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Some personal info: I was born in
Yugoslavia on the 28th of
June, 1970. I grew up in a quiet town called Novi Sad, which
features the oldest beach on Danube, the most
enjoyable fortress from Hapsburg monarchy, and three ruined
bridges. Novi Sad was a great place to grow up in. So
was Vojvodina - it is flat and agricultural, but beautiful,
friendly, slow and culturally confused in a charming way.
Here are some old photos from Vojvodina: around 1920-1950,
from my father's home village Petrovo Selo,
and my mother's home town Becej.
I was a Hungarian minority in this area, but it never
mattered. Yugoslavia was in general a good place to be, from
what I could see of those 17 years I've lived there, and
from what I've learned about life by living in other
places. But that's changed.
My family lives in Oslo, Norway. I
have lived there from 1988 to 1997, and then again from 2004 until now;
I studied and worked and skied and slowly became Norwegian.
Norway is beautiful and very kind; probably one of
the very few places on Earth where the majority of people
seriously believe in fairness and equality. It is also a
paradise on Earth in the summer, an absolute must see. As
for the winter: it is still beautiful, but you really have
to be fond of the snow to enjoy the many months of it.
Between 1997 and 2002 I was at Oxford
University, where I did a PhD. I also worked as a lecturer and a
tutor at the Department of Computer Science and at Oriel College and
some other places as well. My academic publications from this period
are here. I finished my PhD in
April 2001.
Oxford has an amazing
architecture and even more amazing set of people.
Lots of interesting traditions, dinners and gowns.
During my PhD, I spent several months as a
visiting researcher, working for Digital Corporations System Research Centre in
Palo Alto, doing development on algorithms and web software; working on a
research project at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing; and as a
professor, managing an academic programme at Dar al Hekma, the first private
female university in Saudi Arabia. Around this time, I have been awarded a Prize
Fellowship at Magdalen College at Oxford
Univeristy, a true aesthetic and academic paradise if there ever has been one.
It was a wonderful setting for intellectual work, with
inspiration around every corner (and there are many corners in old colleges
in Oxford).
In 2003 I did a one year MBA program at the school Insead in France, and I spent this year
partly in Fontainebleau and partly in Singapore, between the two Insead campuses.
Insead was a highly rewarding and intense experience, much recommended.
I have been back in Norway since 2004, working as a Vice President
of Product Marketing in the software company Fast Search & Transfer.
Some of my publications from this period
are here.
Since April 2008 I have been working for Microsoft as a
Director of Business Management.
Since January 2012 I have been working as an independent strategy
consultant, from my own company TechnoRocks.
In addition, I
now serve on several company boards:
Statkraft,
The Norwegian Lottery,
Dagbladet,
Aschehoug,
Norman,
Syncron,
Camo, and
GeoKnowledge.
I am also on the corporate
assembly of Telenor, and on
the advisory council of Alarga, on the board
of Transparency International in
Norway, and on the
Technology Council
og Norway. I serve as the president of the
INSEAD Alumni Association in Norway,
and in the past I have served on several other boards, among others,
on the board of directors for Opera Software
and ProfDoc
public companies.
Andreas and I have three children: Sander, Thomas and Maia.
Sander and Thomas were both born on May 8, Sander in 2007 and Thomas in 2009.
Maia was born on September 28 2010.
The photo-links below are intended for my friends scattered
around the world. Most of them contain large images and may
take some time to download. The highligted ones are the
most interesting ones.
