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Ståle Bjørnstad is the CEO of Cxense, and responsible for driving the company towards its mission of understanding better than anyone what people want, and delivering the most relevant user experiences online.

Ståle has extensive experience from several financial institutions, such as Handelsbanken Capital Markets, where he most recently was Head of Corporate Finance, and Head of Equities prior to that. Ståle has also held key roles in DnB NOR Markets and Alfred Berg Norge.

Ståle has degrees from Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), the Norwegian School of Economics, and Johannes Kepler Universität Linz in Austria, in international trade.

Email: staale dot bjornstad at cxense dot com

As the CFO, Jørgen Loeng is responsible for accounting, financial projections, performance measurement and improvements, as well as investor communication. Prior to Cxense, Jørgen was a partner at the management consulting and investment firm, Cardo Partners, where he lead a number of profit improvement programs, as well as strategy advisory and commercial due-diligence projects. He has also worked as a Corporate Finance associate in the Danske Bank Group where he worked with financial modeling, valuation , M&A and public listings.

Jørgen holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Email: jorgen dot loeng at cxense dot com

Tom is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Cxense, responsible for the strategic development of Cxense’s product portfolio, working closely with both the engineering and commercially-oriented teams. Prior to becoming CPO at Cxense, Tom was GM for Cxense North America after Cxense’s acquiston of the Ramp Media business where he served as CEO of Ramp.

Prior to Ramp, Tom has held roles including SVP/GM of the Consumer Division at NameMedia, senior vice president and general manager of MIVA Inc.’s North American division, responsible for both MIVA’s U.S. online advertising network as well as the company’s consumer business, and senior operating roles managing Terra Lycos’ global search & publishing divisions. 

Tom has also served on the IAB Search Engine Committee and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Email: tom dot wilde at cxense dot com

As Chief Operating Officer, Vigleik leads the global sales team and the team responsible for getting our customers successfully onboarded to the Cxense platform. His organisation also provides Support and Best Practice consulting services to our customers across the world.

Before joining Cxense, Vigleik was Senior Manager in PwC Consulting leading the Supply Chain Management area which consisted of 15-20 consultants. He has extensive experience, and a proven track record within lean transformations and operational improvements for various companies.

Vigleik holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Email: vigleik dot takle at cxense dot com

As Senior Vice President, Business Development, and GM Japan, Ryoichi Egawa leads Cxense Japan. He is charged with building the company into the leading provider of online cloud-based monetization services in the market.

Before joining Cxense, Egawa had more than 10 years of experience in leadership roles in the software industry. Most recently, Egawa was Director of Sales at FAST and, subsequently, in the Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft. Before this he served as Sales Director in Autonomy and Field Alliance Manager in IBM Japan. Egawa also has experience in IT consulting at Oracle.

Egawa holds a Master’s degree in Information Science and Education from Shiga University.

Email: ryoichi dot egawa at cxense dot com

Dan Gesser is Senior Vice President of Sales for Cxense in North America.

Prior to joining Cxense, Dan was the North America Sales Leader for Customer Analytics at IBM. Dan joined IBM with the 2013 acquisition of the mobile customer engagement start-up, Xtify. He built and led the sales organization for Xtify and was responsible for new customer engagements, working closely with the C-Suite of companies from Coca-Cola to the U.S. Federal Government.

Dan is an experienced and innovative digital marketer with a proven track record of building engagement and ROI in B2B and B2C environments.

As SVP Global Engineering , Øyvind Hopsnes is responsible for managing a globally distributed engineering organization that implements and operates the Cxense products and services, and executes the company’s defined technology strategy. His particular focus is on ensuring service engineering excellence through developing processes and best practices for a leading service organization.

Prior to joining Cxense, Øyvind held various engineering manager roles for Microsoft Office delivering Delve and Search to SharePoint and Exchange in Office 2010 and 2013, and helped take SharePoint from an on-premise solution to a full service offering. Prior to that, Øyvind has broad experience ranging from building core network for a Telco to delivering business critical applications for customers across Europe.

Øyvind holds a MSc degree in computer science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Simon works as Senior Vice President (SVP) of Engineering at Cxense Russia and leads several Engineering teams. Before Cxense’s acquisition of Maxifier, Volman served as VP of Engineering at Maxifier responsible for technical leadership, product roadmap and development.

Prior to Maxifier Simon Volman was associated with Magenta Technology, where he built and launched more than ten technical projects in various problem domains.

Simon holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology from Samara State Aerospace University and is the author of more than 20 articles on an array of technical topics, including knowledge management, business intelligence and data mining.