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Thomas Anglero

Founder at MerkabaPhi AS

Oslo, Norway

I am a three-time technology pioneer, keynote speaker, author of Intro to Artificial Intelligence, and Strategic AI Advisor to executive leaders and boards.

In 1993, I was among the first ten people in the world to make a voice call over the internet. I became CEO of Free World Dialup — the world's first peer-to-peer voice network and a direct predecessor to Skype — and was featured on CNN's Maverick of the Day to three million viewers. The VoIP industry I helped build is now valued at over $100 billion globally.

In 2014, I founded the IBM Watson Lab for Cancer at the Oslo Cancer Cluster — the first AI laboratory for cancer research embedded within a European cancer campus. It became a gathering point for doctors, researchers, and media across Europe, and opened the door for AI in healthcare as a serious discipline.

As Nordic CTO at Cognizant, I led AI strategy and digital transformation across the region and closed over $500 million in enterprise deals spanning energy, banking, telecom, and public sector. I redesigned how Norway's Tax Authority approaches innovation and change management. I held senior technology leadership positions at Ericsson and Telenor. I have founded four technology companies.

Thomas Anglero Points
Academic 0
Author 5
Influencer 54
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 59

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Company Type: Individual
Business Unit: Technology
Theatre: Europe and North America
Minimum Project Size: $10,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $300+
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: 2015

Areas of Expertise

AI 30.05
Business Strategy 30.03
Digital Transformation 30.03
Innovation 30.03
Leadership 30.07

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5 Author Newsletters
Your Partners Are Failing You
Linkedin
June 03, 2026
You are sitting in a meeting, listening to the same partner you have worked with for years present their quarterly update. The slides are sharp. The language is confident. The recommendations sound reasonable. And somewhere in your chest, there is a tightness you cannot name because the results are not coming.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Leadership

Set Low Goals. Automate the Obvious. Fail Quietly.
Linkedin
May 27, 2026
If the last article you read about AI told you to start with mundane tasks and redefine your KPIs downward, you are being set up to fail. Quietly. Politely. With dashboards that prove you achieved exactly what you aimed for — which was nothing worth achieving.

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Tags: AI, Innovation, Leadership

75% of CEOs Think a Fellow CEO Will Be Fired Over AI
Linkedin
May 20, 2026
CLARITY AT THE TOP — EDITION 8

You already know the statistics. 75% of CEOs believe a fellow CEO will be fired over a failed AI implementation. 62% say their boards are actively demanding measurable AI outcomes. 56% admit their competitors have a stronger AI strategy than they do.

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Tags: AI, Business Strategy, Leadership

The Most Expensive Decision a Leader Makes (It's Not the Wrong One)
Linkedin
May 13, 2026
You have been in that room.

Someone stood in front of you — your team, a vendor, a young hire with too much conviction — and presented something you had never heard before. No case study behind it. No precedent. No comfortable benchmark to point to and say, this is why it will work.

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Tags: Leadership

The Reason AI is Not Producing Value in Your Business
Linkedin
May 05, 2026
You are investing in AI. The numbers on your monthly review confirm it. Adoption is going up. Licenses are being used. Your teams are onboarded.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Leadership

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