- February '97: visting Sonia and Peter in Italy
- April '97: traveling in Peru with Andreas' family
- Summer '99: working in California
at Compaq SRC
- Christmas '99: trek to Himalaya
- a weekend in
Scotland, June 2000
- Visiting Christie in
Ireland, July 2000
- Visiting grandmother in
Yugoslavia, August 2000
- Celebrating Andreas's MSc at the Isles of
Scilly, September 2000
- Our honeymoon in
Cuba, September 2000
- A historical week in
Yugoslavia, October 2000
- Photos from
Sinai, April 2001
- Photos from
Oxford, May/June 2001
- Photos from
Yugoslavia, July/August 2001
- Our trip around southern and eastern
Africa, August/September 2001
- Autumn photos of
friends and family, October/November 2001
- A
Swan knocking on our door, November 2001
- Early spring images from
Oxford, February 2002
- Photos from a diving week on
Maldives in February 2002
- Photos from my teaching job in
Saudi Arabia in April 2002
- Photos from our Divemaster Course in
Jordan in July 2002
- Friends in
Oxford and Norway during summer 2002
- Friends in
Oxford during autumn 2002
- Working and travelling in
China in November 2002
- Winter photos from
Insead P1 in Fontainebleau, France, in January 2003
- Spring photos from
Insead P2 in Fontainebleau, France, in March 2003
- Summer photos from
Sailing in Greece in June and July 2003
- Diving photos from a week on a
liveaboard Oriana in Sharm during August 2003
- Autumn photos from travels based from
Singapore, during Insead P5 in November 2003
- Travel photos from
Bali during the Christmas break of 2003
- Trekking photos from
Thailand, in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, in January 2004
- Winter and spring photos from
Norway, from Oslo, Trysil and Tvedestrand, in March/April 2004
- Early summer photos from
Norway and US, in May/June 2004
- Action photos from
Norway, from Besseggen and other, in July/August 2004
- Seaside images from
Montenegro, from Herceg Novi area, in August/September 2004
- Diving and sighseeing images from
Sudan and Egypt, in December 2004
- Working and hiking in
Puerto Rico, in January 2005
- Winter photos from
Norway, in February and March 2005
- Easter photos from
Oslo, April 2005
- Insead reunion at
Jo's wedding, in Yorkshire, May 2005
- Visiting Paul in
New York, May 2005
- Back home after grandmother's funeral in
Vojvodina , June 2005
- Summer breather in
Tvedestrand , July 2005
- Paul and Elissa's
Wedding , London July 2005
- A relaxing week in
Herceg Novi , Monte Negro August 2005
- Titti's
Crayfish party , Jar August 2005
- Nenad and Asja's
Norway visit, September 2005
- Deep Blue diving in
Galapagos, December 2005
- Weekend in
Paris with mother, February 2006
- Skiing in
Trysil, March 2006
- Visting
Susanne and family in Denmark, April 2006
- Reunion with friends from INSEAD in
Sicily in June 2006
- Summer vacation in
Tvedestrand in Norway July 2006
- Cycling along
Rallarvegen in Norway August 2006
- Walking in
Sweden in November 2006
- Driving in
Andalucia in Spain December 2006
- Home with
Sander in Oslo May 2007
- Summer in
Tvedestrand in July and August 2007
- A few short trips to
Dubrovnik in September 2007
- More summer in
Herceg Novi in September 2007
- Sander's baptism in Monastery
Celije in October 2007
- Beach life on Cook Islands and Fiji in the
South Pacific in November 2007
- Celebrating the New Year in
Trysil in Norway, January 2008
- Old photos from highschool
Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj in Yugoslavia, 1987-88
- Natasa's nun initiation ceremony in Monastery
Celije in Serbia, April 2008
- Twentieth high-school reunion in Novi Sad at
J.J.Zmaj in Serbia, July 2008
- Hot summer on the
South Coast in Norway, July 2008
- Visiting Susanna's family in
Denmark, October 2008
- Cold vacation in the
Canary Islands in Spain, December 2008
- Christmas holidays in
Oslo and Trysil in Norway, December 2008
- Work conference in
Las Vegas in US, February 2009
- Family and tons of snow in
Oslo, February 2009
- Family and friends in
Serbia, April 2009
- Family and friends in
Norway, April 2009
- Arrival of
Thomas, in Oslo in May 2009
- Playing photographer with
Sander, June 2009
- Summer at
home, June 2009
- Cottage joys in
Tvedestrand, August 2009
- Late summer in
Oslo, August 2009
- Silvija in
e24, September 2009
- Silvija on
TV, September 2009
- Early autumn in
