Board of Directors

Jon Erik Engeset

Chairman of the Board

Jon Erik Engeset has been CEO & President in Hexagon since 2013. He holds an MSc and MBA from NHH - Norwegian School of Economics.
Prior to joining Hexagon, Jon Erik was the CEO of Saferoad Group, a leading European supplier of road safety solutions.
He also has extensive experience from executive positions at Rolls Royce and Norsk Hydro.

Number of shares: 39,899

Espen Gundersen

Board member

Espen Gundersen is currently the CFO & Deputy CEO of Tomra Systems. He is a professional accountant and has his MBA from BI. Espen started his career at Arthur Andersen as an Auditor before moving to Selmer as a VP. He has held various positions at Tomra since 1999. He currently sits on the board of Kitron.

Martha Kold Bakkevig

Board member

Martha Kold Bakkevig has extensive board experience from various industries, including Kongsberg and BW Group. She was the CEO of Deepwell from 2007-2017.
Martha holds two PhD’s, one of them specializing in Strategies for Commercialization of New Technology from BI.

Jannicke Hilland

Board member

Jannicke Hilland is currently the CEO of BKK Energy. She has a PhD in Engineering from the University of Bergen.
Jannicke has extensive energy sector experience from Statoil and Norsk Hydro. She also sits on various boards, including: Nysnø Klimainvesteringer, Energi Norge and Bonheur.

Knut Flakk

Board member

MSc (BI Norwegian Business School) and MBA (London Business School). Flakk owns the Flakk Gruppen and has extensive experience from establishing, developing and operating industrial companies both in Norway and internationally. He has been CEO of the Flakk Group since 1996.

Number of shares 4,698,587
Includes shares owned by related parties

Rick Rashilla

Board member

Rick Rashilla was named SVP Research & Development in Hexagon in 2020. Prior to his R&D role, Rick has held several key management positions in the Group, most recently as VP Hydrogen Automotive at Hexagon Purus’ location in Germany. He has 35+ years’ experience in managerial and R&D positions related to filament wound pressure vessels and other composites technology from General Dynamics, Brunswick Defence and Lincoln Composites.

Number of shares: 33,968

Karen Romer

Board member

Karen Romer was appointed SVP Communications in Hexagon in April 2020. Prior to joining Hexagon, Karen was Senior Director at Hill & Knowlton Norway (H+K) where she led the corporate communications practice.
Karen has extensive experience from senior communications positions at Lindorff, Couche-Tard/Statoil Fuel & Retail and Aker Solutions.

Number of shares: 272