From Aqua-Kompetanse to Oceanbox
Oceanbox is strengthening its investment in customer support and close customer follow-up by establishing a dedicated Customer Success team. As part of this initiative, the company has appointed Erlend Mundal, who will join Oceanbox on 1 January and be based at the company’s office in Bergen.
Mundal joins Oceanbox from Aqua Kompetanse AS, where he served as Head of the Hydrodynamic Modeling Group. In this role, he worked extensively with model-based solutions for the aquaculture industry and brings broad experience in the use of ocean models for licensing processes, site assessments, and technical decision support. His work has involved close collaboration with both fish farmers and regulatory authorities.
He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics with a specialization in fjord oceanography and has extensive hands-on experience in the setup, execution, and analysis of oceanographic models for Norwegian coastal and fjord systems.
Strengthening customer value through applied modeling
At Oceanbox, Mundal will help ensure that customers gain greater practical value from model results in real-world applications. This includes use cases related to site understanding, particle dispersion, and the assessment of currents and water exchange around aquaculture facilities.
“Erlend has solid experience with how modeling is actually used in the industry, both from a technical and an operational perspective. An increasing number of stakeholders want to use modeling themselves—both to improve their understanding of local conditions and as decision support in dialogue with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority and other regulators. The Customer Success team will help customers succeed in this, and Erlend’s role will be an important part of that effort,” says Svenn Hanssen, CEO of Oceanbox.
Mundal is looking forward to joining Oceanbox
“I see a growing need in the industry for a better understanding of local current dynamics and particle dispersion, both in day-to-day operations and in discussions with regulators. Oceanbox has developed a tool that makes advanced modeling more accessible, and I look forward to helping ensure that it is applied even more effectively in practice,” says Mundal.
