Daniel is an award winning serial entrepreneur with background from several IT and Telecom startups. He funded one of Norway's first domain and web hosting companies at the age of 17.

With close to 20 years of entrepreneurial experience within the field of IT, media, marketing and mobile, Daniel has a vast business network and plenty of hard earned experience in building products, business and companies.

After three years of studying both the proprietary Norwegian and later the international payment networks, Daniel designed a brand new payment infrastructure and built mobile payment platform on top of it. The result was mCASH, later known as the industry leading, cloud based, white-label mobile payments platform AUKA.

AUKA was first to develop mobile payment technology in the Nordics, first to launch mobile payments in Norway and the world’s first regulated financial services company to run 100% on public cloud as a Google technology partner on Google Cloud Platform.

Daniel is a sought after speaker in the field of innovation, technology and payments. The Norwegian Venture Capital Association awarded Daniel “Entrepreneur of the year 2014”.