We build capability in the people who carry responsibility for difficult decisions. Boards, executive teams, founders, and companies moving between Malaysia and the North.
Mimir Sdn Bhd · Established 2004 · Kuala Lumpur
We are not a problem solving consultancy. We raise the standard of understanding inside an organisation, so that when the moment arrives the people in the room already know what they are looking at.
Mimir was established in Malaysia in 2004. Our practices connect Norway and the wider Nordic region to Malaysia in both directions, advise on the technology and sustainability decisions now reshaping how companies are governed, and work on the boards and risk structures that carry those decisions.
Every practice sells the same outcome. A better informed decision maker.
We are independent. We do not build systems, resell software, or take commission from any vendor whose work we assess.
Movement in both directions between Malaysia and Northern Europe, supported by people who work on both sides of it.
Advice for leadership teams deciding what technology belongs in their business, where artificial intelligence is worth using, and what has to be in place before either goes ahead.
Practical work on how risk is identified, escalated and reported, for organisations whose framework exists on paper but not in the room.
Work on what sits behind a sustainability position, rather than on the language used to describe it.
Work on how a board is composed, how it runs, and whether the information reaching it is good enough to decide on.
A defined education, training or coaching programme, priced per programme and delivered over an agreed period.
A scoped piece of advisory work with a fixed deliverable, a fixed fee and a stated end date.
Standing access for a board or management team, with an agreed allocation of time each month.
Bjarte is a technology entrepreneur and software architect with more than twenty five years in enterprise systems and emerging technology. He read Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Oslo.
He founded Mimir and has been its Chairman since incorporation in 2004. He is co-founder and Managing Director of Global AI Village, where he leads the development of an agricultural artificial intelligence system built in partnership with the National AI Office and the Ministry of Agriculture, now in pilot with Malaysian farmers.
He founded Suria Labs Development and led it from 2014 to 2023, building it into one of the country's established full stack development houses. Before that he founded Web Integration Technology, serving as its Chief Technology Officer from 2005 to 2022 and taking the company to MSC status. Earlier in his career, in Norway, he architected enterprise portal and content systems and consulted to Telenor.
He has sat on the board of the Malaysia Norway Business Council since 2007 and has chaired it since 2021, giving him close to two decades inside the bilateral relationship between the two countries.
His technical work spans artificial intelligence architecture, knowledge graphs and decision systems, enterprise Java platforms, industrial monitoring and control, and secure communications.
Norwegian by nationality and resident in Kuala Lumpur, he works across the Nordic and Southeast Asian markets and understands how business is done at both ends.
Liza is a corporate consultant and risk specialist. She advises on corporate governance, risk and sustainability, and sits on the boards of several public listed entities and non governmental organisations, where her work includes oversight of risk management.
She is the author of A Director's Legal Guide to Navigating the Corporate Board, published by Marsden Law Book Sdn Bhd, a 424 page work on directors' duties, fiduciary responsibility, shareholder rights and the governance of sustainability and artificial intelligence at board level. She is also the author of Outside Appearances Stories, published by Cherita Books.
She holds an ESG Practitioner Certification from AIADR and UNGCMYB and a Certificate in Leading Sustainable Corporations from the University of Oxford, together with an Executive Certificate in Islamic Banking and Finance from INSEAD.
She was involved in the Governance and Ethics committee of the National AI Office, Malaysia, contributing to the development of national artificial intelligence policy, and brings that experience to Mimir's work on AI governance. She is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia and the International Chamber of Commerce Malaysia.
Mimir works in an educational and general advisory capacity. We do not accept instructions on any dispute, transaction, regulatory filing or contentious matter, and we do not provide representation before any court, tribunal or authority. Where a matter requires professional advice of that kind, the client should appoint an adviser of its own choosing. We take no part in that appointment and receive no benefit from it.