Ola Strøm
Ola Strøm, Chairman of BE Bio Energy Group AG, of Nordic Infrastructure AG, of Blue Diamond Asset Management AG and of Ocean Blue Holding AG, Vice Chairman of Solör Bioenergi Holding AB, co-founder of all companies.
Mr Strøm’s passion for filantrophy and giving back to society or «paying it forward», led him to establish and build up the charity Right to Play in Switzerland in 2003 together with a group of friends. RTP is a global athlete driven charity with focus on children. It was founded in 1994 by Norwegian 4 time Olympic Champion Johann Olav Koss, a good friend of Mr Strøm. RTP’s global headquarters are in Toronto, Canada. RTP Switzerland is primarily a fund raising organisation,, raising approx 4-5 million CHF yearly in Switzerland. Present board members of RTP Switzerland include Bernhard Russi, Barbara Keller (Diethelm Keller Siebner Hegner families), Martin Bidermann (Rahn+Bodmer), Eric Balet (Televerbier) and Christoph Tonini (TAMedia). Former board members include Alt-Bundesrat Adolf Ogi and Philippe Blatter (Ex CEO Infront).
Mr. Strøm’s passion for music since childhood eventually brought him to Montreux Jazz Festival, where he met Claude Nobs in 2009, and remained in contact with him until his death. In 2009 he also met Ray Parker jr. His friendship with Ray, his affection for live and recorded music and musicians as well as his passion for films and film making led him to create Power Chord Films in Los Angeles in 2019 together with Ray and film director Fran Strine. PCF is a film production company focusing on music documentaries, and has already produced its first film: Who You Gonna Call? about the astonishing life and career of Ray Parker jr from barely surviving the racially charged ghetto and streets of Detroit in the 1960’s, via Motown and LA session recordings and live musician and song-writer - incl The Temptations, Gladys Night, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, to his own career as an artist, culminating in his world famous theme song to the film Ghostbusters in 1984. The song went to no 1 or no 2 in 52 countries around the world. It was nominated for Oscar as Best Song in 1985 as well as winning BAFTA for Best Song same year. Power Chord Films documentary film about Ray Parker jr had world premiere at Zürich Film Festival in September 2020, and it is distributed by Sony Pictures world-wide. Power Chord Films is now in the production phase of ist second music documentary. Mr Strøm is Executive Producer and Producer of both films.