITDA adj margin

  • Continued

increase in the share of solutions revenue from 10% in Q1-16 to 22% in Q4-17 (target 20%)

  • Increased

profitability driven by acquisitions and organic growth in solutions, slightly offset by a decrease in hardware gross margin

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Revenue development in Hardware and Solution Q4 2016 – Q4 2017

Financials – Reported P&L

Reported solutions revenue

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

Reported hardware revenue

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

50 100 150 200 250 Q4 2017 218.9 138.8 Q3 2017 Q2 2017 143.4 Q1 2017 114.3 Q4 2016 NOKm 138.4

Commision & bonuses Hardware

  • Increase in

hardware through acquisitions

  • Organic decrease
  • f 5% in Q4-17

(vs. 10% decrease in FY17) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Q2 2017 NOKm 62.8 Q3 2017 38.9 Q1 2017 Q4 2017 42.0 30.9 Q4 2016 23.9

  • High growth in

solutions revenue, 52% organic growth in Q4-17

Solutions

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From FY16 - FY17 Solution sales grew 54%, Solutions now constitute 22%

  • f the total revenue

Revenue per development per product

Pro forma revenue per product type

FY16 to FY17

NOKm

85 132 72 203 +54% Hardware 662 Solutions

  • 16%
  • 10%

Comm&Bonus 737 FY17 FY16 22% 71% 77% 14% 8% 9%

100%

FY17 FY16

  • Target solutions growth was 27%,

actual growth has been twice as high at 54%

  • On the top-line we are starting to

see the effects of cross selling of solutions to hardware customers

  • Going forward we expect to see this

effect increasingly on the bottom-line, because of the higher margins from solutions

  • T
  • tal pro forma revenue NOK 937m

in FY17 vs NOK 953m in FY16 Comm&Bonus Solutions Hardware % of total Absolute development

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Consolidated income statement

Financials

  • Increased profitability
  • One-off costs reflecting high

M&A and restructuring activities in 2017

  • Write-down in financial

assets of NOK 25m (Kjedehuset, 8.25% holding)

Consolidated income statement

(amounts in NOK 1 000)

Q4 2017 Q4 2016 FY 2017 FY 2016 Revenue 279 827 162 071 786 561 570 526 Other revenue 1 716 264 3 231 2 972 T

  • tal revenue

281 544 162 335 789 792 573 498 Cost of goods sold (205 975) (117 421) (559 508) (405 210) Salaries and personnel costs (46 924) (29 282) (141 579) (104 041) Other operational costs (15 770) (13 214) (59 451) (51 169) Share of profit (loss) in joint ventures (66)

  • 223
  • Gross operating profit

12 809 2 417 29 477 13 078 Depreciation (423) (277) (1 344) (903) Amortization (6 568) (3 575) (21 161) (18 984) Other income and expenses (9 013) (3 733) (26 381) (17 511) Operating profit (loss) (3 196) (5 168) (19 408) (24 319) T echnical loss

  • (21 217)
  • (21 217)

Remeasurement on equity interests

  • (5 356)
  • Financial income

1 956 881 12 627 1 008 Financial expense (27 070) (1 749) (23 642) (6 126) Profit before taxes (28 309) (27 253) (35 779) (50 654) Income taxes 3 132 103 8 034 5 954 Net income (25 177) (27 150) (27 746) (44 700)

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Balance sheet

Financials

  • Intangible assets include goodwill
  • f NOK 434m and customer

relations of NOK 77m

  • Non-current interest-bearing

debt includes vendor note for the BKE acquisition NOK 15m and long-term loan in BKE of NOK 8m

  • Current interest bearing

liabilities include factoring NOK 35m, bank overdraft NOK 21m and term loan 11m

  • Positive operational cash flow in

Q4-17

  • Solid balance sheet to support

further growth

Balance sheet

(amounts in NOK 1 000)

31.12.2017 31.12.2016 Intangible assets 511 586 272 350 Tangible assets 9 021 3 159 Financial assets 11 040 41 829 Inventories 21 860 9 526 Accounts receivable 156 663 83 250 Other receivables 18 766 16 603 Cash and cash equivalents 35 278 81 692 T

  • tal assets

764 214 508 409 T

  • tal equity

453 441 260 294 Deferred tax 7 629

  • Non-current interest-bearing debt

23 551 12 656 Other non-current debt 22 277

  • Current interest-bearing liabilities

67 604 113 721 Accounts payable 116 431 62 050 Tax payable 4 719 9 338 Public taxes, provisions 19 403 14 007 Other current liabilities 49 160 36 342 T

  • tal equity and liabilities

764 214 508 409

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T echstep customers and user base

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Solid customer base spanning across the Nordics includes both public and private sector

Private Public

Note: This overview contains only selected customers, it is not comprehensive

Customer base

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Growth of unique end-users, opportunity in cross selling to the 34% of customers that today have hardware only

  • Organic end-user growth of ~14% in 2017

primarily driven by organic growth in solutions

  • A customer base of more than 200

thousand hardware users that potentially could become solutions users also

  • Just beginning to see effects from cross sales

that will increase ARPU

Total unique end-users base

Number of unique end-users in 1000’s

Solid user growth is a platform for future revenue and profitability growth

‘1000 users

End-users

Q3 2017 Q4 2017 618 34% +14% 23% 44% 619 23% 43% 34% 18% 573 39% 21% 20% 43% Q1 2017 Q2 2017 545 36% 45% YE 2016 38% 42% 600 Combined Hardware only Solution only

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DNB and SAS are two companies leading in digitization

Customer case

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Meny – Move from the back office to storefront

Customer case

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Storebrand – Mobile First!

