Annual Report 2003
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GROUP MANAGEMENT

Thorleif Enger Chairman
Thorleif Enger was elected to the Board on 1 October 2001, and was made Chairman on 6 March 2003. He is CEO of Yara International ASA (formerly Hydro Agri). Thorleif Enger joined Norsk Hydro in 1973 where he has held a number of positions. Thorleif Enger is a member of ABB’s corporate assembly. He has a doctorate in Structural Engineering from the University of Colorado in the US.
    
Thorleif Enger photographed by Per Gunnar Salomonsen.
     
Bjørg Ven Vice-chairman
Bjørg Ven was elected to the Board on 1 October 2001. She has been a partner in the law firm Haavind Vislie in Oslo, since 1980, and is a solicitor with attendance rights at the Supreme Court in Norway. She is Chairman of the Appeal Board of the Oslo Stock Exchange and the Appeal Board for Public Acquisitions, and was appointed substitute judge at the EFTA court in Luxembourg and is Chairman of the Board of NOS ASA.
 
Bjørg Ven photographed by Einar Førde.
     
hanne de mora
Hanne de Mora was elected to the Board on
18 June 2002. She has previous experience from Den norske Creditbank in Luxembourg and Proctor & Gamble in Geneva and Stockholm and has been partner of McKinsey & Company. She started her own consultancy firm in Switzerland in 2002, where she is Chairman of the Board. She has a Master of Business Administration from IESE in Barcelona.
 
Hanne de Mora photographed by Jon Fredrik Baksaas.
     
einar førde
Einar Førde was elected to the Board on 1 October 2001. He is an independent consultant and is Chairman of the Board of Norsk Telegrambyrå, and a board member of Digital Vision AS. He was Managing Director of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) from 1989 to 2001. Einar Førde was a member of parliament for the Labour Party in Norway from 1969 to 1989, Minister for Religion and Education from 1979 to 1981, parliamentary leader of the Labour Party from 1986 to 1989 and deputy leader from 1981 to 1989. (Deceased 26. September 2004.)
 
Einar Førde photographed by Bjørg Ven.
     
Jørgen Lindegaard
Jørgen Lindegaard was elected to the Board on 1 October 2001. He is the CEO of SAS and has a background from the telecommunications industry. Since 1975 he has held managerial positions in Fyns Telefon A/S, København Telefon A/S and TeleDanmark A/S. He was Chairman of the board of Sonofon Holding A/S up to 2004. Lindegaard is a Graduate Engineer with telecommunications and is a member of The Academy for Technical Sciences in Denmark and Norway.
 
Jørgen Lindegaard photographed by Eva Andersson.
     
liselott kilaas
Liselott Kilaas was elected to the Board on 8 May 2003. Kilaas is head of the business area Communication and Security Systems at Zenitel Norway. She has previously held leading positions in the oil industry and PA Consulting Group (partner 1995-1997) and Stento AS. She has a Master of Science from the University of Oslo and an MBA from the International Institute for Management and Development (IMD) in Lausanne.
 
Liselott Kilaas photographed by Harald Stavn.
     

john giverholt
John Giverholt was elected to the Board on 8 May 2003. Giverholt is Finance Director at Ferd AS and has previously held leading positions in Arthur Andersen, Actinor, Norsk Hydro, DnB and Orkla. He has a Bachelor of Science from Manchester, England and is a certified public accountant.

 
John Giverholt photographed by Irma Tystad.
     
harald Stavn
Harald Stavn was elected to the Board on 20 June 2000 by the employees. He began working for Telenor in 1974, where he has held various technical positions. He has been a Board member of Telenor Pension Fund since its establishment in 1995, is a member of the Executive Board of NITO (Norwegian Society of Engineers) and Tekna (formerly N.I.F). Stavn is a group employee representative for NITO at Telenor. Harald Stavn has a technical education from Technical College of Norwegian Telecom, and has a business economist degree from The Norwegian School of Management (BI) in Oslo.
 
Harald Stavn photographed by Liselott Kilaas.
     
per gunnar salomonsen
Per Gunnar Salomonsen was elected to the Board on 1 November 2000 by the employees. He began working for Telenor in 1973, where he has held various positions, most recently as Operations Engineer. From 1995 to 2000 he was a Board Member of Telenor Nett. Salomonsen is a group employee representative for El&IT-forbundet (El & IT Union) at Telenor. Per Gunnar Salomonsen is a qualified engineer.
 
Per Gunnar Salomonsen photographed by Thorleif Enger.
     
irma tystad
Irma Tystad was elected to the Board on 20 June 2000 by the employees. She began working for Telenor in 1962, where she has held various positions. Irma Tystad has been a Board member of Telenor Pension Fund since 1997. She is the group employee representative for Kommunikasjonsforbundet (Union of Communications (Norway)). She is a graduate of the Technical College of Norwegian Telecom and subsequently studied entrepreneurship, business economy and management.
 
Irma Tystad photographed by John Giverholt.
 
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