Ole Martin Kristiansen

About

15+ years of building commercial, brand driven products and autonomous product teams. Built and scaled Kron to a successful Storebrand-exit in 2023. I've worked with scale-ups and corporates (Vipps, Coinbase, Oda, Morgenlevering, Dr.Dropin, Pexip, SATS, DNB) to find product market fit and establish new commercial strategies.

Experience

• Chief Product Officer at Nettbil
  Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

• Chief Product Officer at Airthings
  Aug 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Kron
  Jan 2017 - Aug 2024 · 7 yrs 8 mos

  A breath of fresh air in the Norwegian financial industry. Through Kron we are making investments available for everyone. Found product market fit in 2018/2019 with innovative mutual fund themes, saw exponential growth in the following years, mainly powered by referrals and strong brand positioning. Found product market fit again in 2021 with pension, taking 20% market share on the launch of our EPK product. Successfully exited to Norways largest capital manager Storebrand in january 2023.

• Head Of Design and Product at Bakken & Bæck AS
  Sep 2014 - Feb 2020 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  Lead, designed and built digital products and services with companies like Vipps, Coinbase, Oda (Kolonial.no), DNB, SATS, Pexip, Morgenlevering and Dr.Dropin as product manager. Lead and grew a multi-disciplinary team of Brand, UX and Product Designers across our offices in Amsterdam, Bonn, London and Oslo.

• Product Designer at Uniform Strategisk Design AS
  Jan 2012 - Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  Lead digital designer on the NSB app (now Vy), Ekebergparken, Lysebu.