Torkel Johannessen (CEO)

Torkel Johannessen is the CEO of Ignitas. He came to Ignitas from the role as Product Director at Passado.com, one of Europe’s largest community sites with 5 million users. Prior to joining Passado, he spent four years at Match.com, an online personals provider operated by Interactivecorp. Torkel held a number of product and marketing positions at Match.com, including Senior Brand Manager, responsible for the International Product Development of Chemistry.com, a premium online personals brand. In previous roles with Match.com, Torkel was employed as Marketing and Business Analytics Manager, Customer Care Manager and a Business Analyst. He has also served as Product Manager for Yahoo! Europe.

Torkel is a graduate of Macquarie University, where he studied for a Masters Degree in International Business, and of The Norwegian School of Management where he gained a Bachelors Degree in International Marketing. He has extensive international experience from working in the UK, US, Australia, Russia and Germany.

Torkel is an authorizied Director of the Board from the Norwegian Board of Directors association and represent Ignitas on the boards of Colt Kommunikasjon AS, Seobra Limited and Mocca Software AS.