ArcticPodden

SATS wants to make people healthier and happier! CEO Sondre Gravir believes the pandemic has made people more aware of a healthy lifestyle. He is NOT afraid of the competition from Peloton – but he does worry Gaute is not using his SATS gym membership enough!

Now ranked #12 in the world he is the best tennis player in the world of all time from Norway. Arctic Ambassador Casper Ruud gives us an insight in how he prepares for a match, his favourite players to meet on the court and what his superstitions are!

Mats Zuccarello is one of eight players from Norway to play in the NHL, and the most successful. And he is also an Arctic Ambassador. He is living the NHL dream, but hockey was never Zucca's dream profession…. Neither is hockey manager, nor hedge fund manager. Zucca tells all in this episode of ArcticPodden!

Lytix Biopharma CEO Øystein Rekdal has a black belt and world championship title in martial arts. Exactly what is needed in his company’s vision to cure cancer? Patience, determination and international ambitions - as well as support from Nobel Prize winner and harmonica player Jim Allison!

Sanity makes sense of content! You will never lose your head with Sanity’s Headless content management system. CEO Magnus K. Hillestad learned a lot when he used to work for Arctic. Now he is running a tech start-up from Silicon Valley and just completed a series-B financing round, bigger than many Euronext Growth IPOs. But what is Magnus planning next…?

GOLAR LNG CEO Karl Fredrik Staubo is among the youngest CEOs on Nasdaq, but Golar has been transporting cleaner, cheaper, natural gas for decades! Hear about the future of LNG transportation, and how Karl Fredrik teaches Gaute the difference between heating and cooling gas!

Bulk Founder and COB Peder Nærbø tells us how to get Amazon, Google and Facebook as partners.. from the small town of VENNESLA! It all started with a mission to reduce logistics-related pollution in Oslo! Norway proves data centers don't have to cost the Earth.

Jens Rugseth is the Chairman and/or lead investor in a number of Oslo-listed tech companies including Crayon, Link Mobility, Sikri, Cyviz and Techstep. Is it his “two wives” that is the secret to his success? How can he find time to roll out Oche the darts bar chain and PetXL the pet store .. and why did neither Rugseth nor enough other Norwegian investors, in his view, make money from Visma?

Flyr CEO Tonje Wikstrøm Frislid talks about why you launch an airline during a global pandemic. Flyr's team is ready to capitalize on a gap in the market as the world is slowly reopening. Tonje believes founding an airline afresh will allow them to recalibrate the idea of what an airline should offer. Flyr is ready for take-off!

Gyrid Skalleberg Ingerø has been the CFO of Kongsberg Gruppen since 2017 and taken the company through a transformational acquisition, from rights issue to extraordinary dividends! Next up? The landmark spin-out IPO of Kongsberg DIGITAL?

 Zwipe CEO André Løvestam is benefitting from changed payment and HYGIENE habits. There is a revolution about to happen for card payments and Andre first heard about this... guess where, it was from a firm starting with an A...

Hear how many AirTAGS the Chairman of Nordic Semiconductor has bought... what he learned from the spectacular Scandinavian Online journey 20+ years ago.. and which financial firm he would rather be on the Board of...? It starts with an A...

XXL CEO Pål Wibe is the KING of retail and has been through a roller-coaster first year in his job at XXL! Will owning several pairs of skis and bikes make you more sustainable? Or are you just contributing to consumerism and waste? Pål Wibe dives into his vision for XXL and explains why his background as a footballer formed his expertise on working capital.

Norske Skog, a company with a colorful past, is on a transformational journey. The future step in this journey is replacing oil components with wood components, making the world less reliant on fossil fuels. So how does wood from a Norwegian forest contribute to a greener world? And why can we compare CEO Sven Ombudstvedt to Elon Musk or Frank Sinatra? Listen to ArcticPodden to find out what he ha...

Clean energy has a dirty secret – you can make money on it! Cognite CEO thinks the green shift is presented as a false dilemma: climate or jobs, saving the planet or making money. You don’t go green with red numbers. Cognite is proof you can do both. Cognite is still planning "an Aker style" IPO.. but the initial growth capital came from Accel in Silicon Valley... Why did John Markus not agree to...

AIRTHINGS CMO Lauren Pedersen is passionate about the air that we breathe! Arctic's offices may need her indoor air quality monitor! But who is Stanley Watras? This is the story of "The Radon Raiders" and how they are turning peril into profit.

Mr Sivertsen is the CEO of the greenest company that ever visited the podcast / that Gaute ever came across / that will make the desert green again! ... But what does that have to do with Stavanger sand and surfing?

Ørjan Svanevik is the CEO of Arendals Fossekompani, a 125 year old company that has done two spin-offs, Tekna and Volue, in the last 6 months! Arendal is well and truly BACK IN BUSINESS... but there is a place in northern England Ørjan would rather be...?

Bank Norwegian CEO Tine Wollebekk has the speed of a fintech, the strength of a bank.... and the profitability per employee of a FAANG!

The most profitable company CEO visiting the Arctic Podcast so far does not KID around when it comes to profits and sustainability. He does not dare to guess how many pillows he has at home, but knows where he bought them!

Hear why there are no panels on her roof just yet.. and why she may be the European version of (Sunrun founder) Lynn Jurich!

MELTWATER is Norway's first real tech unicorn! Founder Jørn Lyseggen started with only two men, a coffee machine, and $15,000 in startup capital. Jørn tells Arctic Podcast host Gaute about the journey so far and his plans to make Meltwater "MER" iconic!

Aker BioMarine CEO Matts Johansen tells Arctic podcast host Gaute he would "rather be Tony Hawk than Kjell Inge Røkke"... and accepts a challenge which he fears more than his past dog-mushing adventures!

NEL CEO Jon-Andre Løkke is the most famous Norwegian CEO..... in Germany! How is hydrogen unlocking the potential of renewables? Arctic podcast host Gaute wonders what happened to hydrogen cars, and when will we fly hydrogen planes?

The Arctic Kahoot! Quiz Podcast! Arctic's podcast host Gaute steps outside his comfort zone (that's where the magic happens) hosting a Kahoot! quiz in English with Kahoot! CEO Eilert Hanoa!