Mr. Olson started his professional career at Salamander Shoes in Germany in the 90’s. He then moved to the USA where he worked his way up in banking for more than a decade, with a final stint as CIO of a bank in Dallas, Texas.

In 2004 Oliver W. Olson switched to academia and founded Maastricht School of Management Romania and was that school’s first Dean and Academic Director.

Oliver currently teaches Marketing and Strategy to MBA students in almost a dozen countries, consults and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.