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

Håvard Lillebo

Rubrik

Heading Pune Site for Rubrik India. Building the Pune Engineering Team. 
Hiring Engineers with 8 to 13 years' experience in system software.

Pune Site Lead

SecureThings

Fractional Engineering Leadership - Guiding and advising on various aspects of Engineering including Product Architecture/Design, Processes, Org Design.

Senior Vice President of Engineering

API Securist

Played advisory role for API Securist from its early days.

Advisor

Diamanti

Building High Performance Hyperconverged Storage appliance and Software for Kubernetes (Datacenter, cloud)
-	Built and released our 1st version of K8s storage solution on AWS, GCP, which also runs on VMware and Baremetal in Datacenters (Private Cloud).
-	Rebuilt the storage team
-	Introduced in product licensing with trial, subscription and perpetual license
-	Worked on a multi-cluster management product
-	Wearing multiple hats at this startup – Engineering leader, PM, Architect
-	Bringing the rigor in software development

VP of Engineering

Veritas Technologies LLC

NBU, Data Protection and Governance Engineering (DPGE) - flagship product with $800M annual revenues
-	As part of leadership team, led NetBackup(NBU) development team of 200+ in Pune. 
-	Focus was on backup/restore of VMWare, Hyper-V, RH Virtualization (KVM), MongoDB, Cassandra, AzureStack, Nutanix, OpenStack, NAS, Deduplication to Cloud, telemetry, Security and Core Netbackup areas. 
-	Delivered 3 content rich NBU releases while improving product supportability which included support for following new workloads: OpenStack, Azurestack, MongoDB, Nutanix, Redhat Virtualization, and D-NAS. These new workloads will drive the revenue growth towards $1B.
-	Delivered 2 releases for Backup Exec and transitioned leadership to a different business unit.

Sr. Director, Development

BE, VSR (Backup and Recovery Group - BnR) - SMB focused, Backup/DR products, $140M revenues
-	Led the agile transformation and moved from an 18 months cadence to delivering 10 releases in 3 years with 200+ team
-	Improved product quality resulting in customer escalations to an all-time low.
-	Revived the product with new features and integration
-	Ensured Backup Exec remains at the forefront in SMB data protection for cloud, virtual and physical.

Symantec

BE CFT, SSR, BE. Cloud Engineering (Backup and Recovery Group - BnR) 	
-	Led the global engineering team of 115 for Backup Exec CFT (Sustenance Engg), Symantec System Recovery, and BE. Cloud.  
-	Established a quarterly cadence of BE maintenance releases which solved customer issues and provided timely platform support.

Backup Exec Group (Information Management Group - IMG)	
-	Focused on SME market products with a team of 240. Backup Exec (BE) was part of the BE product line which was the leader in SME market. Other major product was Symantec System Recovery (SSR). SSR was entirely delivered from India 
-	Managed multiple releases for BE and SSR. One of them was a complex BE release to add Windows 8/2012 support done in parallel for 2 code-lines/trunks by about 175 engineers in US and India.

Data Protection Group (DPG) having 1.3B USD business & NetBackup with 800M USD business 
-	Transitioned SSR product development from US to India (100+ engineers) which became the 3rd important product in DPG India portfolio.
-	Led a team of about 370 engineers (33% of the global team)
-	Key focus area was to improve communication across sites at multiple levels and improve the maturity of teams. Was also responsible for integration of common components team which was then merged into the Netbackup engineering team.

Backup Exec Group (Security and Data Management Group) - 400M $ product line  
-	Built a matured development team of 70 and laid a foundation for future product transitions while contributing to existing product releases.

Sr. Director, Developme

Information Foundation Group (Security and Data Management Group) (formerly called Enterprise Messaging Management Group) 	
-	Led multiple teams (150) focused on Information Risk Management. As part of this group, led archiving (Enterprise Vault/SE), and security (Symantec Mail Security for Domino, Symantec Web Security, IM Manager, and Symantec Scan Engine) products.
-	Ramped up the Enterprise Vault team and delivered 2 releases - Enterprise Vault was the market leader in Data archiving.

SME Group (Data Management Group)	
-	Transitioned Storage Exec (SE) product development from US to India. Grew the team from 13 people to 40+ over few months. SE was a SRM product on windows platform which provides reporting, file blocking and quota management.
-	With VERITAS merging with Symantec in 2005, merged SE with Enterprise Vault (EV) - FSA which is an archival Product.

Director, Development

Veritas Software India PrivateLimited.

Products included Volume Manager (VM), Clustered VM, SAN VM and Switch based VM.
-	Moved into management role and grew the team of 30 to 100. Instrumental in setting up the first dedicated escalations team in the company.
-	Led 3 complex components of VM/CVM:
	DMP - Dynamic Multi-Pathing: This component alone is responsible for buying decisions of more than 50% of the customers. 
	FMR - Fast Mirror Resync (FlashSnap) – Instant Snapshot capability
	Allocator (Intelligent Storage Provisioning - ISP) – Intent aware allocations. This was an early version of Software Defined Storage.
-	Initiated multiple research prototypes which later became part of the product – one of the more innovative one was supporting online upgrades for VM.

Senior Manager

Implemented Rolling Upgrade support for Clustered VM (CVM) and other capabilities for Veritas Cluster Volume Manager.

Individual Contributor

Sun Microsystems

In the initial few months worked at Wipro office in Cupterino for SUN providing technical support for ISVs developing device drivers on the Solaris platform, and/or porting drivers from SUNOS to Solaris.
Subsequently for about 1.5 years worked as Escalation engineer at SUN's Menlo Park campus as a contractor through Wipro. The responsibilities were debugging and fixing issues in Solaris/SunOS OS/Kernel.

Contractor (Sr. Engineer and Software Specialist at Wipro)

Wipro Infotech

Part of Workstations group. Was responsible for writing multiple device drivers on SUNOS/Solaris.

Sr. Software Engineer

An astute leader building world-class products, growing teams and delivering exceptional business results. Fostering innovation by challenging the status quo and encouraging new thinking (for process as well as technology).

I am a Senior IT professional valued for my strong strategic technical leadership and innovative mindset. I am passionate about innovation/R&D and I strive to build innovative culture in my team. Being a hands-on manager and visionary technical leader, I have a natural flair for being able to combine problem-solving with creativity and communication while developing, directing, and leading teams.

Driving large teams ranging from 100 to 350+ across US and India.

Over two decades of my career, I have proven record of accomplishments in:
Developing Product strategy | Roadmap | Patenting new technologies | Product releases | Developing future leaders | Innovation | Cross-functional Leadership | Agile | Waterfall.
 
I have delivered key capabilities in:
Data Protection, DR, Backup, Storage Management, Clustering, Virtualization, Archival, E-Discovery, Security. 

Currently building Storage and Management products for Kubernetes environments at Diamanti.com which   is solving the persistent storage problems for customers running high performance apps in Kubernetes clusters.

During my last stint @ Veritas, I worked in the capacity of Engineering Leader (part of leadership team) for Veritas’ flagship product. Supervised a team of ~200 as part of Netbackup Engineering (800M USD annual revenues).

About me:
I am a technologist at heart and actively research to enrich my insights for discussions with peers, customers, and technical teams that I interact with. I believe in leadership style that focuses on transparency, listening, and providing a sense of direction to the team. Driven by the belief that the front-line employees are key and the leader is a steward who works with the team by asking the right questions and not by telling them how. 

Learning about diet, weight loss and health are areas of my extracurricular interests.

Available for discussion on vivekvgupta@yahoo.com

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