Stefania Olafsdottir

Co-Founder & CEO at Avo

Stefania Olafsdottir is the co-founder and CEO of Avo. Prior to Avo, Stefania was a co-founder and chairperson at Viska from January 2017 to December 2017. At Viska, Stefania was responsible for all aspects of founding the company and launching the product, including funding, business strategy, market and competition analysis, finding product / market fit, designing a go-to-market strategy, product management, business development and sales, customer relations, etc. Stefania also created a knowledge model that estimates current knowledge at all times and predicts how it will fade.

Prior to Viska, Stefania was at QuizUp from November 2013 to December 2016 as a revenue management server / data / revenue engineer. While at QuizUp, Stefania worked on exciting projects such as moving to NYC with a small team to open up an office for selling and developing QuizUp's B2B products, backend engineering for a new team and user management service with access roles and invites for QuizUp's B2B product, QuizUp at Work, understanding the mobile ads industry, automating ad revenue data exports from ten different ad revenue sources into own database, maintaining in-house ads service which removes the logic layer of which ads to serve from the mobile clients to simplify ad optimization, and optimizing ads servings to maximize revenue without impacting retention.

Stefania Olafsdottir has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Háskóli Íslands, a degree in Computer Science from Reykjavik University, and a degree in Social Sciences from Menntaskólinn á Akureyri.

Andy Carlson - Director of Sales, Brynja Huld Oskarsdottir - Chief of Staff, and Sölvi Logason - Co-Founder, Head of Product & CTO report to Stefania Olafsdottir.

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