Ole-Kristian Sivertsen, Senior Vice President at Global Eagle, is head of the company’s Maritime business including Cruise, Ferry, Commercial Shipping, Energy, Offshore Oil & Gas, and Yachts.
Sivertsen has 20 years of experience transforming technology innovations into business value. His leadership at companies such as Citrix, Telenor MCP, EVRY and Global Eagle has delivered significant growth through relentless focus on helping customers solve core challenges and improving their business.
His sales and leadership philosophy is all about making others successful; empowering employees to be successful creates a great workplace, inspiring them to make customers successful creates a great company. Driven by this philosophy and Executive Management Education at INSEAD, Sivertsen crafted his “Blue Ocean Sales Framework” to transform sales organizations into trusted business advisors.
Ole strives to help customers tap into the full potential of digital through extending the experience expected “at home” to maritime and “off the grid” places. His vision focusses on making clients reference customers and ambassadors through serving in ways that enrich time.
Sivertsen frequently shares his vision, knowledge and strategies at maritime events and conferences. His presentations offer real-life examples bringing ideas to life, delivering takeaways that immediately translate into action and powerful results.
Sivertsen divides his time between Miami and Norway where his family lives.