Freyr Battery announces appointments to senior management and board

Freyr Battery has announced two appointments to the senior management and Board of Directors. Birger Steen, currently Board Chair of Nordic Semiconductor and Pagero, has been appointed CEO effective as of August 21st and to the Board of Directors, effective August 9th. Steen has experience in roles at companies including Parallels, Microsoft, Schibsted and McKinsey & Co. Tom Einar Jensen, CEO, has been appointed Executive Chair of the Board of Directors effective August 21st. Torstein Dale Sjotveit, Founder and Executive Chair, has retired, effective August 9th. Prior to joining Freyr, Birger Steen was a Thematic Partner at Summa Equity. He is currently Board Chair at Nordic Semiconductor ASA and Pagero Group AB and serves on the boards of Nordea Bank Abp, where he chairs the Operations and Sustainability Committee, and Pragmatic Semiconductor. He was previously CEO of Parallels, WW Vice President of Distribution & SMB at Microsoft, both in Seattle, VP & General Manager at Microsoft Russia and General Manager at Microsoft Norge AS. Prior to joining Microsoft, Steen was CEO at Scandinavia Online AS, a VP at Schibsted ASA and a consultant at McKinsey & Co.