Management and Board of Directors

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

He established his first own business in 1976 and he and his children jointly own several family companies, including Canica AS. He is active in several of the family companies: Chair of the Board of Canica Invest AS, Tvist 1 Invest AS, Tvist 1 AS, Tvist 3 AS, Tvist 5 AS, Tvist 8 AS, Nærutvikling AS and Stein Erik Hagen AS, board member of Canica AS and Canica Eiendom AS and deputy board member of Jernia AS. In addition, Hagen sits on the boards of the family’s charitable foundations. 

Hagen is Chair of Anora Group PLC’s Nomination Committee.

Education

Degree from the Retail Institute/the Norwegian School of Trade and Retail Management

Shareholding

250 386 411 

Liselott 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.

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

Kilaas is currently CEO of Evidia Group. She is a member of the Board of Directors and of the Audit Committee of Peab AB, and a board member of Avonova AB and Varroc Engineering Ltd. She also chairs the Board of Directors of Implantica and is a member of the Supervisory Board of IMD. Since 2010, Kilaas has been a part of EQT’s industrial adviser network and been involved in multiple transactions and had different roles in several of EQT’s portfolio companies.

Education  

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

Shareholding  

23 900 

Bengt A. 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.

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. Rem began his career as a public accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Rem chairs the boards of Advanzia Bank S.A, Western Bulk Chartering AS, Holberg Fonds forvaltning AS, and Viking Supply Ships AB (which are all majority-owned by Kistefos AS). Rem is a deputy board member 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 

15 000

Christina 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.

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 

Rolv Erik 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. 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.  

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 

Christer Kjos is CEO of Canica Holding AG/Canica International AG. He has an international background in finance and extensive experience in active ownership and portfolio management.

He has previously held roles within the investment sector in Switzerland, including positions at Bank of America, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets AG, Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, and BI Capital AG. Kjos is a board member and member of the Audit Committee of Anora, and serves as Chair of the Nomination Committee of Nordic Corporate Bank AS. 

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Finance (B.S), Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, US

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

Shareholding

11 174 

Roger Vangen has been employed by Orkla Foods since 1985 and has been a local union representative since 1989. He is currently employed by Orkla Foods Norge and is NNN union representative for Orkla Foods Norge, Stranda branch.

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 

Ingrid Sofie 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.

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. Nielsen is the employee representative on the Board of Orkla Foods Norge AS.

Shareholding 

1 820