Rolf Jansson is currently CEO of Aspo Group. Prior to that, he held the position as President and CEO at VR Group, Finnish Railways. Before joining VR Group Jansson worked in investment banking at Nordea Corporate Finance and holds extensive experience from management consulting primarily at Booz Allen Hamilton. Jansson is currently a Board member at Sarlin Group, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company and East Office of Finnish Industries. Jansson represents VR Group Oy which holds approximately 18% of the shares in NRC Group. Jansson currently holds 65,000 shares in the company. Member of the Board of NRC Group since January 2019.
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Corporate governance
Board of directors
Mats Williamson (1958)
Board member
Mats Williamson has more than 35 years of experience from various positions within the Skanska Group. Williamson has been Executive Vice President for the Skanska Group, Business Unit President for Skanska’s construction activities in Sweden and UK and Project Director for the Öresund Bridge. Williamson holds a MSc in Civil Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology and has an AMP from Harvard Business School. He has held positions as Board member in several companies in Sweden. Williamson holds 30,000 shares in the company. Member of the Board of NRC Group since July 2018.
Eva Nygren (1955)
Board member
Eva Nygren has more than 35 years of operational experience in the building and civil engineering industry, including as Director of Investment at Swedish Transport Administration, President and CEO of Rejlers and President of Sweco Sverige. She is currently active as a professional Board member and Chairman in several stock exchange listed, private and state-owned companies in the Nordics. Nygren currently holds 3,000 shares in the company. Member of the Board of NRC Group since January 2019.
Tove Elisabeth Pettersen (1970)
Board member
Tove Elisabeth Pettersen has extensive experience from several senior positions at Hafslund and, most recently, from her positions as Director of Administration at Bane NOR and Jernbaneverket. Pettersen has served on the Boards of Eidsiva Vekst, Client Computing Europe ASA, DNB Livforsikring, Infratek and Klemetsrudanlegget. Currently, she serves the Board of Statnett SF as Board member and deputy. Pettersen holds 5,000 shares in NRC Group and has held the position as Board member in NRC Group since May 2020.
Outi Henriksson (1969)
Board member
Outi Henriksson has an extensive senior management background from banking, transportation and telecom and has 20 years of experience as CFO, since 2017 at Aktia Bank Plc and formerly in VR Group. Ms. Henriksson serves as a Board member of Aktia Livsförsäkring AB and Adapteo Plc, and as Chairman of the Audit committee for the latter. Member of the Board of NRC Group since May 2021. Henriksson holds 5000 shares in NRC Group.
Heikki Allonen (1954)
Board member
Heikki Allonen is a board professional with extensive experience from senior management and Board positions. He has in his career worked as CEO in public and listed companies like SRV Oyj, Fiskars Corporation and Patria Group for some 20 years. Mr Allonen is currently the vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of VR Group Oy and Savox Oy and a board member of Nokian Tyres Plc and Port of Helsinki Oy. Mr. Allonen has previously served as Chairman of the board for the Norwegian defence company Nammo AS. Allonen has held the position as board member in NRC Group since May 2021 and holds 28,000 shares in company.
Karin Bing Orgland (1959)
Board member
Bing Orgland has a broad financial background. During the period of 1985-2013 she held different managerial positions within the DNB Group, latest from 2009- 2013 as Group Executives Vice President Corporate and Personal Banking Norway. Since 2013, Bing Orgland has been active as a professional board member in different listed and government-owned companies. Bing Orgland is currently Chairman of the board in Entur and Board member of Storebrand ASA, Kid ASA and Eksportfinansiering Norge. Bing Orgland holds 15,000 shares in NRC Group. She has held the position as Board member in NRC Group since May 2022.
Executive management
Henning Olsen
CEO
Olsen comes from the position as executive vice president in AF Gruppen, where he has been responsible for the Building business area in Norway since 2016. His previous roles in AF Gruppen include head of AF Eiendom, financial director within AF Bygg Oslo and group controller. Before joining AF Gruppen in 2010, he has been employed at Statkraft and Boston Consulting Group. Henning holds a Master of Science degree in Business from BI Norwegian Business School (2003). Olsen holds 135,000 share options and 114,306 shares in the company.
Ole Anton Guldsvik
CFO
Gulsvik has more than 15 years experience from various managerial roles. He comes from the role as CEO of Seven Seas Group (former Eitzen Maritime Services), where he served as CEO from 2016 and as CFO from 2012 to 2015 when the company was listed at the Oslo Stock Exchange. Gulsvik holds a strong capital market background from among others Carnegie and Handelsbanken as analyst both within equity and credits, and later in corporate finance. Gulsvik holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Currently, he holds 133,996 shares and 75,000 share options in the company.
Robert Röder
EVP & MD NRC Group Sweden
Röder has more than 35 years of railway industry experience. He was previously CEO of Strukton Rail Scandinavia and board member of Strukton Rail Group. Röder has executed and managed several large infrastructure projects. Röder has been Managing Director of NRC Sweden since September 2019. Röder currently holds 30,000 shares and 54,125 share options in the company.