Oslo, September 2009
- Visiting family and friends in
Serbia with two babies, September 2009
- INSEAD Alumni Norway
Harvest Party, October 2009
- Autumn colours in
Oslo, October 2009
- Late autumn in
Oslo, November 2009
- Thomas'
baptism, December 2009
- Visits by
Ivana and Nenagh, December 2009
- Family
Christmas, December 2009
- Visit by
Ivan and family, December 2009
- Playing in the
snow at -15 Celsius, December 2009
- Long vacation in
Thailand with two babies, January and February 2010
- First week in cold Oslo for
Michelle, March 2010
- Sander and Thomas photos from
Fame, March 2010
- Early summer and birthdays in
Oslo, May 2010
- Profile
article in Dagens Næringsliv, July 2010
- Blueberries in
Hønefoss, July 2010
- Chilly summer in
Oslo, July 2010
- Summer photos from
Tvedestrand, July 2010
- Photos for Die Zeit
article, July 2010
- Summer photos from
Serbia, July 2010
- Our 10-year wedding anniversary in
Gålå, July 2010
- More summer in
Oslo, August 2010
- Kids and nature in
Oslo, September 2010
- Arrival of Maia
baby, September 2010
- Fancy photos of
Maia, October 2010
- Golden colors in
Oslo, October 2010
- Autumn joys in
Oslo, October 2010
- Sondre baptism and friends in
Norway, November 2010
- Kids and first ice and snow in
Norway, November 2010
- Dark and cold
Oslo, December 2010
- Christmas in
Oslo, December 2010
- More mid-winter in
Oslo, December 2010
- A short ferry trip to
Kiel, December 2010
- Winter and kids in
Norway, January 2011
- Visiting Ivan and Saska in
Hamar, February 2011
- Maia's
baptism, February 2011
- Visit by
Nenad and Hanna, February 2011
- Kindergarten
ski race, February 2011
- Beautiful winter
light, March 2011
- Walking around
Akershus festning, Oslo April 2011
- Visit by
Ivana and Yves, April 2011
- All children like to
splash, May 2011
- Signs of
spring, Oslo May 2011
- Boys in the Kristiansand
Zoo, May 2011
- Andreas'
birthday, May 2011
- Celebrating the
National Day, 17 May 2011
- NAA Presidents Meeting at
INSEAD, May 2011
- Visiting Serbia,
part 1 and part 2, June 2011
- Foto shoot of the kids by
Marika, June 2011
- Celebrating St Hans (summer solstice) with neighbours in
Loennaasen, June 2011
- Summer in Croatia, on island Korcula part 1
part 2,
part 3,
part 4,
, and
Mljet, July 2011
- More summer in Monte Negro, in Herceg Novi
and the surrounding Boka area, July 2011
- Talk at the
Peer Gynt Academy in Gålå, August 2011
- Summer joys in
Oslo, August 2011
- Lønnåsen
Ola Bil Race, August 2011
- Autumn and
apples, September 2011
- Walking around
Oscarsborg, September 2011
- Family photos at
Fame, September 2011
- Autumn colors in
Oslo, September 2011
- Boat trip to
Denmark, September 2011
- A cool playground with
old tires, September 2011
- Maia's first
birthday, September 2011
- Offshore windfarms in the UK with
Statkraft, October 2011
- Old trails in
Oxford, October 2011
- Visiting family and friends in
Serbia, October 2011
- Playing with
autumn, October 2011
- Maia's
friends, November 2011
- Before the snow around
home, November 2011
- Visiting
Istanbul, December 2011
- Teknologiraadet at
Lysebu, December 2011
- Random photos of
family and friends, December 2011
- A visit by
Saska, Lea and Ana, December 2011
- Family
Christmas, December 2011
- More winter
fun, December 2011
- Lots of snow in
Trysil, December 2011
- Celebrating
Elena, January 2012
- Around
Oslo, January 2012
- More everyday photos from
home in Oslo, February 2012
- Maia's
maternity group in Oslo, February 2012
- Walking on
fjord ice in Oslo, February 2012
- Celebrating
Titti, February 2012
- Visit by
Sidsel and family in Oslo, February 2012
- Snow in
Frognerparken, February 2012
- Nicolas and Rafael in
Folkemuseum in Oslo, February 2012
- Children are never
cold even in Oslo, February 2012
- Visiting Ivan and the family in
Hamar, February 2012
- Sander's first ski race in
Holmenkollen in Oslo, March 2012
- Birthdays and toys and
boys in Oslo, March 2012
- A walk along
Akerselva in Oslo, March 2012
- Sunny
Bydgoy in Oslo, March 2012
- Playing around
home in Oslo, March 2012
- Judging at the
Startup Weekend in Oslo, March 2012
- Spring in
Vojvodina, April 2012
- Playing around
home in Oslo, April 2012
- Celebrating Sander's and Thomas'
joint birthday in Oslo, May 2012
- Celebrating Norwegian
national day in Oslo, May 2012
Last updated May 2012