Term of office
Elected 7 May 2019, re-elected 27 May 2021 for a period of up to two years.
Committee
Member of the Risk and Audit Committee.
Experience
Jan Otto Eriksen joined Telenor in 2002 as a project manager in Canal Digital AS. From 2002 to 2013 Eriksen managed several development projects for new TV decoders and backend systems, as well as the first projects that established and developed the video-on-demand and streaming services of the company. In 2013 Eriksen was elected main employee representative for the Tekna union in Telenor, a role he has held since. Prior to Telenor, Eriksen worked as software developer and project manager within consultancy as well as in industrial companies from 1981 to 2002. Eriksen has served several periods as employee representative on the board of directors of the Telenor companies Zonavi AS and Canal Digital AS. Eriksen has also served a period in the Telenor Corporate Assembly. Eriksen was deputy member to the employee representatives to the Telenor ASA Board of Directors between 2017 and 2019.
Education
Eriksen holds a Master’s degree in technical cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, and a Bachelor's degree in electronics from Oslo College of Engineering.