Halvor Garaas
Vice President, Head Of Growth Marketing at Rystad Energy
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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SeniorHalvor Garaas is a growth marketing and analytics leader with 13 years of experience building data-driven marketing capabilities across global teams. As a VP and former senior leader at Cisco, he has led multi-country teams of analysts, data scientists, and engineers to operationalize AI, demand scoring, and unified analytics foundations that materially improved pipeline and revenue. He combines hands-on delivery—connecting 20+ marketing channels to a single analytics stack and shipping award-winning AI-driven marketing products—with strategic storytelling to translate complex models into executive decisions. Comfortable working across the US, Europe, and Asia, he balances technical rigour in MLOps and CDP/ADP integrations with vendor, legal and ethics oversight. Known for turning advanced analytics into self-serve insights and measurable business outcomes, he also brings an unusual early-career background in naval operations that sharpened his discipline and operational focus.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
English, Norwegian, French, Chinese, French
Github Skills (102)
guice10
twitter9
blocking9
warnings9
rest-api9
plugin9
circe9
docker9
finch9
finagle9
json-api9
json-schema-validator9
equality8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
halvorgb/axisofX
Jun 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:82 commits, 1 push in 4 years
hooplab/hoopla-serializer-scala
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 months
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