Per Meland (born Per Gunnar Meland, March 12, 1972) is a Norwegian businessman and media entrepreneur. Meland has co-founded several companies within media, publishing and technology. He has also directed documentaries, and owns an award-winning restaurant.
In 1999 he founded Face2Face an advertising and communications agency, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The agency has around 200 employees with offices in Norway and Stockholm. [1] [2] Face2Face works with field marketing and creative campaigns. [3] The company works with several leading international brands such as Santander Consumer Bank (Norway), [3] American Express, [4] SAS, [1] Shell, [5] Puma, [5] BlackBerry [5] and Telenor [3] in the Nordic region. The company specializes in strategic communications between businesses and their end users, face to face. Usually through "under the radar"-channels like field marketing, word-of-mouth marketing and social media. [3] [1]
In 2007 Meland sold Face2Face to the venture capital company Idékapital AS, where he subsequently joined as one of four equal partners.
Following Meland's entry, Idékapital bought shares in:
In 2012 Meland left Idekapital, bought back Face2Face for an undisclosed amount and rejoined the management of the company.
As of March 2013 Meland holds directorships on several boards:
In addition Meland owns a stake in Dype Skoger AS [10] which makes documentaries and publishes the Norwegian soccer magazine Josimar.
