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About Us
acceler8 llc was founded to advise and provide solutions uniquely designed to accelerate the growth of small businesses. Our broad experience, combined with our ability to instill a sense of entrepreneurial vision and creativity allows acceler8 to identify the strategic direction required to accelerate revenue growth and provide the practical advice and professional solutions to the many challenges of managing a growing business.



Kjell C Andreassen is a Managing Partner of Acceler8 llc and the consulting firm Exit Planning Advisors LLC. He has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and advisor to a number of emerging and start-up ventures and has held senior executive positions with a number of public and private companies. He is an experienced instructor, teaching college and executive training courses in finance, international marketing and small business management. He is an Assistant Professor at Western International University and an Accredited Executive Associate of the Institute for Independent Business. Mr. Andreassen has an MBA from Arizona State University, a Master of Business and Marketing from Oslo Business School and a Postgraduate Degree in Business Education. He has served on a number of corporate Board of Directors and he has completed the Global Leadership Certificate Program at Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Business. Mr. Andreassen is a certified instructor with the Referral Institute of Central Arizona.

Oystein Konsmo is a Managing Partner of Acceler8 llc, and a senior business development executive and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of domestic and international experience. He has been a business consultant for more than ten years and has extensive experience in business planning, financial budgeting and controls, as well as management of start-ups and small, emerging companies. As the U.S. Managing Partner of an international sales and marketing consulting organization, he has developed deep knowledge of cross-cultural and international business etiquette/relationship issues relative to recruiting and managing business partners.

Mr. Konsmo earned an MBA from Arizona State University and has undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Construction Management from Oslo Business School and Oslo College of Engineering, respectively. He is a contributing moderator to the International Forum of www.softwareceo.com.

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