About Kellen
Senior Executives
Tor Holtan
Vice President
Tor Holtan, vice president and chief innovation officer, has a long history of leading innovation at major national and international corporations and has in-depth knowledge of the trends and innovations shaping the world.
Most recently, Holtan was chief operating officer of Strategic Research Institute, a conference management company that he helped build from a start-up to a $14 million firm before it was sold in 2006. SRI was a business-to-business conference company targeting corporate level executives with topic concentration in finance, life sciences, marketing and energy. It held more than 120 conferences a year in key cities throughout the US, Europe and Asia.
Prior to SRI, Holtan served as president, Taiwan First Investment and Trust Company, a unit of Citibank, and as a chief of staff of the Europe, Middle East and Africa Division Office of Citibank’s Consumer Service Group. He began his career as a product manager at Colgate Palmolive.
Holtan holds a Master of International Management (MIM) degree from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird), and an undergraduate degree in Marketing from Washington State University. He has served on numerous boards and committees, including the House of Delegates of the United States Olympic Committee. Holtan was also the manager of both the 1984 Olympic and 1986 Goodwill Games US Team Handball teams. He is fluent in Norwegian.
Mr. Holtan will oversee the implementation of Best Practices throughout the company, assess and execute operations improvements and develop new products and services in the areas of marketing, distance learning and conferences. He will report to Chairman Peter Rush