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Origination

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About us

Uniting founders, investors, policy leaders, and cultural voices committed to people-and-planet positive growth.

Origination is building a community of originators investing in service of the next seven generations, with a focus on frontier markets where strategic foresight and bold partnerships unlock outsized impact.

Osvald M. Bjelland

Osvald M. Bjelland

Founder & Chairman

Entrepreneur, investor, and cultural leader focused on people- and planet-positive growth. Founder of Origination AS and the Origination Foundation, uniting originators across business, policy, arts, and civil society with long-term foresight.

Minh-Huy Tran

Minh-Huy Tran

Chief Executive Officer

Telecommunications and infrastructure leader with deep experience in fiber deployment, connectivity, and capital investment, driving digital inclusion through public-private execution.

Business Executives & Senior Advisors

  • Antonio MerxiaAdvisor
  • Jacob KieferAdvisor
  • Svein BringelandAdvisor

Partneships

Strategic Partners

Origination Strategic partners are companies or organizations that collaborate to achieve long-term, mutually beneficial goals that go beyond standard transactions, leveraging shared resources, expertise, and strengths. Unlike simple suppliers, these alliances are built on shared objectives and create value neither party could achieve alone, often focusing on areas like new market expansion, joint product development, or increased market share.

Characteristics of a strategic partnership

Shared objectives

The relationship is designed to be a win-win, with both parties contributing and benefiting from the alliance. joint products.

Mutual benefit

Each side contributes complementary strengths, capital, and insight.

Resource sharing

Partners may share resources like technology, infrastructure, or expertise to strengthen core capabilities.

Long-term focus

These are not fleeting transactions but long-term collaborations focused on sustained success.

Independence

Partners typically remain independent companies, but share control over the joint venture, risks, and rewards.

Complementary strengths

The most effective partnerships involve companies with complementary strengths that don't directly compete for the same customers.

Excellence Partners

Excellence Partners represent the leading edge of knowledge and practice within Climate and Environmental Boundaries, Finance, Technology, and Leadership.

They bring depth, credibility, and world-class expertise to the Origination ecosystem - helping us set the standards for what "Good Growth" looks like in action.

These partners are thought leaders, innovators, and exemplars in their respective fields. Through their research, tools, and mentorship, they help ensure that every Origination initiative is grounded in excellence - scientifically robust, financially sound, technologically advanced, and guided by wise leadership.

Excellence Partners help us

Define new frontiers of sustainable performance and accountability.

Each side contributes complementary strengths, capital, and insight.

Integrate breakthrough technologies and financial models into transition projects.

Bridge cutting-edge knowledge with practical execution across industries and geographies.

Growth Partners

A core challenge for us trying to accelerate progress is to discover the right project opportunities, shape them into real actionable projects, and secure the necessary investments.

Our Growth Partners are highly respected, resourceful, connected and agile leaders who often have a track-record for both initiating, shaping and leading major projects and organisations.

Board of Directors

  • Geir Olsen
  • Thorhild Widvey
  • Osvald Bjelland

Our Mission

To build a community of originators investing in service of the next seven generations

Our Values

Courage

We take bold positions on behalf of future generations and frontier ideas.

Care

We place people and planet at the center of every investment and partnership.

Collaboration

We bridge public, private, and civic sectors to scale solutions no actor can deliver alone.

Commitment

We stay with long-horizon work from inception through measurable results.

Our Principles

The Origination Principles