Board of Directors and Executive Management

Gustav Witzøe joined the board of directors as board chair in SalMar June 2022. Mr. Witzøe is the co-founder of SalMar ASA. He holds a degree in engineering. After several years as an engineer he co-founded BEWI AS, a company producing styrofoam boxes for the fish farming industry. Mr. Witzøe held the position as managing director of BEWI AS until 1990. Since Mr. Witzøe founded SalMar ASA in 1991 he has gained extensive experience in fish farming and processing.

Mr Witzøe indirectly owns 93,02% of Kverva AS, which in turn through Kverva Industrier AS owns 45.4% of the shares in SalMar ASA. Mr Witzøe is also a director of Kverva AS.

Citizenship: Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway
Independent: No

Margrethe Hauge is CEO of Goodtech ASA and has held management positions within production, supply chain, service and sales in aqua, agriculture, maritime and oil & gas industries. She has held positions as CEO at Teknisk Bureau AS, Regional Managing Director – Nordic & Germany at MRC Global Inc. and Executive Vice President Services at TTS Group ASA. She has also held several management positions at Kverneland Group. Ms Hauge started her career as trainee at Norsk Hydro ASA. She is member of the board of Borregaard ASA and Mesta AS. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics & Business Administration, University of Mannheim, Germany.

Nationality: Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway
Independent: Yes

Nordhammer was previously CEO in SalMar from 1996 to 2016, with a hiatus from 2011 to 2014. Today he works in his investment company LIN AS and is board member of Kverva AS. He has extensive experience from leadership positions from several companies within aquaculture and has been a part of the industry since 1985. Former companies include Sparebank 1 Midt-Norge, E. Boneng & Sønn, Frøya Holding AS/ and Hydro Seafood AS. Nordhammer has educational background for Norwegian Armed Forces, Trondheim Business School and University in Trondheim. Nordhammer joined the board of SalMar in June 2020.

Nordhammer owns indirectly 1,47% of the shares in SalMar ASA. He owns 99,1% of LIN AS which directly owns 1,01% of the shares in SalMar ASA and indirectly LIN AS owns 0,45% of the shares in SalMar ASA through its 1% ownershare in Kverva AS, which through through Kverva Industrier AS owns 45,4% of the shares in SalMar ASA.

Nationality: Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway
Independent: No

Arnhild Holstad joined the board of directors in SalMar June 2022. She is the Regional Manager at Statskog, and non-executive board member in Helse Midt-Norge RHF. She has previously been the mayor of Namsos for 6 years, and has board experience from Sparebank1 SMN and NTE. She has extensive experience from political and executive positions within communication. She is a graduate of the Norwegian School of Journalism, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Shares: Owns indirectly through related parties 3,346 shares in SalMar ASA.

Citizenship: Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway
Independent: Yes

Morten Loktu joined the board of directors in SalMar June 2022. He has held several senior positions at Equinor as Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Senior Vice President (LEAN and Operational Improvement), Senior Vice President (Operations North) and Senior Vice President (Research & Innovation). He was the CEO of SINTEF for 3 years and Executive Vice President of Statoil. He is a graduate of Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is a board member in SalMar Aker Ocean and Frøy.

Citizenship: Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway
Independent: Yes

Shares: 1,000

Ingvild Kindlihagen has a degree in Business Economics from UiT and NHH, and has also studied for a year at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and a semester at Gründerskolen (UiO and University of Berkeley). In 2020, Ingvild began her career at SalMar as a Controller for Sales and Industry. She now works as the Financial Manager for InnovaNor and is part of the company’s improvement team.

Nationality: Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway

Shares: 46
RSU-Rights: 974

Educated traffic pilot. Has been working in the industry since 1993, both on fish farms, as a mate on a freighter vessel, and since 2002 at the factory in Frøya. Chief union representative for NNN InnovaMar since 2020 and currently serving on the National Board for NNN. Has served four terms in the municipal council in Frøya and as Mayor from 2007 to 2011.

Nationality: Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway
Shares: 0
RSU-Rights: 0

Frode Arntsen has been CEO since October 2022. He started in SalMar in 2017 as COO, Industry and Sales. He has a background from the Norwegian Military, and is educated as a lecturer within management. He has worked in the seafood industry since 2000, and has previously held senior/director positions at Lerøy Midnor, HitraMat and Lerøy Midt.

Born: 1970
Shares: 6 962
RSUs: 9 131

ULRIK STEINVIK
CFO
Steinvik started in the position as CFO in October 2021, prior to this he has held several leading positions in the executive management. Mr. Steinvik holds the title as Norwegian state authorized public accountant. Berfore Steinvik joined SalMar in 2006 he served with Arthur Andersen Norway and Ernst & Young AS from 1998 to 2006. He graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 2002.

Born: 1974
Shares: 120 478. Owns 19,721 shares directly and indirectly through personal related parties. Also owns 100 per cent of the shares in Nordpilan AS. Nordpilan AS owns 0.17 per cent of the shares in Kverva AS, which in turn through Kverva Industrier AS owns 45.4 per cent of the shares in SalMar ASA.
RSU-rights: 5 312

Roger Bekken took over as COO Farming on 4 June 2018. Mr Bekken has worked in the seafood sector since 1991. He has held a variety of executive positions in the industry. Before joining SalMar is 2014, he was COO of Farming at Norway Royal Salmon (NRS). From 2014 until June 2018, Mr Bekken was managing director at SalMar Farming AS.

Born: 1967
Shares: 14 509. 14 373 directly and 136 shares indirectly through related parties.
RSU-Rights: 6 541

Simon Søbstad took over as COO Sales & Industry in October 2022. From January 2018 he held the position as second in command Sales & Industry and since he started in SalMar in 2007 he has held several roles. Søbstad has education within aquaculture and has worked in the seafood industry since 2002.

Born: 1982
Shares: 604
RSU-Rights: 4 338

Eva Haugen has held the position as Director Quality Management/HSE since 2013. She has worked in SalMar since 2001 where she has held several leading positions within quality management. She has several years of experience as a teacher in secondary school subjects such as aquaculture, science and biology. Haugen is a graduate from NTNU in the fields of chemistry, biology and education studies and holds a degree in ecotoxicology and physiology in salmonids.

Born: 1971
Shares: 0
RSU-Rights: 3 233

Wisniewski has worked at SalMar since 2016 and took up the position as Director Human Resource Management in 2018. He previously worked as HR Manager in the company. Wisniewski came from a similar position at German Wacker Chemicals and has many years of experience working with change and development processes within the HR field as an advisor and consultant in both the private and public sector. He has a Master’s degree from NTNU in Science-Technology-Society studies (STS), as well as a Bachelor’s degree in sociology from the same university.

Born: 1978
Shares: 2 772
RSU-Rights: 3 888

Sivertsen has worked at SalMar since 2010 and took up the position as Chief Strategy Officer in April 2020. He has previously worked as the Investor Relations Officer and before that as an analyst for the company. Sivertsen has a Master of Science in Business degree from NTNU Business School and has also completed The Solstrand programme Accelerate

Born: 1985
Shares: 4 509. 4 314 directly and 195 shares indirectly through related parties.
RSU-Rights: 3 806