Customer case

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MaaS in Health – industry specific use cases that drive the need for Techstep’s products and services

Vertical offering

  • Use case and user

driven

  • Focus on return on

investment for customer

  • Bundled and

delivered as a service (MaaS)

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Summary

▪ Spent FY17 developing offerings and preparing for growth – M&A, integration, transformation product and organisational development – taking market position ▪ ~6,000 customers today, organic growth in end-users of 14% to ~620,000 ▪ 54% organic growth in solutions revenue from FY16 to FY17. From NOK 132m (14% of revenues) in FY16 to NOK 203m (22% of revenues) in FY17 ▪ Techstep built to serve expanding market for digital workplace and mobile solutions: ▪ solid existing customer base, ▪ new solutions that we now deliver into the market, ▪ experience growing demand for our solutions, ▪ sales and delivery capacity in place

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Appendix

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Top 20 shareholders at 12 February 2018

Appendix

NAME SHAREHOLDING % SHARE DATUM AS 31 829 142 21.76% MIDDELBORG INVEST AS 29 066 931 19.87% PALOS NORGE AS 11 666 667 7.98% SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA BANKEN AB 4 991 100 3.41% CIPRIANO AS 4 651 375 3.18% SKARESTRAND INVEST AS 4 563 097 3.12% DOVRAN INVEST AS 3 763 372 2.57% JYST INVEST AS 3 763 372 2.57% TINDE INDUSTRIER AS 3 763 372 2.57% TIGERSTADEN AS 3 300 000 2.26% ZONO HOLDING AS 3 000 007 2.05% SÅ&HØSTE AS 2 925 936 2.00% TVENGE TORSTEIN INGVALD 2 700 000 1.85% NOMO HOLDING AS 1 946 253 1.33% NORDIALOG ENSJØ AS 1 946 253 1.33% UNIFIED AS 1 849 457 1.26% VERDIPAPIRFONDET DNB SMB 1 836 322 1.26% RAKNES HOLDING AS 1 649 348 1.13% SONGA TRADING INC 1 438 596 0.98% KAPPA FINANS AS 1 354 839 0.93% Total number owned by top 20 122 005 439 83.42% Other shareholders 24 246 350 16.58 % Total number of shares 146 251 789 100.00 %

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Revenue and EBITDA adjusted development Q4 2016 – Q4 2017

Financials – Pro forma P&L

Pro forma EBITDA adjusted

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

Total Pro forma revenues

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

50 100 150 200 250 300 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

%

Q4 2017 227.4 Q1 2017 267.5

+5.3%

NOKm 281.7 202.6 Q2 2017 Q3 2017 225.5 Q4 2016

Hardware % solutions Commission & bonus Solutions

3 6 9 12 15 18 10.0% 7.5% 5.0% 0.0% 2.5%

%

NOKm 13.5 16.4 11.1 12.8 Q2 2017 5.1 Q4 2017 Q4 2016 Q3 2017 Q1 2017

  • 21.4%

EBITDA adj margin EBITDA adjusted

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Revenue development in Hardware and Solution Q4 2016 – Q4 2017

Financials – Pro forma P&L

Pro forma solution revenue

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

Pro forma hardware revenue

Q4 2016 – Q4 2017, NOKm

50 100 150 200 250 177.0 Q4 2016 226.1 158.1 Q4 2017 Q3 2017 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 179.8 NOKm 218.9

Commision & bonuses Hardware

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Q4 2016 Q1 2017 48.5 Q2 2017 41.4 47.7 44.5 Q3 2017 NOKm Q4 2017 62.8

Solutions

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Management team

Appendix

Gaute Engbakk – CEO

  • Mr. Engbakk is an experienced change leader from working many years in Accenture with large international companies. He joined Techstep in November
  • 2016. In Accenture, he worked in a variety of markets and industries and built up a division within analytics and information management. Mr. Engbakk led

Creuna AS, a significant Nordic player within digital solutions, branding and advertising during 2010-2014, and during 2014-2016 he was the CEO of Gambit Hill & Knowlton Strategies.

Marius Drefvelin – CFO

  • Mr. Drefvelin joined Techstep in January 2017 and was previously the Group CFO of Creuna, a leading Nordic technology and communications

consultancy firm with 350 employees. He has been with Creuna since 2012. During 2010-2012, he was a financial advisor at Deloitte, working with mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. Before this, he worked at Jebsen Asset Management from 2007-2009. During 2001-2007, Mr. Drefvelin worked at KPMG, also working with transactions.

Mads Vårdal – Chief Innovation Officer

  • Mr. Vårdal has been with companies within the Techstep sphere for more than eleven years. He came from a central position in Teki Solutions AS and has

been a leading figure for the development of Smartworks. He has previously had a leading position in Nordialog Skøyen AS and CEO in Buskerud Tele AS.

Inge Paulsen – Chief Operations Officer

  • Mr. Paulsen is an experienced executive manager with a proven track record from companies like Clear Channel, Eltel Networks/Sønnico Tele,

Infratek/Hafslund, Implement and Accenture. His broad experience comes from heading strategic business development projects in venture businesses or turn around cases as well as holding various executive positions responsible for profit & loss.

Erik Haugen – Chief Commercial Officer

Mr Haugen is an international business professional, bringing with him broad commercial experience. He spent spent twelve years in London working with focus on sales, marketing and business management for companies like Pioneer and Sony Ericsson. Subsequently he moved into finance and professional services sales at Lindorff AS (now Intrum) in 2011 where he has been responsible for strategic sales, key account management and business development for a large portfolio of clients within telecoms, utilities, trade, SME and public sector.

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