An operating CTO, end to end.

Built from the physical layer up.

I am co-founder and CTO at Fell Technology, a role I have held since 2013. My responsibility has crossed hardware, electronics, firmware, cloud, mobile applications, DevOps, industrialization, certification, support and ongoing operation of connected products.

I have led more than 80 internal and external engineers through technical leads and distributed teams, and worked across global connected-product and OEM delivery. My earlier work as an embedded systems engineer at Texas Instruments Norway continues to shape how I think: abstractions matter, but real systems are ultimately constrained by physics, interfaces and operating conditions.

Technical depth should improve decisions.

The CTO role is not a choice between executive leadership and technical credibility. The job is to connect the two: make the system legible, expose consequential trade-offs, build strong technical leadership and keep the organization focused on what the product requires.

I prefer explicit interfaces, evidence over performance, and operating models that make good decisions easier. In applied AI, that means evaluation and human boundaries. In connected products, it means lifecycle ownership. In larger organizations, it means scaling judgment rather than centralizing approval.

Applied AI that can be operated.

My current focus is AI-enabled products and workflows where reliability, evidence, permissions and escalation matter. That includes AI-assisted engineering, AI-supported internal workflows and agentic support systems for complex connected products.

I am also interested in the organizational questions that arrive with these systems: how to evaluate them against real work, where humans should remain in the loop, and how technology leaders can introduce them without outsourcing judgment.

Engineering foundation

BSc in Electronic Engineering / Cybernetics.

Public patent records name me as an inventor on three granted Fell Technology patents and as a contributor to two additional granted joint marine-system patents, spanning wireless safety, secure access and integrated marine-vessel control.

1. Lanyard system and method for a marine vesselUS 11,970,251 B2 · issued 30 April 2024
2. Configurable remote control system and method for a marine vesselUS 11,250,653 B2 · issued 15 February 2022
3. System and method for wirelessly linking electronic components and/or sensors using sub-1 GHz frequencies (700–1000 MHz) for long range, robustness in wet environment and high resistance to wireless noiseUS 10,752,209 B2 · issued 25 August 2020
4. System and method for combining a wireless device, such as a key or other device, with a wireless kill switchUS 10,596,998 B2 · issued 24 March 2020
5. Secure key acknowledgement—frequency dilutionUS 10,513,245 B2 · issued 24 December 2019