Knut-Erik Nord is a Financial Manager at Vizada Networks Group in Drammen, Norway. He has over 25 years of experience in finance, logistics, and sales roles. Most recently, from 2010 to present, he has been responsible for financial analysis, reporting, and business analysis for Vizada Networks Group. Prior to that, from 2008 to 2009, he was the Financial Manager of Vizada Networks AS, where he oversaw accounting. He enjoys outdoor activities like hiking, cross-country skiing, and swimming with his family.

1. Knut-Erik Nord
Olaf Bergersvei 39, 3022 Drammen, NORWAY
Phone: +47 995 67 398, E-mail: knuterik.nord@gmail.com
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/knuteriknord
Personal
Status: Married, 2 children (9 and 3 years old)
Army service done from April 1989 to April 1990
Born on the 18th of July 1968
Experience
Financial Manager – Vizada Networks Group 01.01.10-present
Responsible for financial analysis, control and consolidation of the VN Group financial figures, consisting of
several business enties (Norway, Netherlands, Czech republic, Slovak republic and a small subsidary in
France).
I am overall responsible for financial reporting, consolidation and business analysis of entities within the VN
Group. In addition I do a lot of business analysis, marked segment analysis, revenue/cogs/OpEx/Capex
analysis. I make the monthly management report and several presentations used for further analysis of the
Vizada Networks Group
Financial Manager – Vizada Networks AS 01.01.08-31.12.09
Overall responsible for the accounts of Vizada Networks AS. Vizada Networks AS was previously registered as
Taide Network AS (Taide). Taide was a part of Telenor Satellite Services which was bought by APAX partners
in 2007. Taide then had a name change to Vizada Networks AS of 01.07.08, and the company (also within
the same group) named Vizada Networks AS, changed name to Vizada VSAT AS.
Vizada Networks AS is located in the small city of Holmestrand, approximately 1 hour drive from Oslo. The
main businesses are Managed IP (mainly delivered via satellite) and Voice solutions. We deliver almost all
our services in Africa and in the Middle East. The number of FTE’s is as per 17th of May ’09 39 persons. 3 of
these (in addition to myself) are organized in the Finance department, which is run by me.
The main responsibilities of the Finance department is bookeeping, following up payments from customers,
paying vendors, reporting (monthend, year end, cash reports, etc), making forecasts, putting together the
budget for approval rounds in the management group and finally in the board, and of course performing
continues revenue/cogs/OpEx analysis. One of the persons under my responsibilty is dedicated to operating
the switchboard. One is mainly working with the AR, and one is a senior accountant-
Manager Carrier Relations / Voice Controller – Taide Network AS 01.04.07-31.12.07
This position was a combined posistion where I kept my previous tasks and responisbilties, and added on the
responsibilty of expanding the number of interconnects, developing relations with carriers and also being a
member of the management group represeting the voice area of Taide. This period represented a major
change in carrier stragtegy where we went from a single carrier strategy to a strategy which ment
interconnecting with many major players, and playing out our unique competetive advantage in three
African countries. This resulted in a huge increase in both revenues and gross margin – both in terms of
money and gross margin percentage.

2. Voice Controller- Taide Network AS 01.10.04-31.03.07
I was responsible for a number of tasks related to the voice area of the business, organized in the business
operations department. The main tasks and responsibilties were:
Controlling minute cost lists
Creating a least cost routing table (LCR)
Creating minute pricelist
Invoicing
Revenue analysis
Creating the monthly voice report
Area Sales Manager - Taide Network AS 01.11.00-30.09.04
I started selling Managed IP services via satellite in Ukraine. Then, after having more than doubled that
market, I got he responsibilty of western Africa – with special focus on Nigeria. I have landed several
contracts and travelled all over western Africa, mostly in Nigeria, Angola, Ghana and Guinea. During my
time as ASM I have met decision makers and business stakeholders on all levels of the organisations, all from
the small one-man company ISP to CEO’s and CTO’s in big African telco’s. Amongst the success stories in
this field, is a very big Angolan operator, a big bandwidth reseller in Guinea, a previous partner of SierraTel in
Sierra Leone and at that time the biggest internet cafe in Lagos in Nigeria.
Sr Logistics Resposible – Telenor Satellite Services AS 01.11.96-31.10.00
Responsible for logistics operations in Telenor Satellite Services. This was a new function in an organisation
that was both new and rapidly growing. Early in this position I changed our main logistical partner from
Nedlloyd in Czech Republic to Circle in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. The target of this was to reduce lead
times and increase service level and precision of our deliveries, which we indeed reached very fast.
Controller – Stabburet AS (Orkla Foods) 01.07.95-31.10.96
Responsible for following up cost saving projects, production statistics, key performance indicators and
presenting this in the management group at the production plant. The production plant is one of the largest
in Norway, producing hamburgers, canned food, sausages and more.
Logistics Consultant/Production planning – Stabburet AS 01.07.94-30.06.95
After finishing my 4 year education at the Norwegian School of Management, I started working at
Stabburet, mainly with production planning for 2 (out of 5) production departments. One of these were a
typical industrial line production, and the other a more complex man-hour intensive department.
Various pre higher education work
Handelsbanken: various back office tasks as part time employee besides my studies in 93-94.
DnB: Various back office tasks as summer jobs during my study period from 90-93. From July 87- March 89 I
was fulltime employed with back office task (starting in Bergen Bank which later merged with DnC and
became DnB)
Other
Army service started in April 1989 and completed in April 1990. Served as company assistant at
INGBN/INGKP II at Skjold in Troms (northern Norway).
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3. Education
Norwegian School of Management (BI) 1998-1999
Completed one module (Consulting) of the Master of Management program
Norwegian School of Management (BI) Aug 1990 – June 1994
Undertook a four year course leading up to the title ”Siviløkonom”. Major in Logistics.
During the studies I was an assistant in Microeconomics II and in Political Science. I also participarted as a
team member of the Oslo Marketing Symposium in 1993, which was a student run marketing conference.
Ski V.g.s (High School) 1984-1987
3 year public high school, major in business administration.
IT systems
Excellent skills in Excel, Word, Powerpoint.
Excellent skills in Microsoft Dynamics (NAV), Cartesis Magnitude.
Experienced in Oracle Discoverer.
At work we use Windows based computers, at home I use Mac.
Interests
I greatly enjoys outdoor life, and frequently goes hiking in the mountains – both by autumn and winter and
whenever the opportunity arrises.
During wintertime I make use of the great skiing opportunities literally footsteps away from where I live with
my family. I have to walk for about 5 mintues to get to the skiing tracks, and from there, there are endless
opportunities for cross country skiing. We live approximately 5 minutes driving from slalom slopes in Drammen
and approximately 45 minutes away from slalom slopes in Kongsberg. My son and I go to these places quite
often during winter, and I am looking forward to start teaching my daughter the same.
During summertime I enjoy excercing by using rollerblades, by walking and cycling with my family in the
nearby forest and by swimming either in the new facilities of Drammensbadet or simply in the fjord.
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