About Raa Labs

Christian is currently CFO in Wilhelmsen where he is responsible for finance, accounting, M&A, strategy, treasury, legal and compliance. Before joining the group management team in Wilhelmsen, he spent four years as partner in Hitec Vision, a private equity company, and 14 years, including six as CEO, in Hafslund ASA. He was educated at the NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway between 1990-1994.

Anna is a VP Investor Relations in Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA. Prior to joining Wilhelmsen, she spent six years in Nordea’s Corporate Banking division with a primary focus on shipping and offshore as well as two years in EY’s Audit & Assurance team. Anna holds a MSc in Finance from NHH Norwegian School of Economics.

Alex Skaugen is Vice President New Energy at Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA, focusing on investments, digitalisation, and energy transition opportunities in the maritime and energy sectors. He has previous experience from investment banking and management consulting covering offshore industries and holds a MA in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews.

Ari is the CEO of Raa Labs. Prior to his role as CEO of Raa Labs, Ari was Chief Transformation Officer in Wallenius Wilhelmsen. Previously, Ari served as a Director within a global maritime management consulting unit in DNV GL. He also has experience from technology investing with a leading Nordic venture capital company, as well as from academia. Ari holds a MSc in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Universität St.Gallen.

Eirik is Head of Strategy at Raa Labs. He began his career as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), followed by several years in strategy and market analysis at Wallenius Wilhelmsen. He has also held a CFO role at an early-stage technology company before joining Raa Labs. Eirik holds an MSc in Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Robert brings more than 15 years of experience from the maritime industry, with a consistent focus on project management and customer delivery. At Raa Labs, Robert leads the Customer Success function, ensuring customers achieve real value from their vessel data through structured onboarding, engagement, and follow through. He holds a degree in Systems Engineering from the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Yngvild Slettevold is Head of Operations and Support at Raa Labs. She joined Raa Labs in 2020 as Customer Success Manager. Prior to Raa Labs, Yngvild held engineering and project roles in the offshore and maritime industry, at AF Gruppen and Subsea 7. Yngvild holds an M.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Glenn leads platform engineering at Raa Labs. An engineer by training, he began his career as a Systems Officer on Royal Norwegian Navy fast patrol boats, responsible for sensor and weapon systems, and later joined Cisco, working across hybrid cloud and enterprise solutions. As Head of Platform Engineering, he owns the full edge-to-cloud stack, from the compute onboard vessels to the data pipelines serving some of the world's largest shipping operators, where data integrity is everything.

Sigbjørn leads the software department at Raa Labs. He holds an MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from NTNU and has been with the company since it was founded out of the Wilhelmsen Group in 2018, first as Solution Architect and now as Head of Software Engineering. His team is responsible for making vessel data feel effortless to work with, turning raw sensor streams into the products customers rely on day to day.

Marta Alonso Pontes is Delivery Lead at Raa Labs. She joined Raa Labs in 2023 as part of the Customer Success team. Prior to Raa Labs, Marta spent 11 years at DNV in the maritime area, working with the approval of electrical systems, first as Approval Engineer and later as Head of Section. Marta holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Comillas ICAI in Madrid.

Jon Magnus is a Maritime Data Engineer at Raa Labs, working with data quality, contextualization and software development. He makes sure onboard sensor data from vessels arrives accurate, consistent and ready to use. He holds an MSc from NTNU and brings experience with offshore time series data from his time at 4Subsea.

Andrea is Commercial Manager at Raa Labs, which she joined in 2021 as Customer Success Manager. She works with shipowners and operators to understand their needs and shape solutions that deliver value across their fleets. Prior to Raa Labs, she worked in the Environment Advisory section at DNV and served as Managing Director of the Maritime Battery Forum. Working with vessel data in different roles has shown her that decisions are only as good as the data behind them. Andrea holds an M.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), with additional studies in informatics and business administration.

