Board of Directors

Mrs. Hollingsæter was elected Vice Chairman of the Bank in April 2015 and has served on the board since March 2014. Mrs. Hollingsæter currently works as Special Advisor at Innovation Norway and as Vice Chairperson of Teknika AS. She has an extensive banking background on an executive level from positions, such as Director at Innovation Norway, Regional General Manager at Sparebanken Møre and Bank Manager at Romsdals Fellesbank. She also has board experience from companies including  Eksportfinans, Kommunekreditt and Kommunalbanken. She holds an MSc. in Business and Economics and an AFA (CEFA equiv.) from the Norwegian School of Economics.

Mrs. Haukvik has been Member of the Board of Directors since 2013 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors from December 2013 until August 2019. Mrs. Haukvik currently works as CFO / COO in Komplett Group. She has extensive board experience from several blue chip companies including Eksportfinans, Kvaerner, BI Norwegian Business School, Sparebanken 1 BV and Borgestad. She holds a Master of Finance (liz.rer.pol.) from Université de Fribourg, Switzerland and a Master of Management from BI Norwegian Business School.

Board member since March 2018. Mr. Stangeland has broad and relevant financial market experience as the long-standing CFO of the investment company Canica AS. In addition, Stangeland has been a member of the Bank's Nomination Committee and, both through this appointment and through the position as the CFO of the bank's largest shareholder, knows the bank well. He holds an MSc in Business Administration and Economics from BI Norwegian Business School.

Employee elected board member since March 2018. Mrs. Aasen has since June 2015 works as Director of CRM in the Bank. Today she holds the position as Head of marketing. She has previously worked in Gjensidige both as CRM Manager and Analyst Manager. Before that she worked in DnB as Senior Market Analyst.  Mrs. Aasen holds a  MSc. in Economics from the University of Oslo and a MSc. in Management from BI Norwegian Business School.

Member of the board of Directors since August 2019. Mr. Hjorthen has extensive experience from the financial industry as a credit analyst at DNB, investment analyst at Kistefoss AS, seven years as portfolio manager at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) stationed in Norway and Singapore and as an analyst in Trient Asset Management. Today he works as manager of his family's investment company, Sniptind Invest AS. He holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics.

Employee elected board member since March 2018. Mr. Petterøe has worked as Head of IT Architecture and Software Architect in the Bank since April 2015. He has a background from, and currently holds the rank of Lieutenant, in the Royal Norwegain Air Force. Over the last 19 years he has worked within IT development, of which the last 15 has been in the payment services and banking domain. His education is from NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology as well as from Iowa State University (USA).