Hans Aasnæs is CEO of Western Bulk and runs his own farm at Sande in Vestfold. He has previously worked as Senior Vice President of the UMOE Group, worked for the Storebrand Group, including as CEO of Storebrand Kapitalforvaltning, and at Orkla Finans and was a scholarship student at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen (NHH). Aasnæs has served as Chairman and on the board of various companies and organisations, including Formuesforvaltning, Storebrand Eiendom, Norsk Tillitsmann ASA and Verdipapirfondenes Sikringsfond (Norwegian Fund and Asset Management Guarantee Fund). He graduated in agricultural economics at the Agricultural University of Norway in Ås, and has since completed Masters studies at NHH, qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst, and completed the Program for Executive Development at the IMD Business School in Switzerland.
Slungård has broad experience from both politics and private business. Currently she is CEO at Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera. Past experience includes the position of councilman in Stjørdal municipality, being the Mayor of Trondheim municipality as well as executive positions at Sintef and Enova. She has considerable board experience from SIVA, Statsskog, Vital Forsikring, Simens, Meråker utvikling and Adresseavisen. Slundgård has been a member of the corporate assembly at Statoil where she also chaired the election committee. Slungård has studied economics, marketing and communications at Trondheim Business School and BI – Norwegian Business School.
Olaug Svarva led Folketrygdfondet (The Government Pension Fund Norway) from 2006 to 2018 and is the board chairman in DNB and DNB banking ASA. Mrs. Svarva was previously a board member of the Employers' Association Spectrum; Oslo Børs; and the Norwegian Institute of Directors, which she helped establish. Mrs. Svarva has also been a member of the election committee in Telenor, Veidekke, Storebrand and Yara, and has experience from Board of Representatives in Telenor, Statoil and Orkla. From 2001 to 2006 she worked for SpareBank 1 Group, first as managing director of SpareBank 1 then as Investment Director of SpareBank 1 Livsforsikring. In the period 1991 to 2001 she had several positions in Folketrygdfondet, including investment director for the equity department. She has previously worked as a financial analyst in Carnegie and DNB. Mrs. Svarva holds a bachelor's degree from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and MBA from the University of Denver and is an authorized portfolio manager from NHH. NHH (Norwegian School of Economics).
Henrik Lie-Nielsen is a serial entrepreneur and investor based in Bergen. He founded his first technology company in 1995 and has since established several other technology-related companies. He has extensive operational leadership experience (including having served as CEO of Knowit Norge from 2011 to 2016). He has a long and diverse background in developing technology businesses and has been actively involved in sales, stock listings, and acquisitions of such companies. Today, Lie-Nielsen is the Managing Partner of the growth investment company Amp Eleven, which he founded in 2020.
Lie-Nielsen has also served as a board member and chairman in various companies and organizations, including Holberg Fondene, Sportsklubben Brann, Ambita, Arribatec Solutions, and ECIT, in addition to his own enterprises.
Bjørn Erik Reinseth is the CEO of Forskningsparken/Oslotech. He has worked as an investor in roles such as Partner at Ferd Capital/Venture and CEO at Foinco. Reinseth also has extensive operational management experience in the telecom industry, including roles at NetCom and Sense Communications. He began his career at CERN in Geneva. He has board and board leadership experience with companies such as StartupLab, Sharelab, Ship Equip, Norstat, Telecomputing, Napatech, and The Cloud Networks. Bjørn Erik Reinseth holds a degree in engineering from the University of Surrey (UK) and has completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
