Anita Krohn Traaseth

Konsernleder/Group CEO, DSD AS. Vice chair, European Innovation Council (EIC), Chair Bocuse d’Or Norway. Former CEO of Innovation Norway & Hewlett-Packard. Bestselling author and founder of Nordic Powersuits.

📍 Oslo, Oslo, Norway🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Executive Board Member
Nov 2021
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) managing all the activities of the European Innovation Council and programmes related to small and medium-sized enterprises. Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EU_EISMEA Data protection: http://europa.eu/!fc89kC
Investor & Member Of The Executive Board
Oct 2021
Bikeloop AS produces a new bike parking automat that stores the bikes vertically with a very little footprint ideal for urban areas.
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2022
Founder & Creative director KROHN
Nov 2022
KROHN is a Norwegian slow-fashion brand founded in 2022, by business executive, Chair and Non-Executive director Anita Krohn Traaseth. KROHN introduces Nordic Powersuits, slow fashion, unisex, seasonless suits and more— all with a bold and rebellious, yet sophisticated Nordic approach. Universal design, all genders, ages 15-95. KROHN believes in competence, character, and clothing — in that specific order. KROHN seeks to redefine seasons with facts, hacks, and tools for people with drive - to encourage you to Claim Your Space. KROHN suits can only be Pre-Ordered to avoid overproduction, one of fashion’s biggest problem. Read our BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS .
2021
Executive Board Member
Nov 2021
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) managing all the activities of the European Innovation Council and programmes related to small and medium-sized enterprises. Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EU_EISMEA Data protection: http://europa.eu/!fc89kC
Investor & Member Of The Executive Board
Oct 2021
Bikeloop AS produces a new bike parking automat that stores the bikes vertically with a very little footprint ideal for urban areas.
Vriml
Founder
May 2021
2020
Executive Board Member
Jun 2020
A Norwegian foundation functioning as an "open culinary innovation system"​ for the norwegian high-end cuisine and norwegion food culture and culinary identity. Processes and decisions are based on a unique olympic model​ for personal and professional knowledge and skills, where culinary merits are at the very center of all activities. The foundation is preoccupied with three mayor tasks: "Podium in Lyon"​, "Position of the white brigade"​ and "National culinary culture"​, which are reach through talent aquisition and development for individual high-performing chefs and their teams, knowledge accumulation and diffusion and outreach activities like competitions, conferences and the culinary communication concept "Mat som forteller"​ (storytelling foods). Ambitious, inspirational and sustainable on behalf of chefs that wants to excel and through that makes the world a better place. Through its network the foundaton coordinate five times the resources of the P&L. It is run like a modern sports club​, and create opportunities for young chefs that dream about winning the thoughest competitions, and all established chefs that participate in coaching, training, selecting and judging. In this sense the activity is a huge intergenerational​ project. It is funded by private sponsors that for different reasons view the activity developed by the foundation as important.
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