Julie Galbo
Chairperson
Julie has 20+ years of private and public sector experience in financial services. She was a member of the Group Executive Management of Nordea and the Executive Management in Nordea Asset Management. Previously, she held various public positions including Head of State Capital Injections with the Danish Ministry of Business and Deputy Director General with the DK Financial Supervisory Authority.
Julie obtained Master of Law from the University of Copenhagen and from Aarhus University and completed a management program at INSEAD.
Nomination & Remuneration Committee (Member)
Strategy Committee (Member)
Olivier Jaquet
Board member (Vice Chairperson)
Olivier is an independent entrepreneur, investor and a board member in a number of investment-, real estate- and start-up companies. Olivier has worked for over 20 years in the financial sector where he was CEO of Credit Suisse Life and Credit Suisse Trust and CEO of Clariden Leu and Centrum Bank. During his time at Credit Suisse, he was a board member in several subsidiaries of Credit Suisse Group and the Credit Suisse Pension Fund.
Olivier obtained his doctorate in law from University of Basel.
Nomination & Remuneration Committee (Chair)
Audit & Risk Committee (Member)
Maria Hjorth
Board member
Maria is currently a board member of Maj Invest, an asset management company and Asetek, a technology company, both based in Denmark. Previously, she was the CEO of VP Securities, Denmark’s Central Securities Depository and of Mercer – Denmark. She also was Head of International Corporate Banking and Head of Business Development for Business Banking at Danske Bank – Denmark and has worked in M&A at Carnegie investment bank.
Maria holds a MSc in Economics from University of Copenhagen and a MSc in Business Psychology from Westminster University in London.
Audit & Risk Committee (Chair)
Casey Rosenthal
Board member
He is the Founder and CEO of Prowler Inc. Previously he was an engineering manager at Netflix in the Traffic Engineering and the Chaos Engineering Teams. Casey has managed teams to tackle Big Data and architect solutions to difficult problems. He finds opportunities to leverage his experience with distributed systems, artificial intelligence, translating novel algorithms and academia into working models, and selling a vision of the possible to clients and colleagues alike. Casey also models human behavior using personality profiles in Ruby, Erlang, Elixir, Prolog, Scala, and other languages. He speaks frequently on the topics of Chaos Engineering and Complexity.
Nomination & Remuneration Committee (Member)
Anne Templeman-Jones
Board member
Anne has substantial experience as a board member of listed and unlisted companies across different sectors such as banking and finance, energy, health and cyber security. Anne has held a number of executive positions in various international corporations.
She is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Blackmores Ltd, member of the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd. and Worley Ltd.
Anne is a Chartered Accountant (Australia/New Zealand) and holds a Master in Risk Management from the University of New South Wales, an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia.
Audit & Risk Committee (Member)
Erik Theodor Jakobsen
Board member
Erik has a very broad expertise as an investment professional and board member of several companies across different industry sectors. Furthermore, Erik has specific skills in identifying and executing on new investment opportunities and in M&A activities. Erik currently works as an Investment Professional at Ferd Capital AS and prior to joining Ferd Capital AS Erik worked several years for Ernst & Young in the Transaction Advisory Services division.
Geeta Schmidt
Board member
Geeta brings substantial industry knowledge from the software and technology industry.
As the former CEO and Co-founder of Humio, later acquired by Crowdstrike where she served as Vice President, she has a proven track record as an enterprise software executive with an entrepreneurial mindset.
As a US citizen with a Danish permanent residency, Geeta brings a perfect mix of knowledge from both the European and US markets.