Gunnar Hólmsteinn
Born to optimize
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Computing, Financial, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Copy Writing, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Engineering, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking |
| Groups: | Innovit |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Giving back, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
FEATURED STARTUP
CLARA
CLARA
CLARA is an innovative online marketing research tool which applies highly developed and optimized artificial intelligence to automatically analyze attitudes, emotions and user behavior on the entire Internet.
- Startup type: University Spin-out
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
Gunnar is a a market research fanatic and a entrepreneur currently in CLARA, an Reykjavik based start-up helping companies understand customers. At CLARA, Gunnar’s role as CEO is to ensure that the team always performs to its full potential. Gunnar is the youngest ever to receive a full research grant from the Iceland’s biggest Research Fund, as well as raising capital in post-apocalyptic economy of Iceland.
Prior to founding CLARA, Gunnar was a Brand Manager at The Coca-Cola Company in Iceland, as well as doing extensive work for their market research efforts. Gunnar has been an active civil servant through projects involving, development aid and education. He is both an active practitioner and thinker in the worlds of marketing, market research and the social web. He loves to talk and has given lectures on those topics on numerous occasions.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | CLARA |
| Position: | CEO |
| Time period: | November 2007 - Present |
| Employer: | The Coca-Cola Company |
| Position: | Brand Manager and market research analyst |
| Time period: | April 2006 - September 2008 |
| Employer: | Skálabrekka Properties |
| Position: | Project management |
| Time period: | June 2005 - August 2005 |
| Employer: | SS ltd. |
| Position: | Logistics and marketing |
| Time period: | June 2002 - December 2004 |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Golf, biking, diving, wakeboarding, soccer, mountain climbing and much more. |
| Memberships: | 2007 – Pres. DTU’s student counsel, Strategy and consulting.
2007 Development aid in Seychelles, Africa. 2005 – 2006 Graduate students’ interests association, Spokesman 2005 – 2006 Collage of Reykjavík student union, Inspector scholae (President) 2005 – 2006 Collage of Reykjavík, Education committee 2004 – 2005 Collage of Reykjavík student union, Quaestor scholaris (Treasurer) 2004 – 2005 Á Herranótt Drama society, Marketing Manager. 2003 – 2004 Tourist organization SMR, President |
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CLARA
CLARA is an innovative online marketing research tool which applies highly developed and optimized artificial intelligence to automatically analyze attitudes, emotions and user behavior on the entire Internet.
Gunnar's Contacts (15)
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Haukur Hólmsteinsson
Icelandic, 23, Co-founder of CLARA, majoring in Philosophy at the University of Iceland,
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Magnús Már Einarsson
Industrial engineering graduate from University of Iceland. Currently working as Project manager at Innovit.
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Andri Heidar Kristinsson
Icelandic, 28, founder and Managing Director of Innovit Entrepreneurship Center in Reykjavik. BS in computer- and electronical engineering. My passion is Entrepreneurship, startups, travelling and fencing!
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Einar Thor
Einar Thor. 28 year old Icelander living in Copenhagen Denmark. Looking for interested people to work with.