Ola Ahlvarsson

Ola Ahlvarsson has been working with and managing leading internet ventures since the early days with Spray, Boxman, Blocket, Letsbuyit, and SIME to later ventures like FON, Best Secret, Blocket, Epicenter, and many more. As a specialist in innovation and internationalization, Ola has been an advisor to world-leading organizations like Google, Ericsson, Samsung, Microsoft, Schibsted, Deutsche Telecom, Telenor, and many more.

Being the founder of over 20 companies, his current portfolio consists of international expansion and innovations advisors Result, Swedish media house Keynote Media Group, owning and selling portals, magazines, events and online ventures, Star Stable, the world’s largest game for girls passionate for horses, Sellbranch, a leading Nordic advertising technology agency (managing Twitter and Yahoo in Scandinavia), Epicenter, a 30 000 m2 innovation house, and Ahlvar Gallery a fashion brand. In addition, he holds a portfolio of angel investments in a select range of companies, from psychology clinics to castles.

Ola has a unique background in martial arts, having won a World Championship and European Championship gold in Goju Ryu Karate, a bronze in Taekwondo World Championships, and a World Championship in Kick-Boxing.

He combines his martial arts experience with his 25-year experience in entrepreneurship, fuelled by a relentless passion for creating. Ola holds an MBA from the University of Stockholm, has guest lectured at Harvard Business School, and is also the course director for the Executive MBA program E-Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.