Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Matts Johansen has been CEO of Aker BioMarine since 2015. He first joined the company in 2009 as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his career in Aker BioMarine, Johansen served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Telefónica O2. He studied at Oslo University College and completed executive education at Columbia University.

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Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Katrine Klaveness became CFO of Aker BioMarine in 2018. Prior to joining Aker BioMarine, she spent the first part of her career in McKinsey & Company, followed by several years in senior positions in Aker ASA’s investment team and Aker BP. Klaveness holds a master’s degree from BI Norwegian Business School.

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Chief Officer People & Communication

Hege Spaun joined Aker BioMarine in 2016. She is responsible for the People and Culture, as well as ensuring that the company is in the forefront of driving the sustainability agenda and transitioning our operations accordingly. She previously held various positions in DNV. Spaun holds a master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Oslo.

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Human Health Ingredients

Simon Seward joined Aker BioMarine in 2019. He is now the CEO of Aker BioMarine’s Human Health Ingredient business. Prior to joining Aker BioMarine, he was SVP Sales & Marketing at Algalif and Commercial Director at NutraQ. Seward has a master’s degree in Marketing from Staffordshire University.

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Chairman

Ola Snøve has served as Aker BioMarine’s Chair of the Board since 2014. Previously, he was Investment Director of Aker ASA for more than ten years, and he is the former President & CEO of Epax. Snøve holds a MSc and a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD. 

Snøve is a Norwegian citizen and as of August 2023, holds a total of 858,619 shares. Snøve has no share options.

Snøve is independent of the company’s management and material business contacts.

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Director

Kimberly Mathisen became CEO of HUB Ocean in January 2022, after serving as GM Norway for Microsoft. She is on the Board of Bayer and Aize and is on the Advisory Board of Nysnø and Sintef. She has served on the Boards of e.g Yara, Abelia, NHST and Kappa Bioscience. Mathisen has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mathisen is an American and Norwegian citizen and had no company shares or share options as of August, 2023.

Mathisen is independent of the company’s management, and material business contacts.

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Director, elected by the employees

Kristin Holmgren, an employee-elected representative to the Board, has been a part of Aker BioMarine since 2019. Holmgren is the company's inhouse Intellectual Property manager. Holmgren has a degree in Molecular Biology from NTNU and is in progress to be an European Patent Attorney. 

Holmgren is a Norwegian citizen and has 3467 shares as of August, 2023.

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Director

Cilia Holmes Indahl leads the foundation for EQT, a global investment company. She is also the Co-founder of Sustainability Hub Norway. Indahl holds an Economics degree with a double master's degree in International Business and Sustainable Innovation from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and HEC Paris.

Indahl is a Norwegian citizen and had no company shares or share options as of August, 2023.

Indahl is independent of the company’s main shareholder.

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Director

Frank O. Reite (born 1970) first joined Aker in 1995 and held the position as CFO in Aker ASA from August 2015 until August 2019. He is now an advisor. He holds a B.A. in business administration from BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. Mr. Reite has previously held the position as President & CEO of Akastor (up until 2015), and has previously also held a variety of executive positions in the Aker group, including overseeing and developing Aker’s investments in Converto Capital Fund AS, Havfisk ASA, Norway Seafoods AS and Aker Yards ASA. Mr. Reite also has experience from banking and served as Operating Director at Paine & Partners, a New York-based private equity firm. He is also chair of Akastor ASA, Converto AS and Norron AB, and director of AMSC ASA and Solstad Offshore ASA. In addition to serving as deputy chair, Mr. Reite is the head of the Audit Committee at Aker ASA.

Reite is a Norwegian citizen and had no company shares or share options as of August, 2023.

Reite is independent of the company’s management and material business contacts. 

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Director

Anne Harris has been the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Statkraft since 2019, and has previously held leadership roles in Norsk Hydro ASA, Entra Eiendom AS and Multiconsult ASA. She has been on the Board at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) (2015-2021) and COWI Holding from 2021. Harris holds an MSc from BI Norwegian Business School.

Harris is a Norwegian citizen and had no company shares or share options as of August, 2023.

Harris is independent of the company’s management, material business contacts and main shareholder.

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Director, elected by the employees

Thomas Røkke, an employee-elected representative to the Board, has been a part of Aker BioMarine since 2017. He currently serves as an Engineer in the Technology and Process Development team. Røkke holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Røkke is a Norwegian citizen and had no company shares or share options as of August, 2023.

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