Creating everlasting values
We help self-governed companies succeed through FRIENDLY, enduring, and skilled support
Our approach
Perpetual perspective on all investments
We are here for the long term.
Decentralised ownership model
We minimize administration and maximize value creation.
Companies that do not fit with conventional venture capital or private equity investors
We are different, and we look for companies with a difference.
Unique investment mandate
We are trusted to invest in relationships, so we emphasize people over formal investment committee meetings.
Growth
We invest in sustainable revenue growth, not cost-cutting.
Exclusively friendly acquisitions
We forge mutual partnerships with the people we invest in.
Profitable companies with a strong position in their enterprise software niche
We love companies that obsessively want to be best within their domain, as we do in ours.
Aligned incentives
We put our money where our mouth is, investing as individuals a large share of our own money in Hawk Infinity.
The team
Johan B. Michelsen
Johan B. Michelsen
Chief Investment Officer and Member of the Board
Work Experience:
- Founder & Partner of Hawk Infinity and Hawk Seafood
- 6 years as Deputy CEO/CFO of Ice Group
- 6 years as Partner and founder of Medici Corporate (M&A)
- Investing private money since 2008
- 4 years as Partner at SEB, consecutive ranking as #1 equity analyst all years
- 1 year at Pareto Securities from 1999 and 3 years from 2009 following sale of Medici Corporate to Pareto
- 1 year at Handelsbanken as equity analyst
- 1 year experience from The Boston Consulting Group
E-mail: jm@hawk
Marianne Michelsen
Marianne Michelsen
Chief Executive Officer at Hawk Infinity and Member of the Board
Work Experience:
- Founder & Partner of Hawk Infinity
- CEO in Family Investment companies since 2010
- 2 years of experience as COO and IR in the Private Equity company FSN Capital
- 8 years of experience from the financial services sector (DNB)
- 2 years of experience from The Boston Consulting Group
E-mail: mm@hawk.no
Joakim Karlsen
Joakim Karlsen
Partner
Work Experience:
- Founder & Partner of Hawk Seafood
- Partner at Hawk Infinity
- 3 years at Arctic Securities, Corporate Finance
- 4 years at Pareto Securities, Corporate Finance
E-mail: jk@hawk.no
Jannik Woxholth
Jannik Woxholth
Partner
Work Experience:
- Partner at Hawk Infinity
- Partner and 10 years’ experience at McKinsey & Company
- Deputy CEO at Katapult Accelerator
- Dual law and business degrees with INSEAD MBA and Ph.D. on shareholders’ agreements
E-mail: jw@hawk.no
Benjamin Sommer
Benjamin Sommer
Partner
Work Experience:
- Partner at Hawk Infinity
- 20 years of experience from tech companies as entrepreneur, investor, and board member
- Lecturer, speaker and mentor at universities, incubators, and accelerators on agile
,start-ups and business models
E-mail: benjamin@hawk.no
Emil Mellbye
Emil Mellbye
Investment Director and IR Lead
- Investment Director at Hawk Infinity
- Investor Relations Lead for Hawk Infinity and Hawk Seafood
- 4 years of investment banking experience at UBS in London
- Part time work at Clarksons Platou Securities and The Economist Intelligence Unit
- Norwegian Army Officer Training School’s 2-year programme
E-mail: em@hawk.no
Even Fuglestad
Even Fuglestad
Investment Director
- Investment Director at Hawk Infinity
- 2 years as responsible for strategy, business development and M&A in the Glamox Global Marine & Offshore division
- 5 years in management consulting with a strong track-record in strategy and business development projects, and exploration of new technologies and business models
- Experience from «management for hire»-roles with responsibility to develop and grow XaaS-business models, in particular from the telecom and utilities industries
E-mail: ef@hawk.no
Ingebrikt Bjørkhaug
Ingebrikt Bjørkhaug
Chief Financial Officer
- 3 years of management for hire (mostly Hawk-related)
- Interim CFO of Aega ASA
- Interim CFO of Gabler Investments
- Interim CFO of Convene Group
- 5 years of experience from EY, Manager at Transaction Advisory Services
E-mail: ib@hawk.no
Mats Troeng
Mats Troeng
Chief Technical Officer
- Appr. 20 years as software developer and consultant
- 7 years as software engineer and architect at Knowit
- Founder of several sports software applications
- Former national team runner in orienteering (Sweden)
- Civilingeniør, Uppsala University
E-mail: mt@hawk.no
Nils Arne Bakke (BOD)
Nils Arne Bakke
Chairman of the Board
- Close partner with Hawk Infinity in many holdings
- 5 years as CEO of Altibox
- Ph.D. in industrial economics, NTNU
Sverre Brott (BOD)
Sverre Brott
Member of the Board
- Represents the current largest external investor, Gasmann Invest AS
- Background from the Norwegian real estate market through more than 20 years as CEO of his real estate company currently named Gasmann Eiendom AS
- Educated as civil engineer
- 13 years as a consulting engineer in construction technology
- Gasmann has been a shareholder in Hawk Infinity since foundation and was incremental in the establishment of the structure
Roland Rabben (BOD)
Roland Rabben
Member of the Board
- Founder and CEO of Jotta Group since its inception in 2008
- 20+ years of experience from building Jotta Group and other internet services and start-ups: Scala, StreamBase Technologies and Firstmover