Management and Board of Directors

Mr Hagen has long experience in the retail, industrial and financial investment sectors and management.  

He established his first own business in 1976 as co-founder and grocer of RIMI Norge AS and Hakon Gruppen AS. From 1999 to 2004, Hagen was co-founder and grocer of ICA AB.

Mr. Hagen and his children jointly own several family companies, including Canica AS. Mr Hagen also sits on the boards of the family’s charitable foundations.

Mr Hagen chairs the Nomination Committee of Anora Group PLC, and is chairman and board member in various companies where the S.E. Hagen family holds direct or indirect ownership interests.

Education

Degree from the Merchant Institute/Norwegian College of Retailing

Shareholding

250,386,411 

Ms Kilaas has many years’ experience from the health and care and medtech sectors, broad international experience in top executive positions, strategy, change management, general management, B2B, B2C and ESG, and experience from listed, private and P/E-owned companies. 

Ms Kilaas was CEO of Aleris Group from 2013 to 2017, previously serving as Managing Director of Aleris Norway and later Aleris Norway and Denmark.  

She is currently CEO of Evidia Group, board and Audit Committee member of Folketrygdfondet and Peab AB, and a board member of Avonova AB and Recover Nordic. In addition, she chairs Implantica and is on the Supervisory Board of IMD. Since 2010, Ms Kilaas has been part of EQT’s industrial adviser network, being involved in several transactions and having roles in several of its portfolio companies

Education  

M.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics, University of Oslo; Master of Business Administration, IMD Lausanne 

Shareholding  

21,400 

Mr Agnefjäll has extensive international experience in retail, consumer goods, strategy, business development and general management.  

He was President and CEO of the IKEA Group (Ingka Holding B.V.) from 2013 to 2017, previously serving as Managing Director and Country Manager at IKEA Retail Sweden. He began his career as an IKEA trainee in 1995 and has since held multiple executive positions within the IKEA group. 

He is currently Chair of the Supervisory Board of Ahold Delhaize N.V. and a member of its Governance and Nomination Committee, and the Remuneration Committee. Mr Agnefjäll is also a member of the Council on Sustainable Transformation, a group of senior leaders from business, government, and academia focused on accelerating private sector sustainability efforts. 

Education 

M.Sc. in Business Administration, Linköping University 

Shareholding 

20,000 

Ms Fagerberg has broad experience from investment/ private equity and transactions (M&A).

She has worked at Goldman Sachs and IK Investment Partners (formerly Industri Kapital). In 2007 she founded her own private equity fund, Fagerberg & Dellby.

Ms Fagerberg is on the board of the investment company Idun Industrier AB.

Education 

M.Sc. in Economics and Business, Stockholm School of Economics.

Shareholding 

20,000 

Mr Ryssdal has extensive experience of general management, growth companies and international expansion.  

Until August 2022, he was CEO of Adevinta, prior to which he was CEO of Schibsted from 2009 to 2018. Mr Ryssdal began his career at Schibsted in 1991 and served as CEO of Aftonbladet (1999–2005) and VG (2005–2008) before taking up the role of CEO at Schibsted.  

Mr Ryssdal chairs the boards of Spir Group ASA, Simployer Group AS and Ness, Risan & Partners AS.

Education

Master of Business Administration, Insead; M.Sc. from BI Norwegian Business School

Shareholding

28,500 

Ms Hagen Kjos has broad experience and expertise in international relations and active ownership.  

She is an active owner and board member at Canica Holding AG in Switzerland, where she earlier held the position as Executive Chair of the Board. She has previously worked as a Project Manager in marketing and purchasing at JerniaGruppen.  

Education 

Bachelor of Business Administration, Parsons School of Design, New York 

Shareholding 

250,386,411

Mr Rem has extensive financial expertise, including experience in capital markets and transactions. He has broad management experience from roles as CEO and CFO of different investment and holding companies in Norway.  

Mr Rem is CEO of Kistefos AS. From 2009 until 2015 he was Deputy CEO at Arctic Securities, and then CEO at Arctic Partners; from 1995 until 2009 he held a variety of CFO and CEO roles in the Aker system.  

Mr Rem began his career as a public accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr Rem chairs the boards of Advanzia Bank S.A, Western Bulk Chartering AS and Viking Supply Ships AB (which are all majority-owned by Kistefos AS). Mr Rem is a member of the board of Oslo Airport City AS. 

Education 

M.Sc Business Administration and Finance from BI Norwegian Business School, Master’s degree in Accounting and Auditing from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) 

Shareholding 

10,000 

Mr Utstrand has worked for Orkla Snacks, Nidar, since 1993, and has served as chief employee representative since 2010. Mr Utstrand is Chair of the Board for LO Union Members at Orkla, Orkla’s Committee of Union Representatives and the European Works Council.  

Mr Utstrand has been a national NNN union representative at Orkla Snacks Norge AS since 1999. He has held various board positions within the group since 2004.  

Mr Utstrand has vocational training with trade certificates in the automative trade and as a technical operator in the food industry and has undertaken management studies at Oslo University College and technical school studies in HSE.

Shareholding

11,174 

Mr Vangen has been employed at Orkla Foods for 39 years. He has been a local union representative since around 1990. He is currently employed at Orkla Foods Norge and is NNN union representative by Orkla Foods Norge, Stranda branch.  

Mr Vangen is also a member of the Committee of Representatives at Orkla Foods Norge, the Liaison Committee’s Working Committee at Orkla Foods, the Board for LO Union Members at Orkla, Orkla’s Committee of Union Representatives, the Working Committee of the Committee of Representatives and the European Works Council.

Shareholding 

11,828 

Ms Nielsen has worked for Orkla Foods since 1996. She is chief union representative for External Sales and Department Head for Negotia at Orkla Foods Norge. She chairs the Committee of Representatives for the salaried employees at Orkla.  

Ms Nielsen is also a member of Orkla Foods' Liaison Committee, Orkla’s Committee of Union Representatives and its working committee, and the European Works Council. Ms Nielsen is the employee representative on the Board of Orkla Foods Norge AS. 

Shareholding 

11,820