Entrepreneurship, speaking, business, travel, and the long road in between
Håvar Bauck
Building across Africa through business, speaking, writing, and ideas worth pursuing
I am a Norwegian entrepreneur, advisor, and speaker based in Nairobi, with more than two decades of experience across East Africa and the wider continent, with particularly strong depth in travel, hospitality, and travel technology.
What I do
I work with companies, founders, and partners across Africa on growth, market entry, partnerships, and execution.
My recent work has been particularly deep in travel, hospitality, and travel technology, but I also advise across sectors where strategy meets real-world execution.
Alongside this, I speak at conferences and industry events, and write regularly about business, travel, and the broader African landscape.
Consulting / Advisory
Strategic advice for growth, market entry, and business building in East Africa
Market Entry / Expansion
Supporting companies entering East Africa with local insight, positioning, and execution strategy.
Growth and partnerships
Building and structuring partnerships that drive distribution, revenue, and long-term value.
Founder & strategic advisory
Working with founders and leadership teams on direction, decisions, and scaling in complex markets.
Speaking
I speak on entrepreneurship, tourism, travel technology, digital growth, partnerships, and building businesses across Africa.
Recent appearances include AfricaCom, Africa TravelTech Summit, Africa MICE Summit, Africa Youth In Tourism Summit and Innovation Challenge, Africa Tourism Leadership Forum, and multiple industry and innovation platforms across the continent.
Selected moments
Selected speaking and industry moments
Håvar Bauck speaking at the Africa Youth In Tourism Innovation Summit and Challenge (AYTIS) 2024
Speaking at Africa Traveltech Summit
From the blog
Business, travel, and the spaces in between.
bauck.com – since 1998
I started building bauck.com in plain HTML with Windows Notepad, inspired by the first personal sites that began appearing at the time.
In the days when the web was new and felt open, curious, and slightly improvised in the best possible way.
bauck.com has been online ever since, making it one of the oldest continuously running personal blogs on the internet.
Beyond Business
Travel has always been part of my story.
It has shaped how I move through the world, how I notice things, and how I make sense of places, people, and change. I document landscapes, cities, encounters, detours, and the unexpected moments that tend to matter more than planned.
Some of it is about movement. Some of it is about curiosity. Over time, that has grown into a substantial archive of images, observations, and travel writing built from the road.
