corporate governance

Board of Directors

HILJA IBERT
CHAIR OF THE BOARD

30+ years’ experience from the international diagnostic industry, including VP International DiagnosticSolutions at Hologic and senior positions within Becton Dickinson and bioMerieux. She was previously the CEO for miDiagnostics in Belgium.

Dr. Ibert holds a PhD degree in Nutrition Science from the University of Bonn, Germany.

Shareholding: 6 525

ESPEN TIDEMANN JØRGENSEN
BOARD MEMBER

Espen Tidemann Jørgensen is currently Portfolio Manager of Holta Invest and Managing Director of Holta Life Sciences. He has 19 years of experience from financial markets, including positions as equity analyst at DNB Markets, and portfolio manager at Holta Invest AS. Mr. Jørgensen has previously been a member of the board of directors at Weifa ASA, and Cortendo plc (now Strongbridge BioPharma plc). He is currently a board member at Decisions AS in addition to Gentian Diagnostics ASA.

Mr. Jørgensen holds a MSc in Economics and has completed 3 years of Medicine studies at the University of Oslo.

Shareholding: 17 000

KARI E. KROGSTAD
BOARD MEMBER

Kari Krogstad has more than 25 years of experience from the biomedical industry, from commercial leadership roles within the pharma, biotech and medtech sectors. Ms. Krogstad has held her current role as President and CEO at Medistim ASA since 2009. She was previously General Manager at Invitrogen Dynal.

Ms. Krogstad holds a Cand. Scient. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Oslo as well as a Business degree from IHM Business School.

Shareholding: 2 325

FREDRIK THORESEN
BOARD MEMBER

Fredrik Thoresen is a partner in Kvantia AS where he joined in 2021. Mr. Thoresen has previous buy and sell-side experience from Storebrand Asset Management, SEB, DNB Markets, and Sector Asset Management AS.

Mr. Thoresen has an MBA in International Business from Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics from Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Shareholding: 28 160

KJERSTI GRIMSRUD
BOARD MEMBER

Kjersti Grimsrud is currently President and COO of Infusion care at Convatec plc, where she has spent the last 5 years. She has over 30 years’ experience in MedTech and IVD companies with roles in science, operations and commercial in Axis-Shield ASA and Alere Inc./Abbott, where she last held the position of VP Commercial EME (Europe Middle East)  and International (APAC). Ms Grimsrud served as a board member of Biotec Pharmacon ASA (now ArcticZymes technologies ASA) from 2011 to 2015.

Ms. Grimsrud holds a master’s degree in biotechnology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

IR Contact

Njaal Kind
CFO, Gentian Diagnostics ASA
njaal.kind@gentian.com
+47 91906525