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Title: Havard Lillebo Connects Deep Technology with Global Industrial Opportunity

North Vancouver, BC, Canada, 5th Nov 2026 -  Havard Lillebo is applying more than two decades of company building to a portfolio of technology ventures that includes Nanize and Havguard. His career connects industrial finance with the practical work of developing new businesses, from solar cell manufacturing and data centre planning to autonomous robotics and advanced surface materials. The story began in the early 2000s with View Start, an internet video technology venture. Lillebo later became finance manager at REC Scan Cell in Narvik, entering a manufacturing industry where technical performance, production economics and access to capital were closely connected. That experience provided the setting for his next entrepreneurial chapter. In 2008, Lillebo co-founded Innotech Solar with Dr Timothy Lommasson and Bard Andreassen. Their business addressed an overlooked opportunity in the solar supply chain: upgrading lower-grade solar cells so they could become useful, commercially attractive products. Investor Investinor documented the company’s origins and reported NOK 150 million raised in grants and risk capital by the time of its 2009 annual report. An early decision revealed how Lillebo approached leadership. Soon after establishing Innotech Solar, he helped bring in the more experienced Thor Christian Tuv as CEO and worked alongside him. In a 2023 Forbes interview, Lillebo recalled that the team built the company to 180 employees, multiple factories and €35 million in revenue. His account gives the achievement its proper scale: a founder helping assemble the people and resources required to operate an international manufacturing business. That period also brought national recognition. In 2011, Lillebo won E24’s Ledertalentene award, recognis...

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