Hans-Ingar Løvstad appointed CEO of Advania Norway

The board of directors of Advania Group has appointed Sigurdur (Siggi) Thorsteinsson as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Advania Danmark, effective from 1st September 2023.

Sigurdur will succeed the interim CEO, Sten Mortensen.

Advania has agreed to divest two data centre leasing contracts in Finland to atNorth AB, a Nordic data centre provider.

Operating data centres is not part of Advania´s core offering, but services are provided through partnerships with leading data centre operators.  Through the divestment, Advania Finland can further streamline its IT-services offering with a best-of-breed partner handling the data centre operations.

To further broaden its offering in Denmark, Advania has acquired the IT infrastructure, storage and backup specialist CLOUDIO A/S. Advania will continue to build the highest level of IT-services to help customers on their digital journey.

The acquisition underpins Advania’s ambition to become the preferred IT-services provider in Northern Europe with a holistic offering to existing and new customers.

As of 1 November 2022, Hege Støre will take over as the Advania Group's group CEO.

Mikael Noaksson, the current CEO, will continue as a full-time strategy executive and is appointed a new member of the board.

Content+Cloud today announced that Geoff Kneen will become CEO.

Peter Sweetbaum will move to a new role within parent company Advania Group, taking on a wider brief as Head of New Markets.

The transaction includes a transfer of highly specialised employees and a state-of-the-art logistic center tailored for Front End Services.

This will allow Advania to continue to build the highest level of quality hardware solutions for its customers.

Scania, a global provider of transport solutions, is turning connected vehicle data into smarter maintenance, streamlined operations, and increased customer value.

With over 600,000 connected vehicles and 25,000 daily workshop visits, the company needed a scalable platform to accelerate digital transformation across its global service network.

With the acquisition of eXspend AS, Advania will continue to build on the highest level of professional services to help customers on their digital journey.

The acquisition underpins Advania’s ambition to become the preferred IT services provider in Northern Europe with a holistic offering to existing and new customers.

With the acquisition of the Microsoft Dynamics specialist Azzure IT Limited, Advania will leverage the scale and experience from both companies to help clients transform how they work by unifying business processes and systems.

The acquisition underpins Advania’s ambition to become the preferred IT services provider in Northern Europe with a holistic offering to their existing and new customers.

With the acquisition of Valtti, Advania will leverage the combined future-ready suite of products and services in Finland to help customers on their digital journey.

The acquisition underpins Advania’s ambition to create the preferred IT-services provider in Northern Europe with a holistic offering to their existing and new customers.

Advania AB will further grow products and services to help customers on their digital journey by joining forces with the highly skilled, Norwegian-based security specialist Painkiller AS.

"We believe the opportunity to join forces with Advania will enable us to further develop and improve our security offering to the Nowegian market. Our team will continue to focus on our existing customers and together with Advania excel our delivery capabilities. We are truly excited to work alongside Espen Hartz and the rest of the Advania team," says Johan Rolf, CEO of Painkiller.

With the acquisition of Content+Cloud Limited (“C+C”), Advania will leverage the deep cloud and Microsoft knowledge from C+C to offer a highly compelling, future-ready suite of products and services to help customers on their digital journey.

This also marks the first strategic expansion outside the Nordics.