Leadership advisor. Executive coach. Tech founder on a mission to add life to people's years.

With over 20 years leading teams in global investment banking and hedge funds, I bring deep expertise in banking, derivatives, trading, risk management, and institutional finance.

Today, I lead the IZUN GROUP with a mission to democratize access to next-generation financial products - leveraging blockchain, DeFi, and digital asset infrastructure to build inclusive, user-centric solutions for both retail and institutional markets.

I thrive at the convergence of traditional finance (TradFi) and Web3, and bring a strategic focus on:

Digital Asset Strategy & Tokenized Finance

Crypto Derivatives Trading & Market Structure

Fintech Product Innovation & Go-to-Market

Institutional-Grade Risk & Governance

I’m passionate about building the financial systems of tomorrow - secure, transparent, and universally accessible.

Gilles Dahan

LazeraH

Creating clean energy with anti-matter 😊🤩 Let’s change energy in the world!

Founder & Board Member

Nanize AS

The WORLD’S most slippery material! Coefficient of friction as low as 0,008 demonstrated. 

Nanize develops PFAS-free, functional, durable, and cost-effective nanocoatings for clients in various industries. Our aim is to revolutionize the coating industry with 2 patented, and 3 patent-pending technologies. World-class team with David Hogg as CEO, and Kingsley Iwu as CTO and cofounder. Funded with €3m.

Founder & CFO

Havguard AS

Deeptech defence startup: Solving underwater communication and redefining the state of the art.

CoFounder, Chairman of the board, CFO

Shama AI

Anti-AI for voice. Real-time detection of deepfake voice and speech. With a brilliant team. Lead by Dr. Angie Qarry, who has worked with 2 Nobel Prize winners in Physics.

CoFounder & CFO

Businessizer AS

Drive365

The modern digital way to work based on 2024 tech, not 2010. Using Microsoft Digital workplace, best security and best platforms for managing subscriptions. Awesome successful team with big exit from previous company. The name says it all: DRIVE365!! 😊

Chairman of the Board

Triway AS

Triway is a really cool engineering company! A senior engineering team is now working with developing robots, 3D printing, mechanical and electrical engineering. We prototype, and we produce small and medium scale products, often developed by the team. We have 6 industrial 3D printers and we use them more or less 24/7. The largest one ordered now can print up to 1,2 m3 in the dimensions: 100 cm X 100 cm X 120 cm - which may be Norway´s largest 3D printer? (if you know of any larger, please message me immediately! :)

Chairman of the Board - Engineering company in Sandnessjøen 

Asistobe AS

Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to optimize the DeepMath problem of how to plan and organize public transport in a better way. We can do 15-25% lower operational costs AND 10-15% more passengers transported, AND a better customer experience! All data-driven decisions, mapping and predicting demand (As Is) and matching with optimal supply (To Be). Really awesome team!

Board Member and CoFounder

Watbots

An autonomous robot company, bringing the fish farming industry to the next level on sustainability and value creation. I founded the company and managed the first few years of the development  of the next generation AUTONOMOUS AI-powered robots for the fish farming industry. Unique IP with multiple patents. Funded with €3,2m. Situated in Sandnessjøen.

Founder, owner, ex-CEO

Nordic Electrofuel

Nordic Blue Crude has gone all the way from an exciting idea to a professional company. I formed the company together with Rolf Bruknapp, and he and a professional team lead by Gunnar Holen have shown great execution power! I am proud to be part of this journey being on the board for all these years. NBC ended up being a good exit for me, and the company is today in the hands of competent management and an experienced board. I wish them all success going forward, and I will continue to cheer for you! :)

CoFounder and Board Member

Raised $140m in Funding | 2 exits | Serial Entrepreneur for 21 years | I love to identify and work on worthy problems with brilliant people | Dad to 2 Kids

👋 I’ve started and funded many businesses over the last 22 years and I find that I love doing this. 😀

The energy, enthusiasm, challenges, pitches, Funding, and the ups and downs, working on taking risks down, creating value, verifying the hypothesis as fast as possible, and building great teams with « people that want to do things. » 

I love learning new things, especially about technologies and innovations. Often seeking answers to good business problems solve: « Love the problem, not the solution! »

Most of the time, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with excellent people. People I admire and that I can learn from. People that are much smarter than me. People with integrity. (Yes, learning also the hard way with some exceptions of some rotten apples....🙈)

I’ve worked with world-class VC investors like NorthZone Ventures for 8 years after I founded Innotech Solar AS in 2008. For Innotech Solar alone, the funding was: €52M in equity, €25M in debt, and €13M in grants. 8 years of top management experience growing the company from my idea to 180 employees and €35M revenue 3 years after launch. It was an exciting journey and a hard battle! I learned a lot! 😀

These are the companies I am involved with at the moment:

Founder of LazeraH - producing energy with anti-matter (Einstein´s E=mc^2 converting mass to clean energy)
Founder and CFO of Nanize AS - the most slippery material in the world (kind of like Teflon - just much better)
Cofounder and Chairman of Drive365 – IT platform for modern work for 50-3,000 employee companies
Cofounder of Havguard - AI-powered disruptive underwater communications
CoFounder of Shama AI - AI-powered real-time detection of deep fake voice

I post typically weekly for insights from my startup journey and the real behind-the-scenes of starting up these companies.

I really look forward to engaging with interested founders, and investors, and exciting the people in my network. 

Hit the [🔔] on my profile and ➕follow me if you want to be notified about my postings.

Please feel free to send me an invitation to connect. 😀

Reach me here:
📧 hl@businessizer.com
☎️+47 99 62 41 40

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