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Chair of the Board since 2022
Nils Kristian Nakstad is Managing Director of Enova, a role he has held since 2008. He has an MsC in Engineering from NTH and has worked as researched and Head of Section at SINTEF, in addition to having held roles in Norsk Hydro, Trondhjem Preserving and Revolt Technology.
Elected in 2020, board member. Elected as Vice Chair in 2022
Wenche Teigland is a civil engineer and has very good knowledge of the power industry. She has been a member of the BKK Group Management for 13 years.
Wenche has good knowledge of grid operations and the Nordic and European power markets, and in 2012 she was a member of the government-appointed energy committee. Teigland is also a board member of the Vy Group.
Elected in 2020, board member
Christian Reusch is a lawyer from the University of Oslo. He is a lawyer and partner in Simonsen Vogt Wiig and has right to attend in the Supreme Court. In addition, Reusch has long experience from the Government Attorney, and he has been the Deputy Director at the Prime Minister's Office. Reusch was also a member of the Lysne II committee, which among other things studied digital border defence.
Employee-elected Board member since 2004, employee since 1981.
Member of the project committee.
Experience: Team coordinator in Statnett’s division for Systems Operations, Asset Management and Markets, Head of the nationwide Electrician and IT Workers Union, member of the Working Environment Committee and Chief Safety Representative at Statnett.
Experience: Senior analyst/product owner in Technology and Development, former risk manager. Prior to Statnett, Senior Consultant at Lloyd's Register/Scandpower and Researcher at SINTEF. Board experience from Tekna (The Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals).
Employee-elected Board member since 2024. Employed in Statnett since 2014.
Member of AMU i Statnett.
Work Experience: Senior Construction Manager. Leader at NITO Statnett (Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists in the Power and IT Sector). Prior to Statnett, management roles in infrastructure projects since 1994.
Employed in 2007 and a member of Group management since 2014.
Previous experience: Several management positions within development projects, construction client organisations, operational activities and public administration. Responsible for planning, engineering and development of the transmission grid in Norway since 2014. Since 2021, also responsible for operation and management of the transmission grid as well as emergency preparedness.
Education/qualifications: Master of Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), diploma in business administration and Executive education in board governance at the Norwegian Business School (BI).
Directorships: Chair of NordLink Norge AS and board member of Oslobygg KF.
Employed in 2009 and part of the group management since 2024
Work experience: Background from administration and the consulting industry, project management and management positions within development projects, building owner organizations and operational operations. From 2021 director of operational preparedness.
Education: Master's degree in Resource Economics and Spatial Planning from UMB.
Further education pedagogy and psychology NTNU, Risk & Project Management from SBS.
Employed in 1995 and a member of Group management since 2004.
Previous positions: Several executive positions at BKK and several directorships at Statnett.
Education/qualifications: Master of Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (THD) in Germany.
Directorships: Chair of NordLink Norge AS.
Employed in 2009 and a member of group management since 2019.
Education and qualifications: Master of Science in Physics and Mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and postgraduate studies in international management from the FGV Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Previous positions: Manager at Accenture, several management roles and directorships at Statnett
Directorships: Chariman; Fifty As, Board member; Helse Vest IKT and Digital Norway
Employed first time in 1994 and hired again in 2019. Løvås has been a member of Group management from 2007-2014 and from 2019.
Education and qualifications: Master of Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a doctorate in mathematical statistics from the UiO, Oslo Norway.
Previous positions: Differetnt executive positions at Statnett. Between 2014-2016 he was Deputy Director General at the Norwegian National Rail Administration.
Directorships: Chairman in Elhub AS and boardmember in Globeleq Ltd.
Employed in 2007 and a member of Group management since 2007.
Education/qualifications: Master’s in Computer Science from UiO, Oslo Norway and postgraduate studies in management from Henley Business School in the UK.
Previous positions: Director at Telenor, Schibsted Nett and Scandinavia Online AB, Head of Technology at NRK.
Employed in 2024 and a member of Group Management since 2024.
Education:
Master of Science, Department of Computer Technology and Informatics, NTNU
Finance for Executives, Harvard Business School
Strategy Executive Programme, INSEAD
Work experience: Has extensive management experience from various leadership roles in the Telenor group, previously held positions as the CEO and CTO in Telenor Serbia & Telenor Montenegro. The last management role was Nordic CTO in Telenor.
Directorships: Board member of Sykehuspartner.
Employed in June 2022 as CFO, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.
Education/qualifications: Four year programme in Economics and Business administration (Siviløkonom) from Norwegian School of Economics/NHH
Previous positions: consultant at Accenture, several management positions within finance, risk, analysis and strategy in Statkraft and DNB
Directorships: Board member in Shearwater GeoServices
Eemployed in May 2022 as Executive Vice President for People and Sustainability.
Education/qualifications: Cand. Sociol with specialization in organizational sociology, PhD in strategy and organization from BI Norwegian Business School
Work experience: Has 25 years of experience from HR and Organizational Development as HR director, consultant and researcher, most recently as HR director in Telenor Norway.