Board of Directors
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Tore Engebretsen (1951) - Shareholder elected Chairman of the Board Tore Engebretsen has a cand. real. degree from the University of Oslo, with a major in theoretical physics (1978). He was one of the founders of VMETRO ASA, and served as its CEO from the company’s founding in 1986 until 2003 and its Chairman from 2003 until 2008. Engebretsen has been Chairman of Nordic Semiconductor since 2001. He has also been a board member in the companies Ferd Venture ASA, Profdoc ASA and Nera ASA. Engebretsen is a partner in the investment company Nunatak AS, and is a Chairman of the Board in the associated portfolio companies Elliptic Labs AS and Squarehead Technologies AS, Media Network Services AS and Transpacket AS. Holdings in the company: 7 687 500 shares. |
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Anne-Cecilie Fagerlie (1958) - Shareholder elected Vice-Chairman of the Board Anne-Cecilie Fagerlie has an engineering degree from NTH (now NTNU). Afterward, she began working at Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where she became partner in 1993. In 2002, Fagerlie joined Aker Kværner as Senior Vice President of Group IT. In June 2006, she was appointed General Manager of Nordics in Avanade, an international consultancy owned by Accenture and Microsoft. |
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Terje Rogne (1960) - Shareholder elected Terje Rogne is currently Chairman of Nokas AS, and is also a Board member of Apptix ASA, Dolphin Group ASA, and Unified Messaging Systems AS. From 1994 until 2004, Rogne was Chief Financial Officer of Tandberg ASA. Afterward, he then served as the Head of Operations and Investor Relations for Tandberg until 2008. Before his career in Tandberg, Rogne was Finance Director in Kværner AS. He has an MBA from the University of San Diego and a Bachelor of Business degree from the Oslo School of Business Administration. Holdings in the company: 1 250 000 shares. |
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Karsten Rönner (1960) - Shareholder elected Dr. Karsten Rönner has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a MSc. in Physics from University of Hannover, Germany. He has 17 years experience from the semiconductor and electronics industries at Siemens, Infineon and Systemonic. During this time he worked for several years in Japan and in Silicon Valley. In addition, Dr. Rönner has more than seven years of experience in corporate finance as managing director and co-owner of Sardis Capital. He is a German citizen, and is managing partner of the High Tech Startbahn venture fund in Dresden, Germany. Holdings in the company: 30 000 shares. |
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Arnhild Schia (1963) - Shareholder elected Arnhild Schia has a Master in Computer Science degree from Strathclyde University and a Business degree from BI. She has 20 years experience from the IT, Software and Telecommunication industries and has since 2011 been the CCO of T-VIPS AS (Video over IP solutions). Schia has previously served as Senior Vice President for Comptel Corporation, as CEO for EDB Telecom, as CEO for Incatel AS, as Executive Vice President of Telesciences Inc. and as IT director for Telenor. |
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Markus Bakka Hjertø (1977) - Employee representative Markus Bakka Hjertø has a Master of Science degree in Electrical engineering from NTNU and the University of Adelaide. He has been employed in Nordic Semiconductor since 2005, first within quality assurance and now as a R&D Engineer in Oslo. |
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Jon Helge Nistad (1981) - Employee representative Jon Helge Nistad has a Master degree in Electrical Engineering (analog and mixed signal design) from NTNU. Since 2006, he has been employed in Nordic Semiconductor, where he has worked with embedded software and hardware development. Nistad is the Chief Employee representative in Nordic Semiconductor. |