Board of Directors

OrigoID`s Board of Directors consists of highly competent people with extensive experience from the Access Control, Telecom and Payment Card industries. The board also includes members with deep knowledge of NFC (Near Field Communication) and complementing technologies.

 

Chairman of the Board

Name: Susanne Hannestad
Appointed: 2009
Current occupations: Director at Nordea Finance, chairman and board member in several companies
Experience: Broad industry experience both national and international – financing, retail, cards, FMCG, business/IT consultancy, CRM, payments and insurance. Head of Cards (SVP) at Nordea, Board member of MasterCard Europe Advisory Board, Managing Director at Mind Norge, Sales Director at Steria. MBA from Northeastern University and Executive Program from INSEAD.

 

Members of the Board

 

Name: Josef Noll
Appointed: 2009
Current occupations: Prof. at University Graduate Studies (UNIK) and University of Oslo (UIO), Chief Technologist at Movation and steering board member at Norway section at Mobile Monday.
Experience: Senior Advisor/Senior Researcher at Telenor R&I, Research Manager at Telenor R&D and Staff member at ESA (European Space Agency) ESTEC.

Name: Bernt Christiansen
Appointed: 2010
Current occupations: Advisor for start up companies
Experience: 30 Experience from the Telecom industry.
Sales dir. Scanvest Ring ASA/Managing dir. Scanvest Ring Radiosystemer AS
Man.dir.in Ericsson Radiosystemer AS, Norway
CEO in NetCom GSM AS

Name: Pål Eivind Vegard
Appointed: 2011
Current occupations: Owner of Concito AS
Experience: 15 years Experience from the Telecom Industry. Sales Director at Telenor Mobile, Managing Director and co-founder of Tele1 Europe AS (later Song Networks – now TDC Norge AS), Chairman of the board and later Managing Director at Port IT (now Labs2 Norge), Chairman of the board in OneCall (now part of Network Norway), Sales Manager at Aftenposten, Sales Director Country Manager at Projectplace International.

Name: Tor Bækkelund
Appointed: 2011
Current occupations: Chairman of the Board at AIMS Innovation
Experience: CEO at Hugin Group BV, CEO at Hugin ASA and Vice president at ASSA Abloy subsidiary

Name: Lars F. Windfeldt
Appointed: 2011
Current occupations: Partner at Apax patners, board member at Orkla ASA
Experience: Chairman of Board in Song Networks Holding AB, Venture investor, owner and managing director of Samfunnsfakta Gruppen, Director of Invento AS