Soren Visti Kristensen

Career History

Group.one is a European SaaS group delivering web hosting, domain, cloud, email, marketing and website tools, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. The company is expanding rapidly through acquisitions and innovation, most recently adding SocialPilot (social media management), GTmetrix (website-performance monitoring) and MiniCRM (customer-relationship management), and launching Aida AI to embed artificial intelligence across its products.

Søren Visti Kristensen was appointed Chief Technology Officer in April 2023, with responsibility for the group-wide technology stack and engineering leadership across its brands. He has since driven the integration of these new capabilities into a more unified platform for SMB customers and strengthened Group.one’s engineering practices to scale securely and efficiently.

He had previously served in senior roles at One.com, including Director of Engineering and VP of Group Engineering, and before that held senior technical leadership roles in telecom and ISP sectors globally. He holds an accredited MBA and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.

About Group.one

Formed through the merger of one.com and Dogado and backed by private equity firms Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Cinven, Group.one serves more than 2 million customers across Europe, focusing on helping small and medium-sized businesses build and grow their online presence. Its portfolio spans domains, web hosting, email, website tools and marketing services, brought to market through brands such as One.com, Zoner, WP Rocket, Rank Math, Hostnet.nl and Herold.at.

Recent acquisitions have expanded its offering into website performance monitoring and CRM through GTmetrix and MiniCRM, strengthening the suite available to freelancers, agencies and SMBs across regions including the Nordics, DACH, Benelux and Central and Eastern Europe.

Career History

About Group.one

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