Martin Nyhus is a results-driven sales leader with 16 years of cross-industry experience, currently heading Norway and Iceland sales for PPG. He combines hands-on commercial instincts with senior expertise in B2B/B2C sales, channel and dealer management, project finance and marketing, having held leadership roles from CFO to regional director and CEO. Comfortable with both operational details and board-level negotiations, he is adept at implementing systems (SAP, Navision, CRM) to scale sales and improve margins. Martin also contributes technically as a backend developer on open-source Java tooling, having improved localization and session handling in the Freenet Reference Daemon—an indication of practical coding chops beyond his commercial career. Based in Oslo, he brings a pragmatic, outdoorsy leadership style informed by interests in skiing, cycling and mountain hiking.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Økonomi, adm. og ledelse, Bachelor, Økonomi, adm. og ledelse at BI Norwegian Business School
Videregående almennefag, Videregående almennefag at Nordstrand videregående skole
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions focused on enhancing the Freenet Reference Daemon, a Java-based project. They implemented features for managing localized content within the menu system. This involved modifying core classes, such as `PageMaker.java` and `SimpleToadletServer.java`, to support per-item localization and integrating a session management system for plugins using cookie paths. Further commits included updating Javadoc and addressing code inefficiencies.
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