Bendik Nicolai Blindheim

Professional Focus

• 15 years’ experience in executive search with additional background in management consulting
• C-suite, senior executive and board-level search as well as leadership assessment, succession planning, human capital strategy and culture change
• Broad industry expertise including energy, natural resources and cleantech, industrial and high tech, technology and healthcare/MedTech, and nonprofit organisations
• Clients include private equity firms, large privately held, listed and government-owned companies
• Proven expertise as an advisor on complex business undertakings such as post-merger integration and transformation
• Native Norwegian, fluent in English

Business Expertise

• Managing Partner at Norway’s leading executive search firm; prior roles as Partner and Administrative Director
• Partner and Practice Lead, Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical at one of Norway’s largest executive search firms
• Assignment Manager - Executive Search / Recruitment at a market-leading recruitment and talent advisory firm
• Project Manager and Senior Advisor at a management consulting firm
• Sales Manager at Visma, a leading Oslo-based business software firm
• Forum Manager at Microsoft
• Started career as a Researcher at a global leadership advisory and executive search firm

Sector Expertise

• Energy
• Cleantech
• Natural Resources
• Technology
• Telecom
• Manufacturing
• Finance
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Biotech
• MedTech
• Pharmaceuticals
• Professional Services
• Management Consulting
• Media & Communications
• Not-for-Profit

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Oslo Metropolitan University
• Executive Education - Leading Professional Service Firms at Harvard Business School
• Certified Olympic Coach and Business Coach, University of Agder and Olympiatoppen
• OPQ, G+, Hogan, Cut-e Certifications

Affiliations & Awards

• Board Member, Webstep, a listed software consulting company
• Board Member, LORN.TECH, tech startup
• Former European Council Member and Nomination Committee Member, AESC (Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants)
• Former Chair of the Nomination Committee for UNICEF Norway for three years