Who We Are

The Board.

Hans Runshaug – Chairman of the Board

• External member of the board, joined the company in June 2015.

 
Hans has extensive experience from top management positions and consulting over a period of 37 years, in different branches and industries. Projects and assignments have included turnarounds, start-ups, production improvements, organization structure build-ups, M&A's, company sales and technology to market strategies. Assignments and jobs have been in Norway, China, Canada, USA, Denmark and England.  Specialties: Management consulting, CEO or project management for hire on an interim basis to carry out special tasks for companies in change. Business Development and Growth strategies as core focus.
Hans main responsibilities in the company as a COB are: to manage the board, to manage the CEO/sales – business development manager and to bring external investor(s) on the board.
 
 
Karin Pittman

• Member of the board.
• Chief Scientific Officer, and the researcher behind the technology
• 20% share owner,

 
Karin Pittman is a professor of fish biology in the Fisheries Ecology and Aquaculture Research Group at Department of Biomedicine at the University of Bergen. She has more than 20 years of research experience in the industry and has been awarded “oppfinneren prisen” for this technology by Hordaland county in 2013. In 2015 she has been awarded the Olav Thon Stiftelsen’s prise for exceptional teaching.
 
 
Bjarne Ravnøy

• Member of Board,
• 20% share owner.

Bjarne is responsible for industrial relations within the fish farming industry and has a long career building up his own company Produs Aqua AS, specializing in chemicals and cleaning agents for agriculture and aquaculture. This company is now part of Alltech AS.
 
 
Frode Igland

• Member of the Board

 
Frode is a professional with diverse senior level hands-on experience within Investment banking, Banking, Credit & Equity Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions & Divestments.
He has also had previous senior Management positions in several cyclical international industries dealing specifically with Restructuring, Change Management, Troubleshooting and Conflict Management.
 
 
 
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