Christian Frost Røine

Christian Frost Røine is one of the co-founders of FELL, a tech company within the field of wireless systems. In 2014 FELL launched the first ever successful man-overboard solution, MOB+, based on wireless technology for the marine leisure boating market. Today FELL is distributed in Europe, Americas and Australia. In 2017 FELL became an OEM vendor to Mercury Marine, a Brunswick Corporation, one of the largest corporations within the international marine industry. This partnership will enhance boating technologies and give users a more integrated experience with safety and security systems in their boats. Before starting FELL, he served in the Norwegian Coast Guard with responsibilities within SAR activities, man over board rescue and marine firefighting. The service in the coast guard gave experience with the dangers at sea and the importance of having correct safety gear. Many of the experiences has been embedded into the solutions around the man overboard system MOB+. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance from BI International Business school in Oslo and was the leader of the schools finance investment fund for 1,5 years. FELL as a company was started while still studying finance, through the 2013 national entrepreneurial competition “UE” in Norway. He started a student business together with his cousin Ove Henrik Røine and Fredrik Eriksen. Ove Henrik was also a student at BI, while Fredrik studied cybernetics at OsloMet. Together, they had the broad expertise required to write a business plan which proved that they could get things done, leading to the team winning the national competition. Today FELL is an exciting and varied job with a lot of travel. The days are filled with contact with foreign clients, suppliers and partners. A typical day at the office is full of emails and administrative work, product development and Skype meetings with people in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. After work he enjoys being active and is an avid trainer at CrossFit, during weekends he enjoy hiking or doing cross country skiing in the beautiful Norwegian mountains.