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Executive profile
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Dr. Mozhgan Tavakolifard

Chief Data & AI Executive · enterprise AI from strategy to production

I take AI from idea to production and stand by the outcome.

Chief AI and Chief Data & AI leadership for large organisations.

Strategy, operations and product development in one leader.

Based in Oslo.

Large organisations

Large organisations are not new to me. I have worked at both ends.

Inside large organisations

  • At Accenture I grew the Data Science and AI team in Norway into a national practice.
  • At Schibsted I built personalisation and recommender systems for VG, Aftenposten, FINN.no and Blocket.
  • At Powel I was Chief Analytics Officer, reporting to the CTO.

As a founder

  • I built companies from zero and led the build of AI infrastructure that runs in production, most recently at AIZEN.
  • I know the whole path, from strategy to systems in operation.
Experience

Where the work was done

Newest first.

2024 to present

Founder & CEO

AIZEN

Led the build of AIZEN's evidence infrastructure, which uses AI to test selected claims from companies' own sustainability reporting against public sources, under a published method. It runs in production behind a public ESG Transparency Index for Norwegian companies, with two published editions (FY2024 and FY2025). As of November 2026, the FY2025 edition covers 46 Norwegian companies and 19,897 analysed claims. Methodology tested in a paid pilot with a Big Four audit firm (2025).

aizen-group.com

2023 to present

Founder & Chief AI Strategist

AI Alchemy Hub

Took AI from strategy to production for Multiconsult, a large Norwegian engineering and consulting group, including leading the team that brought MultiSecure, an AI tool for checking building documentation, from design into production. Also did AI and data work for clients in legal services and online grocery. The work covered AI platform development, document automation and data transformation.

Byggeindustrien on MultiSecure

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Partner, Data & AI

PA Consulting

Partner with P&L responsibility for Data & AI. Won through an RFP and delivered a smart supply-chain solution for a large Norwegian food distributor, and delivered a generative-AI data foundation for an international e-commerce company. Worked with manufacturers in Sweden and the UK on scaling data and AI.

Nov 2018 to Nov 2022

Norway Lead, Data Science & AI

Accenture

Grew Accenture's Data Science and AI team in Norway into a national practice, inside a large Nordic practice. Accountable for utilisation, profitability, hiring and team performance.

Delivered enterprise data and AI for large retail, fashion and banking organisations: data mesh and operating-model change, supply-chain AI and a framework for scaling data and AI. Led the design and delivery of a predictive-maintenance solution for oil production, from proof of concept to production.

Apr 2017 to May 2018

Chief Analytics Officer

Powel (now Volue)

Reporting to the CTO, built the machine-learning and data-science business line and grew the data science team. Owned the analytics platform as product owner. Started machine-learning work on hydropower and wind-power prediction, an energy bidding platform and predictive maintenance for grids.

Source: Kraftnytt, Apr 2017

2015 to 2017

Founder, CEO and CPO

DharmicData

Built personalisation and customer-data platforms for media and data companies, from idea to production, with clients in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Grew the team as the business scaled.

2013 to 2015

Senior Data Scientist

Schibsted Media Group (FINN.no)

Built personalisation and recommender systems for VG, Aftenposten, FINN.no and Blocket. Contributed to the architecture and strategy of the group's media, data and advertising platforms and helped build the team.

Featured

Press and recognition

AW Magazine

On the cover of The Conscious Issue (issue 8), with an interview on machine learning and ethical AI.

Autumn 2022

NORA

Named an AI role model by NORA, the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium.

2021

Credentials

Education, boards and writing

Education

  • PhD, trust and reputation systems, NTNU

    2008 to 2012

  • MSc Information Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology

    2005 to 2007

  • BSc Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

    2001 to 2005

  • 500+ citations on Google Scholar

Boards and advisory

  • Board member, Digital Etikett

    Jul 2023 to Sep 2025

  • Board member, Alytic, Arendals Fossekompani group

    Feb 2021 to Nov 2023

  • Advisory board, Alva Technologies

    2019 to 2022

  • Startup advisor, Antler

    Sep 2024 to Sep 2025

The book

Author of The AI Awakening (2024), published in Norwegian as KI-oppvåkningen (Gyldendal Akademisk, 2026). The book is written for leaders who want more value from data and AI.

About the book