Gunn Wærsted

 
Chair
Year of election: 2014
Other directorships: Chair Telenor; director Nationwide, director Fidelity International
Education: MBA, BI Norwegian Business School.
Career: Executive vice president in DnB responsible for capital management and life insurance; CEO, Vital Forsikring ASA and member of corporate executive management, 1999-2002; CEO, SpareBank 1 Gruppen AS, and head, SpareBank 1 Alliance, 2002-2007. Global head of wealth management, president of Nordea Bank Norge and member of the corporate executive management of Nordea, 2007-2016.

Brian Bjordal

Deputy chair
Year of election: 2016
Occupation: Self-employed
Other directorships: Deputy chair Helse Fonna health trust, director FKH Stadion A/S 
Education: Civil engineer, BSc, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Career: 1977-1979: Stoltz Røthing (construction); 1979-1984: Taugbøl & Øverland; 1984-2001: Statoil ASA, Senior Engineer pipelines & structures; head of Pipeline & Platform Inspection, asset owner representative Europipe development, head of early-phase studies Europipe II, Åsgard Transport, Ekofisk by-pass, Franpipe, director of Process plant Kårstø, director Troll / Sleipner area (Development and Production Norway); 2001-2015: Gassco AS, President and CEO.

HUGO SANDAL

Director
Year of election: 2017
Occupation: Self-employed.
Education: Civil engineer from NTH (now NTNU) and Degree of Engineer from Stanford University.
Career: Various positions in Saga Petroleum during the period 1976-1987. Consultant in Railo International from 1987-1989. Chief executive in Sabico AS 1989-1991, primary activities aquaculture and biotechnology. Worked for Deminex, later DEA from 1991, chief executive since 1996 until reaching retirement age in 2016. Director Saga Petroleum 1983-1985. Chair OLF, (now NOROG), 1999-2003. Member of NHO’s executive committee 2000-2004.

Trude J H Fjeldstad

Director
Year of election: 2015
Occupation: VP Portfolio Manager New Business in Statkraft AS
Education: Economics degree, University of Oslo, financial analyst and MBA in corporate finance, Norwegian School of Economics.
Career: Previously chief executive in Statkraft Treasury Centre SA; secretary to the board, Statkraft AS; senior gas manager, Statkraft; chief executive, Paine de l’Ain Power SAS and portfolio manager for gas in Norsk Hydro ASA.

RAGNAR SANDVIK 

Director (elected by the employees)
Year of election: 2018
Occupation: Senior adviser; licence follow-up, Petoro AS.
Education: MSc in Business Economics with specialisation in finance from NHH
Career: Broad experience as senior adviser for Strategy, Commercial and Economics in Petoro, as well as consultant in Accenture for change management, process improvement and system implementation.

ANNE-CATHRINE NILSEN

Director (elected by the employees)
Year of election: 2018
Occupation: Team lead commercial affairs, Petoro AS
Education: MSc in Business from the Business School at the University College of Bodø (now Nord University), 2-year specialisation/cand.merc. from NHH and cand.mag. from the University of Tromsø. 
Career: Senior commercial adviser and senior marketing and sales adviser in Petoro AS, Chief Negotiator - Gas Sales and Specialist Commercial Coordinator in TOTAL E&P NORGE AS, senior market analyst in Statoil, researcher for Fiskeriforskning AS and trainee at Credit Suisse.