Ola Forsstrom-Olsson ()

Ola has over ten years as an entrepreneur and eight as a professional handball player, including in the EHF Champions League with a top five team. Ola works for Innovation Norway in New York and has since early 2000s helped hundreds of companies scale internationally in a sustainable and financially stable way.

With degrees in Engineering Physics and Medicine from Lund University, he specialises in applied mathematics. Ola founded and led a venture-backed bioinformatics company, licensing its technology to a NASDAQ-listed firm in 2010. He's contributed to defining standards for protein data informatics in Nature Biotechnology.

"The large amounts of experiences and observations I have accumulated over the years, both in my own founder journey 2000 - 2010, but also from working with companies in all industries trying to scale, has allowed me to develop a way of thinking around what tends to transition a company from the tinkering phase (startup) to a potential scaling phase.", Ola Forsström-Olsson