Former Skretting CEO joins board of Norwegian offshore salmon-farming company

After seven years as CEO of Skretting, we learned last April that Therese Log Bergjord was stepping down from her role. "It was time for a change," she said then. The resignation took effect in June and, since then, she has been announcing her arrival on various boards, most recently that of the Norwegian offshore salmon-farming company, SalMar Aker Ocean.

Member of various Boards of Directors

While stepping down as CEO at the Nutreco-owned aquafeed company, Therese Log Bergjord also left the Board of the Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS), a joint initiative that looks to strengthen sustainable practices within the seafood industry, although she kept her seat on others and, from August until now, has been joining a few more.

Among the boards of directors to which she already was a member are those of the University of Stavanger Business School, the leading crop nutrition and environmental and agricultural solutions provider Yara International, and Nordic Aqua Partners, the first commercial-scale RAS Atlantic salmon producer in China.

Just a couple of months after leaving Skretting, in August, Bergjord joined the Board of Norwegian investment company Kverva, and in November she also joined the Board of Fiskå Mølle, Norway's largest private supplier of concentrated feed and operational equipment for agriculture. In the same month, she became chair of the Board of the energy company Aneo.

Not her first time with SalMar

Therese Log Bergjord's participation on the Board of SalMar Aker Ocean, will not be her first collaboration with the SalMar Group. Although it was for a short period in the summer of 2017, she was already a member of the Board of Directors at the Norwegian salmon producer founded by Gustav Witzøe.

Precisely, it is Witzøe who backs Kverva, the private investment company specializing in aquaculture and marine resources of which Bergjord became a Board member in August. The company, created in 1991 as a holding company of SalMar ASA, sold part of its stake to private investors after SalMar was listed on the stock exchange, although it remains its largest shareholder.

Now, in addition to Witzøe, the former Skretting CEO will share the table on the Salmar Aker Ocean Board with chairman Atle Sveinung Eide, and members Lene Landøy -Investment Director of Aker ASA-, and Øyvind Eriksen -President and CEO of Aker ASA-.