Omny, a provider of industrial security software for Operational Technology (OT) environments, established by Aker Group, Telenor and Cognite, announced today the appointment of Sigvart Voss Eriksen, a seasoned telecommunications industry executive with a global experience in scaling software technologies.
Sigvart has extensive experience across 3 continents within Telenor Group including holding multiple Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Strategy Officer roles in India, Thailand and Hungary before heading the successful turnaround of Tapd as a CEO. The past two years he has successfully built an advisory and investment network while holding several board positions in Norwegian technology scale-ups.
Dr. John Markus Lervik, Chairman of the Board at Omny welcomes Sigvart to Omny at the time the company is scaling up its operations for a rapid commercial expansion across its key industrial verticals. “Sigvart’s extensive experience with international software technology companies is crucial to Omny. We have a big and important challenge ahead of us: an increased exposure of physical infrastructure to cyber threats as industrial digital transformation makes IT and OT infrastructures merge. We believe Sigvart is a great match to lead Omny on this journey”
Sigvart is very excited to enter into the new role and contribute to securing critical infrastructure with data.
“Omny is truly unique thanks to the combined power of three leading companies in their respective industries. Omny will, together with our partners, raise the bar when it comes to industrial security and set new standards in the industrial world. I'm excited to enter into this role and looking forward to building the Omny organization and software together with the strong team of 21 employees we already have in place.”