Kjell Ivar was the Co-Founder and CEO/President of Catch Communication ASA, a public company listed on OSE and sold 2005.  Catch was awarded as winner of Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA-region competition with a revenue growth of 77.000 % over 5 yrs (2000-2005).  He has more than 20 years of experience from the TMT industry, running and managing both national and international projects.

He has been working with set up of international  corporations in the Nordics and Middle East, and has more then 10 year investment experience in startups.  Currently Kjell Ivar serves as CoB of Kysttele AS, a fibre company operating 1.200 km of submarine cables in Norway.  Kjell Ivar has a bachelor in computer science and the Telenor Master of Management program.