
Director at Oracle, Speaker, Author, Wine Writer
London, United Kingdom

Director at Oracle, Speaker, Author, Wine Writer
London, United Kingdom
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• Trond Arne Undheim is a speaker, author, and entrepreneur, currently the Director Standards Strategy and Policy, EMEA for Oracle, and he recently published the management book Leadership From Below (2008).
• Trond writes the wine column at Color Magazine (http://colormagazineusa.com).
• He was previously a National Expert on eGovernment at the European Commission. Trond led the EUs good practice exchange initiative, epractice.eu, which displays cases totalling one billion euros in project implementation. Trond merged two huge websites owned by different directorates, led the Web 2.0 design, secured a 700% membership increase in 4 months of operation, tripled the number of monthly visitors, quadrupled the number of workshops and oversaw all product development.
• Trond was the Project Manager on software policy at the Norwegian Board of Technology, and a Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley in California. He co-founded several start-ups, including a think tank (www.liblab.no), and his own consulting firm.
• Trond is a popular speaker at international events, has written dozens of articles and publishes regularly on topics such as e-Government, knowledge management, Internet strategy, and social change. He is a reviewer for the Research Council of Norway and the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of ePractice (http://www.epracticejournal.eu).
• Trond obtained his Ph.D. (2002) in Technology Studies and Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and holds an MA (1998) in the Sociology of Publishing.
leadership, standards, wine and society, web 2.0 services, management, eGovernment, branding, product development, sales, foresight, business problem solving, public speaking, networking, open source, open standards, benchmarking, analysis, impact measurement, social science, writing, publishing, evaluation.
* Salzburg Fellow (2005)
* Norwegian Research Council Travel Grant for USA (1999)
* Erasmus scholarship for Italy (1995)
* Erasmus scholarship for Belgium (1993)