We are a diverse team of finance and technology professionals with a range of backgrounds stretching from deep buyside experience to mathematicians, software engineers, designers and entrepreneurs.
Leadership team
Øyvind Grotmol
Founder & CTO
Øyvind has 12 years of experience as a tech entrepreneur. He was Director of Research & Innovation at Medallia and VP at Energy Micro, and did AI research as Senior Scientist at Brain Corp.
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Andreas Flåt Aglen
CEO
Andreas comes from the role as Engagement Manager at McKinsey. He holds an MSc degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from NTNU.
Øyvind Wergeland
VP Engineering
Øyvind comes from the role as CTO at Oslo Market Solutions, a leading Nordic provider of web based financial market data and securities trading solutions. Previously he was Software Architect at Fast Search & Transfer.
Zac Yang
VP Product
Zac is passionate about building products that delight customers, and focuses on shaping Exabel's state-of-the-art analytics into an easy-to-use product that delivers great customer value. He was previously an equity analyst at BlackRock and product manager at Orbital Insight.
Christopher Chang King
VP Sales, North America
Christopher leads our sales and partnership practice in North America, bringing extensive experience delivering transformative data and analytics solutions to public and private financial markets. He joins from the alternative data provider Second Measure, now acquired by Bloomberg.
Ana Garcia Barrera
Director Finance & HR
Ana has a finance background, MBA and 8+ years’ global experience scaling startups for Property and Renewable Energy in emerging markets. She is originally from Monterrey, Mexico and has lived in 5 different countries.
Brendan Gay
Director Data Partnerships
Brendan brings experience from the Strategic Client Group at FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information, as well as from Eaton Vance (subsidiary of Morgan Stanley), a global buy-side investment manager. He holds a history degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, USA.
Camilla Yang
Director Operations
Camilla joins from Monzo Bank, a leading digital UK challenger bank, bringing operational and Fintech experience. Previously worked at Tactical Opportunities, an experimental deal origination team for international top tier law firms. Holds a M.Eng from Trinity College, University of Oxford.
Hugh Sallows
Director Marketing
Hugh joins Exabel as Marketing Director to lead marketing initiatives for the company. Bringing 5+ years experience in Marketing, in his previous role at a FinTech startup Hugh worked as a crucial member in the initial core team, building out lead generation and digital programmes.
Core team
Taral Seierstad
Senior Software Engineer
Taral holds a doctoral degree in mathematics, a master’s degree in law, and has software development experience from BEKK and Intelligent Trading.
Børge Nordli
Principal Software Architect
Børge has nine years of developer experience from Google, Microsoft and Bouvet. He is a merited contestant from international mathematical and programming contests, including a silver medal at the ACM ICPC World’s Finals.
Agustín Arizti
Front end Developer Tech Lead
Agustín comes from building enterprise collaboration tools at Symfoni. He brings five years of software development experience, and holds a degree in computer science from Universidad de la República in Uruguay.
Bjørn Rustad
Senior Software Engineer
Bjørn brings experience as a data engineer within Schibsted Products & Technology group, and holds a master’s degree in mathematics from NTNU.
Øystein Hallaråker
Principal Software Engineer
Øystein comes to Exabel after a decade at Microsoft, most recently in a role as Principal Software Engineer. Øystein holds an MSc from NTNU.
Arpit Gupta
Quantitative Researcher
Arpit brings his expertise in quantitative research from his 5 year experience at BlackRock and Goldman Sachs. He holds an integrated M.Tech in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi.
John-Erik Johansen
Principal Data Engineer
John-Erik brings more than a decade of experience in market data management and architecture from Oslo Market Solutions. He has previous experience from VoIP provider Telio and holds a masters degree in Computer Science from UiO.
Surbhi Miglani
Research Scientist
Surbhi comes with an experience of 5+ years in Quantitative Research and Trading in Global Markets from hedge funds such as WorldQuant and Qube. Her educational background is in Mathematics and Computer Science from IIT Delhi.
Haakon Hammarbeck
Technical Pre-Sales Engineer
Haakon comes to Exabel after working with business intelligence and data engineering at Visma bWise. He has experience from industrial digital twins for asset-heavy industries and holds a master’s degree in physics from NTNU.
Christian Onsager
Senior Front-end Developer
Christian is an experienced developer with a background from Capgemini and Bouvet. He has a master's degree in Industrial Design from NTNU.
Gerrit Witteveen
Senior Product Designer
Gerrit has over 10 years of experience in product and user experience design. Most recently he has been contributing to design systems and working on digital financial services for the Nordic countries at Oslo Market Solutions. Gerrit holds a MSc in Industrial Design Engineering from University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Romit Sevani
Partner Success
Romit brings 5+ years of experience in SaaS Sales and Management Consulting, most recently working at AlphaSense and Sentieo where he helped deploy intelligent search technology to global buy-side investors. Romit holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Finance and Economics from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Harrison Perl
Partner Success
Harrison brings 5+ years of business development experience, most recently from Similarweb where he worked with public and private investors globally to integrate Alternative Data into their investment processes. He holds a Masters in Professional Accounting from the McCombs School of Business.
Sveta Leonovets
Senior Frontend Engineer
Sveta comes from Twilio Inc. and has eleven years of experience in Frontend software development in various fields: e-commerce, advertisement technologies, communications, and so on. Holds academic background in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.
