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Hans-Ingar Løvstad appointed CEO of Advania Norway
Advania has appointed Hans-Ingar Løvstad as CEO of its Norwegian operations, effective immediately. Løvstad was previously Managing Director of Consulting and brings almost 30 years of experience in IT services, consulting and leadership in Norway to the role.
Løvstad joined Advania in 2022 through the acquisition of eXspend, the IT and business consultancy he founded and led. Since then he has been part of Advania Norway’s management team, leading the consulting business and building closer relationships with the organisations it serves. He previously held senior roles in consulting, software sales and bid management at one of the Nordic region’s largest IT companies, and started his career as an officer in the Norwegian Armed Forces.
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Advania is a technology company built on a simple conviction: IT creates more value when the people delivering it are close to the customer. That belief goes hand in hand with another: technology should serve people, not the other way around. The best IT partnerships are built on close listening, a real understanding of how organisations work in practice, and a commitment to making technology feel less like a burden and more like an enabler of what matters most.
The organisations we work with operate in a constant tension. They are too complex for standardised solutions, yet rarely resourced to master every dimension of modern IT on their own. That is why Advania is structured around local teams across the Nordics and the UK, with the authority to act and the responsibility to understand each customer’s business, operations and risks.
We support our customers across the full spectrum of modern IT — from infrastructure, cloud and cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, managed services and lifecycle management. This allows us to take end-to-end responsibility for designing, building and running the technology environments our customers depend on.
This proximity shapes how we deliver. It informs how we help organisations adopt artificial intelligence safely and at scale, strengthen resilience in an evolving threat landscape, and manage technology across its full lifecycle.
Across more than 30,000 organisations, this approach has created something rare: partnerships that grow in value over time.