Egill Masson
Seasoned IT professional with operational and VC experience.
Currently Investment Manager at NSA Ventures, mainly focussing on IT companies.
At Kaupthing Bank in Iceland, I worked on enterprise IT, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. I also organized the establishment of a SW Architecture framework and team at Kaupthing.
Most of my career so far is spent in neurophysiological medical devices - I worked for Taugagreining hf, for 16 years, first in research and then as CEO for 7 years. After a trade sale of Taugagreining to CareFusion (NYSE-CFN) I did strategic marketing at CareFusion for 3 years.
After studying computer science and physics in at the University of Copenhagen, I was a staff scientist at the startup NeuroTech working on pattern recognition with neural networks.
Speak and write well Icelandic, English and Danish. Have working knowledge of Spanish and German. Good presentation and motivational skills.
Specialties: IT, Operations, R&D Management, Funding, SW Architecture, Product Innovation, Technical software