As a Platform Engineer, Victor works on the systems that reliably move data from vessels to shore and turn it into something customers can use. His background spans that whole path, from hardware to the cloud. Victor started at Silicon Labs, writing software close to the metal for wireless and IoT devices, and at N2 Applied, he built industrial software for agriculture. Working in an energy storage start-up, he led the embedded team working on the control logic for the storage systems, and has also worked as a consultant within IoT and edge development, connecting industrial equipment to the cloud. With an MSc in Engineering Cybernetics from NTNU as a foundation, he brings a systems-level view to building a platform that is robust, scalable, and grounded in how industrial assets actually operate.

Siri is Data Engineering and Quality Lead at Raa Labs. She joined the company in 2020 after completing the Digital Trainee program at Wilhelmsen Group. Since then she has worked across data engineering and customer success, which gave her a close view of both the data and the customers who rely on it. Today she leads the team responsible for making sure vessel data is accurate, consistent and fit for purpose. Siri holds an MSc in Marine Engineering from NTNU.

Craig is a Platform Architect at Raa Labs, responsible for the architecture of both the cloud and edge platforms, including the compute onboard vessels. He has spent more than fifteen years in infrastructure, including leading the team behind an online gaming platform serving several European markets and building the infrastructure to run Cognite's data platform across multiple clouds. He cares about the unglamorous things done well: reproducible infrastructure, solid observability, and a platform that behaves the same on the hundredth deployment as on the first.

Sondre shapes Raa Labs' maritime data architecture, setting the standards that give vessel data structure and context at fleet scale. Working across product and engineering, he brings that architectural perspective to every stage of the data lifecycle, from software development and data quality to monitoring and analysis. Sondre joined Raa Labs in 2020 as Digital Delivery Engineer, after starting his career as a Digital Trainee in the Wilhelmsen Group. He holds an MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from NTNU and a bachelor's degree in Music from Volda University College.

Harald Mo is a Maritime Data Engineer at Raa Labs. He joined Raa Labs in 2025, after having already spent two years within the Wilhelmsen Group. As part of the Data Engineering and Quality team, Harald works with data quality and enrichment, ensuring customers can put their vessel IoT data to work with minimal friction. He holds an MSc in Marine Engineering from NTNU, specializing in marine cybernetics.

Tore is a Customer Support Engineer at Raa Labs, where he helps our customers keep vessels connected. Much of his day is spent tracking down connectivity issues between ship and shore, often in complex dialogues with multiple stakeholders across the shipping industry. Behind the scenes, he designs smart alerting that scales with a growing fleet. Before Raa Labs, Tore spent three years at Advania in IT support, incident management and delivery coordination. He holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems.

As a Platform Engineer at Raa Labs, Eszter works with the cloud infrastructure supporting developers and vessel deployments. With a background in site reliability engineering, infrastructure automation, and software development, she focuses on keeping the platform reliable and efficient. Her work covers the less visible parts of the platform, from managing resources and costs to maintaining services and making sure systems remain fit for purpose as they evolve.

Rafael is a Solution Architect at Raa Labs, where he builds software products that capture fleet-wide sensor data and make it intuitively accessible to customers. Prior to joining Raa Labs, he worked at KPMG and has broad consulting experience within the offshore and maritime industries, working across a wide range of projects and technologies. Rafael holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Zurich.

Gaute is Commercial Manager at Raa Labs. He joined Raa Labs in 2022 and has since worked closely with major shipowners on digitalization projects, helping them use vessel data to optimize their operations and reduce emissions. Before Raa Labs, he held engineering roles across both ship design and marine operations at Damen Naval and GPO Heavylift. Gaute holds an MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Espen is a Technical Project Manager at Raa Labs, leading customer projects from planning through to onboard installation and handover to operations. He joined Raa Labs in 2023 as part of the Delivery team. Prior to Raa Labs, Espen spent eight years as an electrical engineer at Kongsberg Maritime, working on the Gina Krog FSO conversion and as Discipline Lead on the research vessel Atair 2. He then spent two years at Wood on Equinor tie-in projects, including Grane for the Breidablikk tie-back, and as Discipline Lead on Gassco's gas receiving terminals in Zeebrugge and Dunkerque. Espen holds a BEng in Maritime Electrical Power and Automation Systems from USN and an MA in Intellectual History from UiO.