Education

2015 -   2016          IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain

Advanced Management program (AMP)

2002 - 2004       University of Iceland

M.Sc. in Business Administration

Management and Business Strategy

1999 - 2002    University of Iceland

B.Sc. in Business Administration

Work Experience

2007 -               Reykjavik University

Director of B.Sc. program in Business and Economics

Responsible for the daily management of the program, its development and quality assurance and strategic planning. Recruitment of teachers and arrangement of courses

·         Teaching at undergraduate level: Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, Change management and Entrepreneurship and Starting New Ventures

·         Teaching at graduate level: Consultancy, Change and Organizational development for the School of Engineering (Master of Project Management students)

·         Supervision of 3-5 undergraduate research projects per year

·         Chairman of Program Council

·         Member of Faculty Council

·         Member of RU Curriculum Council

·         RU’s representative on the Educational Quality Committee at the Technical College (Diploma degree)

·         RU’s representative on the board of Festa - Icelandic Center for Corporate Social Responsibility 

·         Member of committees and project groups involving cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Culture

·         Leader of project group cooperating with the organization EFMD on RU’s EPAS accreditation. See: https://www.efmd.org/index.php/accreditation-main/epas

·         RU’s delegate at numerous International conferences and workshops

2004 - 2007       BYR Savings Bank

Corporate Accounts

My responsibilities included professional consultation to clients, which are firms, associations and other business entities. Furthermore approving loans and lines of credit, payment and collection schedules.

2004                 Husasmidjan

Analyst/Project work 

Husasmidjan services and sells products for the construction and home improvement sector. Responsibilities included analyzing market- and financial information as well as creating long term cost predictions

1995 - 2002       Netverk ehf

Various office work

An Icelandic software company specializing in communications. Responsibilities included accounting, payroll and shareholder’s relations. Assistant of General Manager 1998 – 2002

Teaching outside RU

2006 - 2010       University of Iceland

Faculty of Engineering / Master of Project Management

Taught a course: Strategic Management / Balanced Scorecard

2006 - 2009       University of Iceland

Continuing Education

Taught a course: Balanced Scorecard

Activities

2014 -

Festa - Icelandic Center for Corporate Social Responsibility

Board member 

2011 -

The Icelandic Financial Services Association

Chairman

The Icelandic Financial Services Association 

Chair of Regulatory Authority forming a study line for certified financial advisors

2008 - 2011

The Confederation of Icelandic Bank and Finance Employees

Evaluator

The Value of Work - The project is an EU (Leonardo) funded project about recognition and validation of competence in the financial services sector (particularly banking) through social partnership with employers and trade unions

2004 -

Excellent Iceland

2004–2010        Chairman for a group of professionals on Balanced Scorecard

2010-2012         Board member

2012-                Member of Quality Committee