bandit app

A new Social commerce app enabling consumers to buy directly from producers, in groups.

+ ranked #1 shopping app on the App Store and Play Store
+ reached 20 000+ users with almost no advertising spend
+ Built with Nordic's leading venture builder, Askeladden & Co

Reveal the magic of the deal.

COO & Co-founder

Foundraisr

Investor strategy, pipeline management and narrative consulting agency for funds and startups.

+ Delivered consultancy services to 40+ start ups, venture funds and venture builders worldwide

Owner

Mykle Advisory

Offering investments, active ownership, and consulting services.

Services:
• Agile team structure setup
• Product Management
• CRM setup
• Growth strategy
• Board advisory
• Fundraising pipeline and strategy
• No code tool advisory
• Process automation
• Strategic narrative
... and similar within general business operations and business development

Holdings:
Revolut, Clerkie, fácil (exited), Astat (now Doughnut), Gobi Stories, Chainlink (token), UBT (token)

Astat

Astat is the go-to solution to help creators and freelancers stay on top of their projects. We're combining a smart Visa card with an innovative invoicing tool to create an easy to understand overview over work expenses and payments that are due from clients.

More and more people are doing gig-work on the side or quitting their traditional jobs to pursue their dream. Their banking should be easy, seamless and integrate with their daily lives. Astat is here to help this group focus on what they do best, their daily business, and spend less time on financial administration.

+ Built a fully digital card solution geared towards helping the SME segment in less than 8 months and for under 500 000 euros

+ Leading the development team to build a customer friendly, secure and versatile banking product

+ Responsible for everything related to commercial strategy and execution and working closely with the sales and marketing team to create a powerful growth funnel

+ Recognitions:

* Mastercard Lighthouse People's Choice Award
* University of Oxford Creative Destruction Lab
* Huawei AppsUp: Best app in Europe
* Abu Dhabi Fintech 100
* TheFactory Accelerator

CCO, Head of Product, Co-founder

+ Part of the Fintech Squad in Risk Advisory Services, Financial Services.

+ Acting as a strategic advisor on emerging technology for clients within the banking and financial services industry.

+ Clients include Norway's biggest banks, payment facilitators and finance institutions

Management Consultant

Revolut

Revolut is one app for all things money. We are building the world’s first truly global financial super-app. In 2015, Revolut launched in the UK offering money transfer and exchange. Today, our customers around the world use dozens of Revolut’s innovative products to make more than 100 million transactions a month.

+ First hire in the Nordics. Launched and led the Norwegian and Nordic Markets from inception to over 100 000 users.

+ Co-started and Product Owner of the Global Pioneer Programme, one of the three main growth engagement programmes designed to expand Revolut internationally.

+ Keynote speaker with a focus on finance and tech related topics. Examples of previous events: DN Fintech 2018, Distressed Investments Forum Berlin 2018, Betalingsformidling 2019, SvD Bank Summit 2019. Also holding growth masterclasses at schools like Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), BI Norwegian Business School and many more.

Country Manager, Product Owner

Testr Medical

Built a start-up in the medical sector aiming to disrupt the testing industry of the global health issue, diabetes. Went to prototyping stage with positive results.

+ Led the team from ideation to a formal business plan, financial model and prototype development
+ Created visual presentation and pitched multiple times in front of experienced entrepreneurs
+ Developed a strategy and target

Co-Founder and Managing Director

TEDxHultLondon

Co-led a team of 25 volunteers to create a TEDx conference in central London on the top floor of the iconic building, "The Cheesegrater" on April 28 2018.

TEDxHultLondon was an event licensed by TED Global and ran by students from the Hult International Business School Postgraduate Campus in London. The event hosted 100 participants and 11 talented speakers in a full day event, aiming to alter the way we think about a range of topics.

Our speakers:
+ Teemu Arina - Chief Biohacker and Chairman of the Board of Biohacker Centre
+ Mariana Bontempo - Project Manager at Applied Blockchain 
+ Kydd Boyle - Managing Director at Horizons Next Gen 
+ Mark Godfrey - Senior International Curator at the Tate Modern 
+ Margareta James - Director of Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic
+ Viktor Matre - Deputy Board Member of Amnesty International Norway
+ Praveetha Patalay - Lecturer of Population Mental Health at University of Liverpool 
+ Samineh Shaheem - Dean of Hult London Graduate Programs
+ Stephen Shanley - Philanthropist, completed a 3,000 mile solo row across the Atlantic
+ Perry Timms - Founder of People & Transformational HR Ltd. 
+ Trudi West - Program Director at Ashridge Executive Education

Organiser

S/Y Solskinn

Year-long sailing project with four friends travelling from Norway through Europe down to Morocco. Across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean and up to the US before heading back to Norway via the Azores.

+ Worked in collaboration with the Norwegian NGO, Project Haiti, to raise funds to build a new health clinic on the island.
+ Secured sponsorship for the project from individuals as well as corporates which resulted in making a donation of $18k USD for the construction of the health clinic.
+ Covered 15k nautical-miles with four friends to achieve the desired outcome.
+ The clinic opened in November 2017 and has the capacity to serve up to 300 people per day from one of Haiti´s most deprived communities.

Key take aways: Leadership, organization, crowdfunding, planning, building relationships, scenario planning

Vice-Captain and Charity Project Lead

Fluid Net AS

Introducing new participants to the amazing sport of kitesurfing through teaching techniques and facilitating the safe and responsible behaviour necessary to participate in the sport.

Kitesurfing Instructor

COO @ bandit | Follow for fundraising, e-commerce, fintech | Ex-Revolut, Ex-PwC

Tech professional with positions ranging from intrapreneurship in Europes fastest growing technology company, consulting in one of the Big 4 and co-founding a start ups within the SME banking industry and e-commerce.

Available as a keynote speaker with a focus on finance and tech related topics. Previous event examples: DN Fintech, Distressed Investments Forum Berlin, Betalingsformidling Trondheim, SvD Bank Summit Stockholm, InfoShare Gdansk.

For consultation requests the easiest place to reach me is by phone: +47 480 02 549
Other contact: myklebust.espen@gmail.com

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