Meet the people behind TicketCo

Carl-Erik Michalsen Moberg has worked in events since he was 16. He started his entrepreneurial journey at 19, renting cruise ships and filling them with passengers travelling between Norway, Denmark, and the UK. With a background from the Norwegian Business School and seven years as a Marketing Director for one of the largest restaurant groups in Norway, he founded TicketCo with former CEO Kåre Bottolfsen in 2012. After almost 10 years as the company’s CSO, Carl-Erik took over as CEO at the start of 2022.

With over 20 years of experience and a background in finance from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Odd Haaskjold has worked with startups and scaleups throughout his professional career, including Accenture and Skandiabanken bank (before it was acquired by EQT ventures in 2013). He joined TicketCo in 2017.

Kjetil Sørtun has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, primarily within the financial sector. Before he joined TicketCo, he was Head of Enterprise Architecture and Head of Banking Services at Sparebanken Vest between 2018 and 2021. Prior to this, he was a Consultant at TietoEnator, College Lecturer and Assistant Professor II at NITH, CTO at Delfidata, CTO at Odin Systemer, and Senior Manager at KPMG Norway. He joined TicketCo at the end of 2021.

Mateusz Drachal has extensive experience in the event industry. He was a Project Manager for one of the largest ticketing companies in Poland before he was appointed Head of Operations of the Polish branch of CTS Eventim. In 2016, Mateusz joined TicketCo as a Customer Success Agent. Today, he oversees our Customer Success Department and makes sure that our ever-growing customer base has a great TicketCo experience. 

David Kenny started his professional career in the event industry in 1999. After founding and managing Gorilla UK Ltd and Gorilla Events Ltd for several years, he worked as a freelance Event Organiser, Event Marketing Consultant, and Entrepreneur through Hobo Events for four years – alongside owning and operating Moog (a live music, bar and kitchen venue). Between 2010 and 2013, David was a Business Development Manager at Peppermint Events Ltd, operating and developing multiple live events across the UK. He was then Director at Event by Event Ltd for two years and Events Director at Freeman Event Partners for almost four years before joining TicketCo in 2018.

Dag Frode Algerøy started his professional career in the media industry as Head of Circulation at Bergensavisen in 2001, before entering the football industry as Head of Private Sales at SK Brann in 2009 – a position he held for almost eight years. In 2016 he was recruited as TicketCo's first Country Manager. Since then, he has had a strong impact on building TicketCo's leading position within the Norwegian football industry. Dag is educated in direct marketing and market communication from BI Norwegian Business School.

Tom Rasmussen has a prolific background in the arts and entertainment industry, where he worked as an artist manager, concert promoter, and theatre producer for 15 years before accepting an offer to be the Head of Programme for Norway’s official 100th anniversary in 2005. After this, he spent some time as a publisher and publishing editor before putting his accumulated skills to use as a public relations advisor in 2010. Parallel to his illustrious career, he is also a novelist, newspaper columnist, and musician. He joined TicketCo in 2019.