Our people

Peter Berendsen Svarrer

Peter Svarrer is a seasoned CEO and Board Member with 20+ years of international leadership experience from the Construction, Energy, Maritime, Manpower Service and Workplace Safety Training industries.

Peter has lead and grown companies through both financial, geopolitical and social disruption as well as through up turns. Peter holds an MBA from the University of Reading/Henley as well as leadership courses from INSEAD and and IMD.

Tomas Hvamb

Tomas is an experienced private equity investor and board-member. He joined EV Private Equity in 2013 following five years with Barclays. Prior to this he spent four years with DNB in their structured finance team in Oslo.

Tomas is currently overseeing the stewardship process in EV as well as being a board member of EV portfolio companies Westwood Global Energy, Motive Offshore and Aquaterra Energy.

Rune Jensen

Rune is a Senior Partner at EV Private Equity, experienced CEO, Board Member and Investment Professional with a demonstrated history of strong value creation in Oil & Gas, Information Technology, Publishing and the Financial Services industry.

Among others Rune was CEO and responsible for 12 countries in Europe for International Masters Publishers, a subscription based training and entertainment products company.

As Chairman of the video conferencing company Viju, now Kinly, he implemented a strong growth and internationalization strategy leading the company to a global leadership position.

Grethe Høiland

Grethe Høiland holds an MsC degree within electrical engineering from the University of Trondheim and a Business Economist degree from Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt in Oslo. Her professional carreer covers a wide range of managerial positions within the energy and telecom industry, mainly within electric power technology, information technology and sales and marketing.

Grethe has extensive experience as a board member within financial, health, IT consultancy and power grid companies. She has also been a board member in Sintef Energy research company and have been involved in research programs in the Norwegian Research council.

Stian Martinsen

Stian Martinsen is an engineer in Electro and Computer Science. He started in Trainor in 1998 as a programmer and developed the first version of Trainor’s Learning Management System (LMS) and online e-learning courses.

During his years at Trainor, he has had multiple roles: system developer, e-learning production, IT, project manager, team manager, managing director and now as CEO.

Morten Aasen

Morten has over two decades of experience in managing fast moving technology companies. He was MD and co-founder of maritime satellite company Virtek Communication, which was acquired by American publicly-listed group KVH Industries in 2010. During his time at KVH, Morten continued as MD of the Norwegian branch reporting directly to US headquarters and was part of the global senior management team with key responsibility for several global growth initiatives. In 2014 Morten started as MD of Seagull Oil & Gas (now part of Ocean Technologies Group), where he also served as Director of Sales & Marketing with responsibility across the Seagull Maritime group and held various board positions. Morten participated in several acquisitions during his time at Seagull, was part of two exit processes and reported to three different private equity firms.

Morten joined Trainor in December 2020 as Chief Commercial Officer.

Jens Albrektsson

After graduating from the War Academy and several years in the Armed Forces as an Officer, Jens decided to start a career in the civilian market. At the age of 31 he became one of Sweden's youngest principals of all time and he also worked as an HR Manager in one of the largest companies in Electrical Installations.

Jens is an experienced CEO in B2B education with a focus on electrical safety and HSE. Thanks to 15 years of experience as CEO, he has built up a large network of contacts with customers and industry organizations. In his previous roles as CEO of various training companies, he has led growth, acquisitions, mergers and start ups.

Jens started at Trainor in September 2020 and his mission is to lead the growth and digitalisation in Sweden.

Eva Nordskog

Eva is an experienced Communication leader with a master’s degree in Media and Communications from the University of Bergen. Additionally, her education also includes several studies within organizational behaviour, organizational and work psychology and administration and organization science. Her master's thesis revolved around the theme of edutainment - the intersection of learning and entertainment.

Eva has experience from management positions, leading and developing communication strategies, brand development, digital strategy, digital marketing, corporate policies, employee experience, HR and ESG. Prior to joining Trainor as a Chief Communication Officer (CCO) in 2013, her main occupancies were as leader of regional fundraising activities in the National Cancer Society, as communications advisor responsible for building up a digital strategy for the Career Center in Bergen, General Manager of Bergen Student Culture House, leading a small base of employees and over 400 volunteers, in addition to working with copywriting and digital marketing in Breakfast Agency.

Kåre Vegar Sund

After completing his BA hons in Documentary Film at Birmingham City University, Kåre co-founded Headspin, an award-winning creative agency, now the largest Advertisement agency in Trondheim. His main role was Art Director, but he also worked with Concept Development, Directing, Animation, Sound-design and Editing.

Kåre joined Trainor as Creative Director in 2014 and now works with creative processes and quality of visual communication in our e-learning solutions. He has been focused on building a strong team of designers and developers, to elevate Trainor’s digital learning products to be industry best, and continue to be the envy of our competitors.

Lars Bratli

Lars joined Trainor in 2015 as product manager for Trainor’s web systems portfolio. He graduated from the University of South-Eastern Norway in 2005 with a degree in Computer science & IT Management. For 7 years he worked as an IT consultant/system developer for VZT, before moving to a Senior system developer/Project Manager position for Byte AS in Oslo. As an IT consultant, Lars has worked with a wide array of Norwegian and International companies within both the public and private sector.

In 2017, Lars started as the Team Leader for Trainor Digital. He has the overall responsibility for the team that develops and maintains Trainor’s web applications, including the Trainor LMS, the Trainor webshop, Sikkerhetskort.no, Trainor apps - as well as a steadily growing amount of tailor-made customer integrations. Lars and his team strive to deliver secure, user-friendly systems and automated, integrated processes.

Bjørn André Ulseth-Rivelsrud

Bjørn Andrè started his career at the Norwegian Navys frigate weapon in 2003 and sailed both Oslo class and Nansen class frigate until he started his Bachelor in Electro and automation at the University of South-Norway in 2010.

After becoming an engineer he joined Trainor in June 2013 were he worked as instructor for 3 years holding 100 course days a year before he became senior instructor in 2015 and team leader for the classroom department in 2017.