Endre Thesen Harnes

Chief Commercial Officer @ Avisomo - Next-Gen vertical farming

Oslo, Oslo, Norway

About

An outgoing Northern-Norwegian looking to fix food, enjoy life and build holistic, empathetic companies. I'm Chief Commercial Officer at Avisomo, where we have created the world's most flexible, automatable, and scalable vertical farming system. I believe vertical farming will be an important part of the future, sustainable food system, and we are here to prove it. We have just finalized our industrial pilot - a retail-integrated, "no hands" vertical farm built as a joint venture with Coop Norway. Products in stores soon. I'm looking to connect with people in the food supply chain who want to secure their access to affordable, year-round, high-quality produce. Before Avisomo, I was a serial founder focused on culture and sustainability, a TV producer and director, a musician, and a DJ. I still play music at every occasion imaginable, and I love both talking and DJing at conferences.

Experience

  • Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Avisomo
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Chief Commercial Officer with main responsibility for commercial strategies; Market entry, sales strategies, communication and marketing. Avisomo produces modular vertical farming systems based around established food production industry standards, creating the most cost effective, automatable and scalable production systems on the market.

  • Contributor - Head of Collaborative Partnerships at TERRAVERA Foundation
    May 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Responsibility for collaborative partnerships and soft funding initatives for TERRAVERA Foundation, a non-profit tech foundation empowering everyone to make truly sustainable decisions.

  • Founder at Farmest AS
    Jan 2019 - Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Startup in the vertical farming space, working to integrate vertical farming solutions into already established food system infrastructure.

  • Co-captain / Project lead TOOL Spawn at The Ocean Opportunity Lab (TOOL)
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    The Ocean Opportunity Lab is the world's first floating entrepreneur lab and collaborative community, enabling the connection of sustainability oriented startups and corporates in the ocean and renewable energy industries. My role in TOOL included: Soft Funding - Lead on all of TOOLs soft funding. - 3 out of 3 applications granted: Innovation Norway Commercialization, Oslo County Regional Innovation Program, Norwegian Research Council Tax refund scheme. - 1.8 MNOK as of august 2020 Project lead TOOL Spawn Beta - leading a team of four on the beta of our new platform. - Developing onboarding structures of new employees - developing support structures for the beta - Onboarding users and new customers TOOL Spawn platform development - Responsible for representing TOOL in the development process together with CEO and our tech partners Hedy Tech and IndyRiot. Technical responsibilities during physical events

  • Producer at Katapult Future Fest
    Dec 2019 - May 2020 · 6 mos

    Producer of onsite event - converted to digital event producer after Covid-19.