GROUP MANAGEMENT

Telenor’s Group Management consists of eight members: Group CEO, CFO, CTO and the heads of the business and market areas.

JON FREDRIK BAKSAAS
has been President and CEO of Telenor since 21 June 2002. He joined Telenor in 1989 and was made Deputy CEO in 1997. Baksaas has held positions as Finance Director, Executive Vice President and CEO of TBK AS. Before joining Telenor, Baksaas held finance-related positions in Aker AS, Stolt-Nielsen Seaway and Det norske Veritas. He is a board member of Svenska Handelsbanken AB. Baksaas holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen and has additional qualifications from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Arve Johansen
has been Senior Executive Vice President since 1999 and CEO of Telenor Mobile since 2000. He joined Telenor in 1989 and has held several positions, including CEO of Telenor International AS. Before joining Telenor, he was Executive Vice President of EB Telecom, Research Engineer at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and has also worked at ELAB. Johansen graduated as an electronics engineer (telecommunications) from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim and has participated in the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School, Harvard.

Torstein Moland
joined Telenor as Executive Vice President with responsibility for finance (CFO) in 1997. He has been Senior Executive Vice President of Telenor since 2000. Prior to taking up this post, he was Governor of Norges Bank and President of Norske Skog. He also served at the Norwegian Ministry of Finance where he developed economic policies. He was later appointed State Secretary to the Prime Minister. Moland is a graduate economist with additional qualifications from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Berit Svendsen
has been Executive Vice President for Technology (CTO) since 2000. She joined Telenor in 1988 and has held a number of different positions, most recently as Project Director for FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) and as CEO of data services before she was appointed Executive Vice President and CTO in 2000. Svendsen has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a Master of Technology Management from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jan Edvard Thygesen
has served as Executive Vice President and CEO of Telenor Networks Services AS since 1998. Since 6 January 2004 he has been Executive Vice President and CEO of Nordic Mobile. He joined Telenor in 1979 and has held several positions including Executive Vice President of Telenor Mobil, CEO of Telenor Invest AS, Executive Vice President of Telenor Bedrift AS and CEO of Telenor Nett AS. He has also previously been CEO of Esat Digifone. Thygesen graduated in electronics and telecommunications at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim.

Åsmund Løset
became Executive Vice President and CEO of Telenor Networks on 6 January 2004. He joined Telenor in 1996 as Executive Vice President of Telenor Nett, having previously held the position of Director of Shared Services with Uni Storebrand, with responsibility for IT, economy and legal services. At Telenor, Åsmund Løset’s responsibilities have included Telenor’s Stock Exchange introduction, Telenor’s efficiency programme Delta4, and in 2003 he was Deputy CEO of Telenor Networks. Løset holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen.

Morten Karlsen Sørby
has been Executive Vice President and CEO of Telenor Norge since 1 January 2003. He joined Telenor in 1993 and has held a number of different positions in the group, including Executive Vice President of Telenor Mobile and Finance Director and CEO of Telenor International. He has previously worked at Arthur Andersen & Co in Oslo, primarily in IT, telecommunications and media. Sørby holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and is a state authorised public accountant (Norway). He also has qualifications from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Stig Eide Sivertsen
is Executive Vice President and CEO of Telenor Broadcast. He joined Telenor in 1997 as Finance Director for Telenor Link AS. He has previously held positions as CEO of Nettavisen and Finance Director at Petroleum Geo-Services ASA and Schibsted ASA. Stig Eide Sivertsen studied law at the University of Bergen and has an MBA from Durham University.

From left: Morten Karlsen Sørby, Jan Edvard Thygesen, Åsmund Løset, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Torstein Moland, Berit Svendsen, Stig Eide Sivertsen, Arve Johansen.

The photos of the Group Management were taken with a mobile camera.