Olav Balandin

Olav Balandin is CEO and Co-Founder of Diggecard. The company was founded when he moved back from US to Norway in 2014 and he discovered that the gift card industry was still stuck in the 90's. As a tech and gift card expert he is on a mission digitalizing the old gift card industry with new SAAS technology, and today Diggecard is  the preferred gift card partner for many tier1 companies all over the world.

Since early 2000 he has been involved in starting and building companies and he has more than 20 years’ experience in scaling globally in the bank, telco, fintech and gift card industry. He has an EXTREME passion for startups and entrepreneurship and has over years been involved in the startup ecosystem as friend, mentor, angel investor and facilitator of events and gatherings.