Summary
Alexander Nossum is a technology leader with 12 years of experience at the intersection of people, business, IT and location technology, currently heading Digitization and Innovation at Norkart. He holds a PhD in location technology from NTNU and combines deep academic expertise with hands-on product and platform scaling—having progressed from GIS system integrator to CTO and now leading strategic innovation. Alexander regularly teaches and supervises university students, advising industry on applied geomatics and helping translate research into operational location data platforms. A co-founder with startup experience and an ongoing industry advisory role, he brings a rare blend of entrepreneurial drive, technical depth in geomatics, and organizational change capability. Notably, he steers efforts to operationalize location data at scale in Norway while maintaining active ties to academia.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology