Kjell Inge Røkke - Chairman of the board
Entrepreneur and industrialist Kjell Inge Røkke, is Aker ASA’s main owner, has been a driving force in the development of Aker since the 1990s. Mr. Røkke launched his business career with the purchase of a 69-foot trawler in the United States in 1982, and gradually built a leading worldwide fisheries business: harvesting and ocean-going processing of white fish. In 1996, Mr. Røkke purchased enough Aker shares to become Aker’s largest shareholder.

Kaare Gisvold - Director
Kaare Moursund Gisvold (born 1942) is an independent investor and advisor. Gisvold has a PhD from NTNU in Norway. He serves, amongst other things, as chairman of the board in the media business Polaris.

Gisvold was reelected as member of the Board 24 June 2009. Gisvold served as Chairman of the board of Det norske from 2005 until February 2009.

Berge Gerdt Larsen - Director
Berge G. Larsen (1952) has served as the Executive Chairman of DNO’s Board of Directors since 2002 and as CEO from 1996-2002.  Mr Larsen has more than 30 years experience from the oil and offshore industry. From 1989 to 1995, Mr Larsen served as managing director of Odfjell Drilling & Consulting Company AS. He has also served as chairman of the boards of directors of the Norwegian Rig Owners Association and the Bergen Ship Owners Association. Mr Larsen holds a BSc in chemical engineering from the University of Newcastle and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas, Austin.

Maria Moræus Hansen - Director
Maria Moræus Hanssen (born 1965) has worked in Aker since June 2008. Ms. Moræus Hanssen is a reservoir engineer from NTNU in Norway (1988) and a petroleum economist from the French Petroleum Institute IFP (1991). She worked for Norsk Hydro from 1992, mainly on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, where her areas of responsibility included North Sea exploration, field development on the NCS, the integration of Statoil and Hydro and platform chief (on Troll B and others). She was also senior vice president for gas supply and infrastructure in StatoilHydro.

Bodil Alteren - Director
Bodil Alteren (born 1963) is HSE Manager in Det norske oljeselskap ASA, and has been since 2006. She holds a Master of Science from NTH and PhD. from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Alteren was in the period 1993-2006 employed at SINTEF, among other as Senior Researcher. Before this she worked within the mining industry, among others as General Manager and Mining Operations Manager.

Gunnar Eide - Director
Gunnar H. Eide, (born 1947) is currently the Manager for the early phase development in Det norske.
Eide holds a Master of Sience from NTNU/Berg. Experience from the oil industry includes DNV (74-83), Saga Petroleum (83-99), Norske Hydro (00-02), and Petoro (02.08). He has long experience with field development planning and execution of development projects and business development. Eide came to Det norske in 2007 from Petoro as Area Manager for licenses in the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea. In Det norske the main tasks have been Frøy development planning and Draupne Hanz commercialization project.