E. Vidar Top

Current

Associate Partner at FranklinCovey
Board member at Gaiaware
Owner at One-on-One AS

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Past

Chairman of the board at Masterpiece
Board member at ICT Grenland
COO at Gaiaware

VP Sales & Marketing at eZ Systems
Sales Director at eZ Systems
Chairman of the board at IKT Grenland
Sales Manager at Hands AS
Sales & Marketing Manager at Microtech AS
Channel Manager at Oracle

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Education

Handelshøyskolen BI
Handelshøyskolen BI
Høgskolen i Telemark

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E. Vidar Top’s Summary

Author of "The 3 Energies Behind Sales Success", 3E and O®O (Triple-O) framework - proven persuasive methodology for complex sales. See http://oneonone.no/3e for information about 3E.

Published several research projects within sales and influence. (E.g. "Sales Call Planning - Planning to Sell, 2004" and "High-end Sales for Open Source, 2005".)

Founder of One-on-One, 2002 and 3E Code of Excellence, 2007. Frequent public speaker. Warmly engaged in the subject of "influence without manipulation".

Some articles by Top: http://ez.no/vidar_top

Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/vidartop

Private blog: http://vidartop.blogspot.com

E. Vidar Top’s Specialties:

From a management perspective: Sales and influence, innovation, marketing, negotiation, teaching, training, motivation, performance enhancement and public speaking on these topics.

E. Vidar Top’s Experience

Associate Partner

FranklinCovey

(Public Company; FC; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Consulting and training in the areas of strategy execution, customer loyalty, leadership and individual effectiveness.
Board member

Gaiaware

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Promoting Open Source Ajax development on the ASP.NET and Mono platform.
Owner

One-on-One AS

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

September 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)

Public speaking assignments and training of large groups in complex sales. Senior Executive coaching one-on-one. International research.
Chairman of the board

Masterpiece

(Design industry)

May 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Kick-starting profbox.com and providing entrepreneurial advice and network to establish international business and key relationships.
Board member

ICT Grenland

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2003 — September 2009 (6 years 1 month)

Non-Profit organization striving to combine and expand the power of high-quality Norwegian software development to international markets.
COO

Gaiaware

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — March 2008 (3 months)

Bringing new startup company to worldwide recognition and coverage.
VP Sales & Marketing

eZ Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Responsible for eZ revenue channels and market communication.
Sales Director

eZ Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Chairman of the board

IKT Grenland

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Sales Manager

Hands AS

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

The "HIT Team" was organized to save the parent and daughter companies from bankruptcy.
Sales & Marketing Manager

Microtech AS

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year )

Hardware and software combined to deliver complete solutions.
Channel Manager

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — December 2001 (2 years )

E. Vidar Top’s Education

Handelshøyskolen BI

Master , Influence Management , 2002 — 2005
Handelshøyskolen BI

Bachelor of Business Administration , Finance , 1996 — 1999
Høgskolen i Telemark

Candidatus Magisterii , English , 1994 — 1995