About us

About Kvant

Kvant is a recruitment and consulting company that assists clients in acquiring high quality talent and developing their business. We are a team of high performing, motivated and skilled advisors with deep industry knowledge and hands on experience from finance, strategy and consulting. Our vision is to create a new standard for premium recruitment services by bridging the gap between business strategy and recruitment strategy. Kvant was created with the purpose of providing a niche high end recruitment service, focused on Management consulting, finance, strategy and business development.

Our focus areas

Management Consulting

We specialize ourselves in recruitment of management consultants. Through an extensive network and a team of top consultants, we provide superior access and insight into this market.

Strategy & Business Development

We frequently help businesses identify and acquire top talent for executive and staff positions within strategic and business oriented functions. As strategy consultants we provide a deeper understanding of competence required for these types of roles.

Finance

Our team has hands-on experience from financial roles and extensive experience working with finance functions and financial institutions.

Commercial

Whether you sell cars or newspapers you will need the right people to build, grow and sell your business. Our consultants have experience with recruitment for these functions as well as strategic and operational improvement of commercial organisations.

Meet our team

Ole Kristian Lohnaas

CEO & Partner

+47 915 91 589

Ole holds an MSc in Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics alongside experience from management consulting, within strategy, profit improvement and financial analysis across several sectors. With experience from a top tier consulting firm Ole brings strong project management skills, industry knowledge and business acumen. As CEO and Partner in Kvant he works closely with executive clients on a strategic and operational level, aiming to create a more business centric and seamless recruitment experience.

Øivind F. Persen

COO & Partner

+47 473 74 423

Øivind holds an MSc in Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics and has broad experience from strategy consulting and the maritime sector. Øivind brings broad international experience from various management positions in Europe and Asia.

Markus Ringstad

Senior Consultant

+47 458 47 181

Markus holds an MSc in Economics & Strategy from Imperial College London and a BSc in Finance from Boston University. He has experience from asset management and the start-up world, and spent 2 years working as a strategy consultant in Accenture covering a range of industries and functions. As a Senior Consultant at Kvant, Markus is responsible for leading projects from start to finish, and expand a rapidly growing portfolio of clients.

Vemund Hirkjølen

Associate

+47 919 14 117

Vemund has a degree within Organisational Psychology, HR and Leadership from BI Norwegian Business School. As an Associate at Kvant he takes part in our recruitment project teams, mainly working with research, analysis and talent acquisition. Being one of our longest running assets hes had a key role in our fast-growing journey and gained significant industry experience.

Emilie Westlye Stokke

Associate

+47 957 49 043

Emilie has taken a Masters degree within Strategic HR. As an Associate she takes part in our project teams, assisting with research, analysis and talent acquisition. She has been a part of Kvant since April 2021. As an Associate she has gained significant industry experience, working on a number of both commercial and strategic projects.

Ingrid Landmark

Associate

+47 988 07 811

Christian Albertsen

Senior Consultant

+47 932 92 243

Julie With

Consultant

+47 414 05 490

Helle C. Sandberg

Consultant

+47 995 75 258

What we are all about

The Kvant Experience

Our vision is to create a new standard for premium recruitment services by bridging the gap between business strategy and recruitment strategy. We create an effortless and high quality experience for our clients through business oriented and highly talented consultants.

We are management consultants helping you optimize your most important asset - your people. By understanding your business model, strategic roadmap and ultimately required competence, we are able to effectively identify and acquire the right talent, maximizing the potential of your business.

Our client promise

At heart we solve business problems, and we make your problems our own!

We consider people the most important asset of most businesses, and we strive to help you maximize the potential of your assets.

Must win battles

Be great ambassadors for your brand
Make sure we thoroughly understand your business
Make the process effortless and intuitive
Be relevant in discussions with you and candidates
Deliver on time, at expectation
Superior access to consulting talent

How, you may think?

People and process...

The consultant:
A team of consultants with experience from fast paced management consulting and a passion for business, customers and people. We provide a service, not a task, so prepare to be challenged.

Business at core:
We primarily focus on solving business problems. Starting at the core of what you want to achieve with your business, we provide both the analysis, plan and execution in terms of building your team.
Niche focus:
We focus on what we know best. With a laser focus on the Management Consulting Industry we are able to provide superior market insight and access. Our team has experience and vast network within consulting, finance and strategy.
Premium project management:
We are project nerds and our team has vast experience within project management. We dream about timelines, milestones, effective communication and deliverables. You’re welcome.
Structured analytical approach:
We use a structured and analytical methodology that makes it easy for you to access best practice, increase information and reduce risk throughout the project.

Our values

Ambitious

We believe in creating something that will change the way businesses build organisations and develop talent. We are hungry and ambitious on behalf of our customers and themselves. We believe that together with our customers we are able to achieve great things.

Quality-driven

Our company’s value and the value we create for our customers is the product of every little piece of work we do every day. We take pride in every single task at hand and aspire to be the very best at what we do.

Engaged

We strive to make a difference. Internally, for our customers and in our industry as a whole. We care and we put down the effort that shows it.

Joyful

As human beings, working with other humans, we like to have fun while doing it. We enjoy what we do, and we work to create a positive atmosphere on and off the clock, for us and everyone working with us.