Tor Gronsund (NOR)

Tor is the founder and CEO of Lingo Social, a social software company based in Oslo, Norway.

Previously, Tor was one of the first employees at Ignitas, a strategic advisory and early-stage investment company, where he was involved with various Norwegian Internet startups.

Before that Tor had a couple of stints with Fast Search and Transfer and Schibsted, where he was with strategy and business development.

While studying, Tor spent his entire savings on routers and founded a wireless sharing company, which eventually went into providing Internet advice and analysis to management consulting and media companies.

Tor is currently also assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Oslo, where he is focused on teaching business model innovation, customer development, and Lean Startup techniques. Tor blogs at torgronsund.com.