About Us

Oystein Konsmo, a senior business development executive and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of domestic and international experience, is the principal of Arizona Technology Trading & Consulting.  He has been a business consultant for more than ten years and has extensive experience in business planning, financial budgeting and management of start-ups and small, emerging companies. As the U.S. Managing Partner of The York Group, an international sales and marketing consulting organization, he has developed deep knowledge of cross-cultural and international business etiquette/relationship issues relative to recruiting and managing business partners.  Me. Konsmo is also a Managing Partner with acceler8, a consulting group that helps small and medium size businesses accelerate the growth of their bottom line.

Mr. Konsmo consulted to a medical and health services company for several years where he provided assistance to the executive team on a variety of business matters, including finance, operations, project management and information technology.  Mr. Konsmo co-founded, raised capital, managed and served on the Board of a wireless application company and established partnerships with major customers and industry leaders, such as Coca-Cola, LM Ericsson, Hitachi and Norwegian Telecom. He co-developed a patent that several years later was acquired by a leading provider of wireless, cashless, micro-transactions and networking services in the U.S. Mr. Konsmo has been the General Manager of an ISV that developed Production Control and CAD software for construction companies and has project management experience from that same industry.

Mr. Konsmo earned an MBA from Arizona State University and has undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Construction Management from Oslo Business School and Oslo College of Engineering, respectively.  He is a contributing moderator to the International Forum of www.softwareceo.com and has been a member of The National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA) Vending Technology Standards Committee.  He is a graduate of Dale Carnegie’s seminar in Effective Speaking and Human Relations and has been a speaker at several business development events hosted by The U.S. Department of Commerce, Silicon Valley Bank and law firms catering to the technology community.