The team
Johan B. Michelsen
Chief Investment Officer and Member of the Board
Work Experience:
- Founder & Partner of Hawk Infinity and Hawk Seafood
- 6 years as Deputy CEO/CFO of Ice Group
- 6 years as Partner and founder of Medici Corporate (M&A)
- Investing private money since 2008
- 4 years as Partner at SEB, consecutive ranking as #1 equity analyst all years
- 1 year at Pareto Securities from 1999 and 3 years from 2009 following sale of Medici Corporate to Pareto
- 1 year at Handelsbanken as equity analyst
- 1 year experience from The Boston Consulting Group
E-mail: jm@hawk
Marianne Michelsen
Chief Executive Officer at Hawk Infinity and Member of the Board
Work Experience:
- Founder & Partner of Hawk Infinity
- CEO in Family Investment companies since 2010
- 2 years of experience as COO and IR in the Private Equity company FSN Capital
- 8 years of experience from the financial services sector (DNB)
- 2 years of experience from The Boston Consulting Group
E-mail: mm@hawk.no
Joakim Karlsen
Partner
Work Experience:
- Founder & Partner of Hawk Seafood
- Partner at Hawk Infinity
- 3 years at Arctic Securities, Corporate Finance
- 4 years at Pareto Securities, Corporate Finance
E-mail: jk@hawk.no
Jannik Woxholth
Partner
Work Experience:
- Partner at Hawk Infinity
- Partner and 10 years’ experience at McKinsey & Company
- Deputy CEO at Katapult Accelerator
- Dual law and business degrees with INSEAD MBA and Ph.D. on shareholders’ agreements
E-mail: jw@hawk.no
Benjamin Sommer
Partner
Work Experience:
- Partner at Hawk Infinity
- 20 years of experience from tech companies as entrepreneur, investor, and board member
- Lecturer, speaker and mentor at universities, incubators, and accelerators on agile
,start-ups and business models
E-mail: benjamin@hawk.no
Emil Mellbye
Investment Director and IR Lead
- Investment Director at Hawk Infinity
- Investor Relations Lead for Hawk Infinity and Hawk Seafood
- 4 years of investment banking experience at UBS in London
- Part time work at Clarksons Platou Securities and The Economist Intelligence Unit
- Norwegian Army Officer Training School’s 2-year programme
E-mail: em@hawk.no
Even Fuglestad
Investment Director
- Investment Director at Hawk Infinity
- 2 years as responsible for strategy, business development and M&A in the Glamox Global Marine & Offshore division
- 5 years in management consulting with a strong track-record in strategy and business development projects, and exploration of new technologies and business models
- Experience from «management for hire»-roles with responsibility to develop and grow XaaS-business models, in particular from the telecom and utilities industries
E-mail: ef@hawk.no
Ingebrikt Bjørkhaug
Chief Financial Officer
- 3 years of management for hire (mostly Hawk-related)
- Interim CFO of Aega ASA
- Interim CFO of Gabler Investments
- Interim CFO of Convene Group
- 5 years of experience from EY, Manager at Transaction Advisory Services
E-mail: ib@hawk.no
Mats Troeng
Chief Technical Officer
- Appr. 20 years as software developer and consultant
- 7 years as software engineer and architect at Knowit
- Founder of several sports software applications
- Former national team runner in orienteering (Sweden)
- Civilingeniør, Uppsala University
E-mail: mt@hawk.no
Board
Nils Arne Bakke
Chairman of the Board
- Close partner with Hawk Infinity in many holdings
- 5 years as CEO of Altibox
- Ph.D. in industrial economics, NTNU
Sverre Brott
Member of the Board
- Represents the current largest external investor, Gasmann Invest AS
- Background from the Norwegian real estate market through more than 20 years as CEO of his real estate company currently named Gasmann Eiendom AS
- Educated as civil engineer
- 13 years as a consulting engineer in construction technology
- Gasmann has been a shareholder in Hawk Infinity since foundation and was incremental in the establishment of the structure
Roland Rabben
Member of the Board
- Founder and CEO of Jotta Group since its inception in 2008
- 20+ years of experience from building Jotta Group and other internet services and start-ups: Scala, StreamBase Technologies and Firstmover