Harri Lukkarinen
EVP & MD NRC Group Finland
Lukkarinen has more than 20 years of railway industry experience. He was previously CEO of VR Track Oy and Director for infrastructure projects at CMC Terasto Oy which was part of Pöyry Group. He served as a management team member of VR Group. Lukkarinen has been Managing Director of NRC Finland since January 2019. Lukkarinen holds 16,692 shares and 115,500 share options in the company.
Lene Engebretsen
EVP & Head of Communications
Engebretsen comes from the position as Director for Internal Communications Europe in Cognizant. She has been responsible for strategic communications and change management lead for several large projects the last years. Her previous roles in Cognizant include Director of Business Relations and Head of Communications. Before joining Cognizant in 2016, she held positions as Head of Communications for different tech and media companies. Lene holds a Master of Finance degree from BI Norwegian Business School (2002). She holds 9,259 shares and 41,000 share options in NRC Group.
Arild Ingar Moe
EVP & MD NRC Group Norway
Moe has more than 30 years’ experience from the civil industry. Since 2009 he has been Vice President for the Civil Construction division and a part of the executive management at AF Gruppen in Norway. Previous roles in AF Gruppen include leading the integration of the acquired construction company Ragnar Evensen and the position as Managing Director for this company, which later became AF Bygg Oslo. Moe holds an Engineering degree from Oslo Ingeniørhøgskole (1988) and a Bachelor of Economics degree from Agder Ingeniør og Distrikshøgskole (1989). He holds 232,033 shares and 57,000 share options in the company.
Jussi Mattsson
EVP & Head of Strategy and Business Development
Jussi Mattsson joined NRC Group 1 February 2021. Before joining NRC Group, Jussi worked for Rettig Group, a family owned investment company, where he focused on value creation for the company’s core investments. Prior to that he worked for Boston Consulting Group. He has a master of Science degree from the Aalto University School of Economics. Mattsson holds 5,252 shares and 35,000 share options in NRC Group.
Marianne Ulland Kellmer
EVP & Head of HR
Kellmer comes from the position as HR Director for NRC Group Norway, and before joining NRC Group she was Nordic HR Transformation Specialist in Oracle. Since 2007 Kellmer has held various HR leadership roles in different industries, and among others she has been Head of Group HR in the Norsk Gjenvinning Group, HR Manager in Scandic hotels and Organizational and Communications Manager within the public transportation sector in greater Oslo region. Marianne holds a Bachelor Degree in Service Management from the University of Stavanger, Norway.
Committees
Nomination committee
NRC Group has established a nomination committee composed of three members, who shall be shareholders or shareholder representatives.
The nomination committee shall give its recommendation to the general meeting on election of and compensation to members of the Board of Directors, in addition to election of members of the nomination committee. The proposals will be justified and presented to the general meeting together with supporting documents for the general meeting.
The current members of the nomination committee are:
- Kjell Forsén (committee leader)
- Lasse Olsen
- Ole-Wilhelm Meyer
The current members are elected with a term until the company’s ordinary general meeting in 2022. All members are independent of the Board of Directors and the executive management.
Nomination of candidates to the Board
NRC Group’s shareholders are entitled to nominate candidates to the Board of Directors of NRC Group ASA. Nominations are submitted by sending an e-mail to Alfred.beck[@]nrcgroup.com.
Nominations must be received well in advance to be considered for the election at NRC Groups annual general meeting that year.
All proposals should include information about the candidate, reasons for consideration and contact information to the person the candidate is nominated by.
Audit committee
The Board of Directors has established an audit committee, currently consisting of the following two members:
- Tove Elisabeth Pettersen (Chair)
- Outi Henriksson
The main tasks of the audit committee are to prepare the Board of Directors’ supervision of the company’s financial reporting process; monitor the systems for internal control and risk management; have continuous contact with the company's auditor regarding the audit of the annual accounts; and review and monitor the independence of the company's auditor, including in particular the extent to which services than auditing provided by the auditor or the audit firm represent a threat to the independence of the auditor.
The audit committee reports and makes recommendations to the Board, but the Board of Directors retains responsibility for implementing such recommendations.
Compensation committee
The Board of Directors has established a compensation committee composed of two Board members. The current members of the compensation committee are:
- Rolf Jansson (Chair)
- Eva Nygren
The primary purpose of the compensation committee is to assist and facilitate the decision making of the Board of Directors in matters relating to the remuneration of the executive management of the Group, reviewing recruitment policies, career planning and management development plans, and prepare matters relating to other material employment issues in respect of the executive management.
The compensation committee reports and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors, but the Board of Directors retains responsibility for implementing such recommendations.
Project committee
The Board of Directors has established a project committee composed of two Board members. The current members of the project committee are:
- Mats Williamson (Chair)
- Heikki Allonen
The main purpose of the project committee is to assist and evaluate the risk in tender offerings with total value exceeding NOK 250 million. The committee shall assess whether the Group has made necessary work in connection with tender offerings to eliminate risk and ensure good project execution prior to submission. Further, the committee assesses whether the project is coherent with the strategies and frameworks that the Board of Directors has decided that NRC Group shall work within.