Presenting companies: Salmar Aker Ocean | Utror | Bue Salmon | Gigante Salmon | Stolt Sea Farm | The Kingfish Company | Laxey | GeoSalmo | First Water
AQUA Land & New Tech
Company presentations
Salmar Aker Ocean
Trine Romuld - TBD
Extensive experience from the salmon production sector
– SalMar (CFO)
– Pan Fish / Marine Harvest (CFO)
– Bakkafrost (board position)
Experience from the oil service / drilling sector
– Aker Drilling
– Transocean
– Bjørge / Stream / MRC Global
More than 25 years in various leadership positions.
More than 10 years in auditing / consulting sector.
Board member in listed companies for more than 10 years.
Experience from Norwegian and international companies.
Utror
Lars Konrad Johnsen - Head of business development
Lars Konrad has a degree in business administration. He previously worked as an equity analyst with responsibility for the seafood sector at Fearnley Securities and Carnegie.
Lars Konrad was involved in establishing Utror in November 2021.
Bue Salmon
Knut Eikeland
Gigante Salmon
Rune Johansen - CFO
CFO in Gigante Salmon and Salten Aqua, with in-dept knowledge of the Gigante companies and their projects. Experience from Insula AS and Equinor ASA. Msc in Business from Handelshøgskolen Nord Universitet, Bodø.
Stolt Sea Farm
Jordi Trias Fita - President
Jordi Trias became President of Stolt Sea Farm in January 2018 after joining the business as Managing Director in 2016. Prior to this he spent 14 years with GBFoods, where he held several positions in marketing, sales and business unit management, located in Spain, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Senegal. Jordi holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Barcelona, a masters degree in Marketing, and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa. He is a citizen of Spain.
The Kingfish Company
Jean-Charles Valette - CEO
Jean-Charles Valette has held various financial leadership positions at food and production companies, both in listed and private environments. Most recently, he worked as the Vice-President Finance of Dott, a fast growing scale-up. Prior to this role, he was senior Vice-President Finance for CEVA Logistics, where he was directly involved in generating US$1.2 billion through a successful IPO on the SIX Swiss stock exchange. Jean-Charles brings great added value towards building, growing and transforming companies. Furthermore, he has strong expertise in corporate finance, process optimizations and transformations.
Laxey
Larus Asgeirsson - COB
Lárus Ásgeirsson brings over 30 years of diverse leadership experience in aquaculture, agriculture, and food production. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board at LAXEY, where he is dedicated to advancing sustainable land-based salmon farming. Throughout his career, Lárus has held several important roles, including General Manager of the Shrimp Business Unit at National Aquaculture Group (NAQUA) and General Manager of the Poultry Division at Almarai. He has also served as CEO of both Icelandic Group hf and Sjova Almennar tryggingar hf and has held senior leadership positions at Marel hf.
GeoSalmo
Jens Thordarson - CEO
Jens Þórðarson joined the aquaculture industry to become the CEO of GeoSalmo in 2021, at a time when the company was starting the development of its first fish farm. He is an engineer has a background in diverse management roles, primarily in the aviation industry with his last role being the COO of Icelandair Group since 2017. He has also done advisory and consulting work in the aviation and energy sectors.
First Water
Eggert Kristofersson - CEO
Born in 1970, Eggert Þór worked from 1995 to 2008 at Íslandsbanki and Glitnir Bank. He served as the managing director of Glitnir Bank’s asset management in Iceland and Finland. Eggert Þór held the position of a finance manager of the company N1 (now the listed retail company Festi hf.) in 2011 and later CEO in February 2015. Eggert has been the chairman of the board of N1, Krónan, ELKO, Festi Real Estate, Bakkinn Supply Hotel, Malik Supply A/S and Nordic Marine Oil in Denmark.
Eggert Þór has a Cand. Oecon. degree in business administration and auditing from the University of Iceland and is a licensed stockbroker.
