Board of Directors
Thorleif Enger was elected to the board on October 1, 2001 and was made Chairman on March 6, 2003. He is chief executive officer of Yara International ASA. He began working for Norsk Hydro in 1973 and has held a number of positions in the company. Mr. Enger is a member of ABB’s corporate assembly and a member of Ruhrgas Supervisory Board. He has a doctorate in structural engineering from the University of Colorado.
Bjørg Ven was elected to the board on October 1, 2001. She is a solicitor with attendance rights at the Supreme Court in Norway, and since 1980 has been a partner in the law firm, Haavind Vislie, in Oslo. She is chairman of the appeal board of the Oslo Stock Exchange and the appeal board for Public Acquisitions. Ms. Ven is substitute judge at the EFTA court in Luxembourg.
Hanne de Mora was elected to the board on June 18, 2002. Her work experience includes Den norske Creditbank in Luxembourg and Procter & Gamble in Geneva and Stockholm. She has been a partner with McKinsey & Company since 1996. Since June 2002, she has run her own management resource firm in Switzerland. She has an MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona.
John Giverholt was elected to the board on May 8, 2003. He is presently chief financial officer of Ferd AS and has previously held leading positions in Arthur Andersen, Actinor, Norsk Hydro, DnB and Orkla. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Manchester, England and is a state authorized public accountant in Norway.
Liselott Kilaas was elected to the board on May 8, 2003. She is presently managing director of Aleris Norway AS. She has previously held leading positions in Zenitel ASA, the oil industry, PA Consulting Group and Stento AS and is currently a board member of Norges Bank. She has a M.Sc. from the University of Oslo and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne.
Jørgen Lindegaardwas elected to the board on October 1, 2001. Mr. Lindegaard is presently CEO if ISS A/S after having been CEO of the SAS Group for 5 years. Lindegaard’s background is in the telecommunications industry, and since 1975 he has held managerial positions at Fyns Telefon A/S, København Telefon A/S and TeleDanmark A/S. He was chairman of the board of Sonofon Holding A/S until 2004. Mr. Lindegaard is a telecommunications engineer and a member of The Academy for Technical Sciences in Denmark and Norway.
Paul Bergqvist was elected to the board on April 7, 2005. Until April 2006 he Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO of Carlsberg A/S. Since 1971, he has held managerial positions in a number of industrial companies, including Husqvarna and Pripps/Ringnes/Carlsberg. Mr. Bergqvist has also served as a director for a number of international companies. He has a B.Sc in Engineering and has studied Economics at the MBA-level.
Harald Stavn was elected to the board on June 20, 2000 as an employee representative. Mr. Stavn joined Telenor in 1974 and has held various engineering positions. He is a board member of Telenor Pensjonskasse (Pension Fund), and employee representative from NITO in Telenor. Mr. Stavn has a technical education from the Technical College of Norwegian Telecom and was also educated as a business economist at Handelshøyskolen BI (the Norwegian School of Management) in Oslo.
Per Gunnar Salomonsen was elected to the board on November 1, 2000 as an employee representative. Mr. Salomonsen began working for Telenor in 1973. He has held various positions in Telenor, most recently as operations engineer. From 1995 to 2000, he was a board member of Telenor Nett. Mr. Salomonsen is a group employee representative for the Norwegian trade union EL & IT Forbundet. He is an engineer.
Irma Tystad was elected to the board of directors on June 20, 2000 as an employee representative. Ms. Tystad began working for Telenor in 1962 and has served as a board member of Telenor Plus since 1995 and of Telenor Pensjonskasse (Pension Fund) since 1997. She is the group employee representative for Kommunikasjonsforbundet (Union of Communications). Ms. Tystad is a graduate of the Technical College of Norwegian Telecom and has subsequently studied business and management.
