Lars Andrew Kirste

Oslo Area, Norway Norway

Analytics Sales Specialist at IBM

Technology / Software / Internet

At IBM Analytics I help clients gain insight from data and develop their analytics strategy. My strength lies in working with both technologists and line-of-business, translating technology into business value and vice versa. This can be in meetings with clients or presentations etc.. I also love entrepreneurship, from starting my own venture to assisting other startups in my role at IBM. I like to read about a number of topics both in books, magazines and blogs. In finance I am a big fan of Taleb, especially "The Black Swan" and "Antifragile", as well as most books by Michael Lewis. In technology (especially Artificial Intelligence) I liked "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins and "How to ...