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Chairman of the Board @Chooose
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Chairman of the Board @Chooose
Oslo, NO
a multi-prize winning Norwegian climate start-up, has opened the voluntary B2B and B2C markets for carbon credits. With you fund the best UN-verified CO2-reducing project in developing countries. We buy carbon credits from them on your behalf, tear them apart and remove them from circulation completely. The company has allready B2C customers in 40+ countries and more than 100 top brands/companies on its client list
EDUCATION
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Economics and Business Administration
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRISTIAN H THOMMESSEN
Starting his career with McKinsey & company\'s Nordics Offices in Copenhagen and Oslo, Mr. Thommessen later spent 15 years as a senior executive of multinational companies. His assignments included General Manager Norsk Hydro Notodden, Deputy CEO IBM Nordics, President & CEO of IBM Norway, General Manager Internet Services IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa out of Paris, and President & CEO of Glamox.The past 20 years Mr. Thommessen has combined his commitment to sustainability/ social impact and entrepreneurship/investments. He was Chairman of Save the Children Norway, Board member of Save the Children Global Alliance and Save the Children Germany. He was the founding Director of UNDP\'s Private Sector Division out of New York. In this capacity Mr. Thommessen and UNDP implemented progams and became a global advocate of impact investing, later becoming Vice Chair responsAbility investments AG one of the world\'s largest impact investment fund managers, while creating a Nordic market for such investments by establishing responsAbility Nordics AS. Mr. Thommessen has co-founded, invested in and/or Chaired a number of companies, especially in the venture ICT sector, of which notably Opera Software, a USD 2 billion internet software company, in disruptive tech-based companies like EVO Fitness, and climatetech ventures like and Zerolytics, as well as in real estate development with Hovedstaden Utvikling AS.Mr. Thommessen has held a number of Board and advisory positions for the EU and the Norwegian Government, e.g. as member of EU\'s e-Europe Steering Committee, Board member of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has served in the Boards of a number of Scandinavian stock listed and private companies,e.g. Tomra Systems ASA and Kistefos AS, a private investment company.Mr. Thommessen currently actively invests in and build - as co-founder/Chair/BoD member. a portfolio of impact companies; Climate-tech/ and Zerolytics, Edutech/Eduplation, Health/SPOND and EVO. He remains committed to social entrepreneurship; currently as Vice Chair at EAT Foundation, a global food systems science based advocacy organization, previously as co-founding Chairman of the Prospera Foundation engaging professionals in pro bono social entrepreneurship, and BoD member of NOAS, Norwegian Organization for Refugees and Asylumn seekers
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