Founder Harald Olderheim tells pv magazine time is right for Otovo co-founder Simen Fure Jørgensen to take on chief executive role, as the company pursues trans-Atlantic growth strategy. Adding data center features to solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) project design tools is a natural next step, according to Jørgensen.
Glint Solar is targeting expansion in the US market and seeking new opportunities in the data center segment – and the Norwegian solar and battery storage software company has appointed a new CEO to support its ambitions.
Simen Fure Jørgensen brings AI sector and startup scaling experience to Glint Solar. Jørgensen was the co-founder of Otovo, a European residential solar platform that uses Ai monitoring for system optimization.
“It was my idea to get him in,” said Harald Olderheim, co-founder of Glint Solar and now former CEO. “I’ve seen what he’s done with Otovo and he scaled the team to 400 people and took it on the stock exchange. He took a Norwegian solar software tech company to a lot of countries so I asked him to join.”
Olderheim told pv magazine he will still be active in the business, leading the company’s US expansion. Olderheim argued that to succeed in the US market “you really need a good founder presence.”
