Olaf is one of the founders of Ikon ehf. Olaf has worked in software development and IT administration since 1985 but his formal education is Electronic Field Engineering and he graduated with a Journeyman Certificate in 1985. After many varied projects in Iceland in software development and the founding of Ikon ehf in 1988, he took on the job of developing internal data systems for Omnis Software Inc. (now Tiger Logic) in Silicon Valley, California USA in 1996. He came back to Iceland 1999 and soon left for Tenerife where he was offered to develop a Time Share sales system for Resort Properties. That project took about 2 years of and on and since then Olaf has focused on building Ikon ehf. In 2005 the company invested in office space at Nybylavegur 6 in Kopavogur, Iceland where the operations currently reside.