Expert
Biography
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Olavur
Ellefsen, MBA
ICT
Experimentation & On-line Simulation
Expertise:
development of simulation-based training concepts, e-learning
& e-training, serial entrepreneurship in high-tech
Industries:
mobile telecom & Wi-Fi, software, training &
coaching, oil & gas, e-government
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Olavur is the chairman of the Faroese IT Industry Association,
which has all Faroese IT companies as members, and is one
of the directors and board members of the innovative Bitland
Enterprise, which aims to make the Faroe Islands the European
Centre of ICT Excellence and Experimentation.
He
has founded and co-founded a number of IT and telecom companies.
Examples
include an outsourcing, training and software development
company, a company providing WiFi access in Tórshavn
(capital of the Faroe Islands), and KALL,
the second largest telecom operator in the Faroe Islands.
He
is currently CEO of Simprentis,
an innovative world-wide provider of courses based on computer
simulations. Examples include "Dynamics of Project Management"
and "Risks and Challenges of Petroleum Exploration".
He has a Masters degree in Business Administration and Computer
Science from Copenhagen
Business School (1994).
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