Line Klit Olsen
CEO of Pufin ID
Line Klit Olsen
CEO of Pufin ID
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2022 - Current
Making Pufin ID a commercial success: Leading the successful growth journey of Pufin ID from a deep-tech startup to a global, business focused, solution provider. Pufin ID's PUF technology makes it possible to add a copy-proof, smartphone-readable fingerprint to any physical items - providing the item with a digital twin that enables product authentication, traceability, and unlocks the potential of digital business models for physical products. Keywords: Proof-Of-Business, Fundraising, Investor Relations, Global Scale-Up and Market Expansion, Solution and Service Expansion.
COO
2021 - 2022
Maturing and transitioning the PUF technology into a market-ready solution: Establishing overview of the PUF technology invention, aligning customer and PUF solution requirements, creating plans and securing resources for a successful first PUF solution release. Management Keywords: Technology Proof-Of-Concept (POC), Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Innovation and Usability, Customer and Partner Relations. Technology Keywords: Material Science, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Neural Networks, Cloud Computing, DevOps, MLOps, Production Machinery Automation, Mobile App. Reporting to: CEO Span of control: Up to 20 employees and external consultants across Europe
Chairman of the Board ~ Advisor and consultant
2022
I'm working closely with the founder team to scale SENS Innovation into a sizable HealthTech company with a European footprint. Results to far: * Revenue increase of x3 in both 2022 and 2023 * Operational readiness for European expansion from 2024
Owner
2019
Enabling successful company growth journeys by providing strategy and execution guidance within Sales, Business Development, Technology, Operations, and fundraising.
Partner
2019
Venture investors and experienced advisors for Danish growth companies.
Member of the Board of Directors
2011
Member of the Board of Directors (family company).
Director Global R&D
2018 - 2021
Transforming BLUETOWN's R&D organization into a reliable scale-up ready unit that delivered mature hardware, software, and service solutions: Formalizing BLUETOWN's technology strategy, ensuring the right strategic and operational partnerships, and implementing processes and tools for efficient product road mapping, test, release, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Management keywords: Strategic Product and Technology Roadmaps, Change Management, Delivery Management, Technology Partnerships, Nearshoring, Outsourcing. Technology keywords: Radio and Wireless Access Networks (RAN/WAN), Content Management Distribution (CMD), Edge Computing, IoT, Solar Power, Cloud Solutions, DevOps. Reporting to: COO Span of control: 5-25 internals and externals across Europe, South Africa, India, and Japan Industry: Telecommunications, Internet Service Providing (ISP), Infrastructure
Director, Technology and Operations India (interim)
2018 - 2018
Proving BLUETOWN’s ability to deploy and operate infrastructure within company cost and scaling targets: Growing BLUETOWN India from 5 to 30 employees, establishing regional office in Jharkhand, establishing BLUETOWN's Global Network Operations Center (NOC), overseeing production transfer and volume production ramp-up, and delivering BLUETOWN's first large-scale network consisting of 3.500+ Wi-Fi access points. Key words: Establishing Green Field Operations, Strategic Customer and Supplier Relations, Infrastructure Deployment and Operations, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Production. Reporting to: General Manager of BLUETOWN India Pvt. Ltd. Span of control: 30 direct reports, 100+ contractors Industry: Telecommunications, Internet Service Providing (ISP), Infrastructure
Director, Global Deployment Projects
2015 - 2018
Ensuring business-driven portfolio and project governance: Establishing and implementing BLUETOWN's global deployment project framework across Africa, Middle East and Asia while being accountable for successful portfolio management and project delivery globally. Key words: Project Management Office (PMO), Portfolio, Program, and Project Management. Reporting to: COO Span of control: 5 direct reports & dotted-line reports in Tanzania, Ghana, and India Industry: Telecommunications, Internet Service Providing (ISP), Infrastructure
Program Manager, Senior Project Manager
2015 - 2015
Consolidating the Dako-branded software product development projects into one, global program where aligned product releases resulted in increased commercialization potential and a significant reduction in verification and validation cost. Key words: Global collaboration, distributed teams, performance and throughput optimization, contract management, outsourcing, R&D, SCM, global roll-out, CE-IVD compliance. Reporting to: Senior Director for Portfolio and Project Management Program reporting to: VP Pathology Division; Diagnostics and Genomics Program size: 100+ internals and externals, distributed across US, Switzerland, Scandinavia and India. Industry: Life science, cancer diagnostics
Senior Project Manager
2013 - 2014
Managing all activities required to expand the molecular proposition on Dako Omnis, i.e. hardware and software development, Dako developed class III CE-IVD reagents, options for use of 3rd party reagents, sourcing, production and global launch.
Project Manager
2011 - 2013
Managing the instrument, application and server software development projects for the business critical Dako Omnis solution. The projects encompassed initial scoping, planning, implementation, verification and validation, supplier and contract management and global launch.
R&D Manager for Accelerator Control System, Software Team
2009 - 2011
Leading the team towards finalizing the first version of the Accelerator Control System Software: Planning and oversight of internal and external solution deliverables, integration, system testing and preparing of Accelerator Control Software commissioning together on-site accelerator management team. Reporting to: VP, Particle Therapy and Electronics Span of control: 6 people and external implementation partners Industry: Life science, particle therapy, cancer treatment
Project and quality management consultant
2005 - 2009
As consultant: Supporting customers on project and quality management assignment. As HiQ's internal Quality Manager: Establishing a Quality Management System that supported HiQ in expanding from selling consultants hours only, to delivering full customer projects.