Petter Ole Jakobsen

Co-founder And Senior Advisor, Vizrt at Vizrt

Petter Ole Jakobsen is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at Vizrt, having held multiple leadership roles including Chief Innovation Officer, CTO, and CEO since joining the company in September 1997. Prior to his tenure at Vizrt, Petter Ole Jakobsen served as a System Editor for news at Tv2 from 1992 to 1997 and worked as a Senior Systems Consultant at DnB NOR between 1986 and 1992. Petter Ole Jakobsen earned a Bachelor's degree in Information Science and Economics from the University of Bergen (UiB) from 1982 to 1987, and also attended Vardø Videregående from 1977 to 1979.

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Vizrt

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Vizrt is the leader in real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators. With a 25-year history of inventing new simplified workflows for storytelling whether it is in the news, sports, broadcast, education, entertainment, live events, digital media, advertising, or anywhere else video lives, Vizrt has helped define and reshape the way video is created and shared with the world. Dedicated to delivering ground-breaking solutions for customers across graphics, cloud, remote and live production, live streaming, sports productions, virtual reality and virtual studios, and infrastructure – Vizrt enables more stories, better told. In a world where attention spans are short, grabbing and holding onto audiences for entertainment, education or information requires craft, design, and vision. Vizrt’s team of 24/7 on-call experts and market-leading creative solutions, offers everything storytellers need to dazzle audiences, simply, effectively, and beautifully. Billions of people watch stories or video powered by Vizrt everyday including from media companies such as Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC, NHL, NFL, NRK, Sky Group, The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, New York Giants, Nickelodeon, CBS Radio, ESPN Radio, MTV, USA TODAY, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), NASA, PWC, and more than 80% of the U.S. Fortune 100. Vizrt is a global company with 700 employees in over 40 countries and is privately owned by Nordic Capital.


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Bergen, Norway

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501-1,000

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