Board of directors

Audur's Board of Directors consists of:

Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson, Chairman

Guðbjörg Edda Eggertsdóttir, Non-Executive Director

Halla Tómasdóttir, Non-Executive Director

David Adams, Non-Executive Director

Þóranna Jónsdóttir, Non-Executive Director


Alternate board members are:

Hallgrímur Snorrason

Gunnar Þór Pétursson

Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir

Guðrún Pétursdóttir

Ingunn Wernersdóttir

 

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Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson has been the Chairman of the board of directors sinnce November 2011. He is a professional investor, who focuses mainly on information technology. He is the Chairman of the Board of CCP and of Verne Holding and is on the board of several other companies. Among them are DataMarket, Gogogic and Gogoyoko. Vilhjálmur has been involved in software engineering since 1982 and has professional experience from the software industry in Britain, the Netherlands and in Iceland.

 

Halla TómasdóttirHalla Tómasdottir is a co-founder of Audur Capital. She was the Chairman of the board of directors from the founding date until November 2011. Halla was previously the Managing Director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. She spent 6 years at Reykjavik University and was a key member of the foundation of the University as a founder and director for executive education and women entrepreneurship as well as an assistant professor. Halla spent 10 years in the USA where she started her career first with M&M/Mars and later she joined Pepsi Cola's HR team. Halla has been a non executive director of the boards of a number of organizations including the Icelandic Stock Exchange, Sjova, Iceland's largest insurance company, Vistor, Iceland's main pharmaceutical importer and Calidris, an airline software solutions provider. She currently sits on the boards of Reykjavik University, Veritas Capital hf. and the executive board of Iceland Chamber of Commerce

 

Guðbjörg Edda Eggertsdóttir

 

Guðbjörg Edda Eggertsdóttir is President Iceland, Strategic Projects of Actavis Group. After completing a masters degree in pharmaceuticals, Gudbjörg Edda joined Delta (now part of Actavis) as Marketing Manager in 1983. She was deputy CEO of Delta 1999-2002, whilst also maintaining responsibility for out-licensing, export and development. Following the Delta - Pharmaco merger in 2002, she was appointed a member of the Management Board of the merged company where she still serves. Guðbjörg Edda has been very active in the Icelandic Pharmaceutical Society serving 4 years as deputy chairman, and 4 years as chairman.

 

 

 

 

 

David AdamsDavid Adams David graduated from Loughborough University, England in 1984 with First Class Honours in both Mathematics and Economics. David works as a catalyst to corporate branding and innovations processes, helping companies to find their own solutions. He founded his own company in 2002, building on more than 20 years of experience in the international marketing & communications industry, traveling the world with heavyweights like Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Mars and Shell.  Today, David specializes in working with leading Nordic-International companies and some of his more recent projects include corporate branding exercises with Novo Nordisk, Actavis and Coloplast, and innovation programs for Oticon and Novozymes.

 

 

Thoranna-vefur-minniDr. Þóranna Jónsdóttir is the Senior Executive Director of Administration at Reykjavik University. She was the Managing Director of Service & Communications at Audur from 2007 to April 2011.  Previously she worked as the general manager of Artasan ehf  and was the VP of business development for Veritas Capital/ Vistor hf.  She spent a number of years at Reykjavik University's School of Business, both as a vice dean, assistant professor and management consultant.  Her responsibilities included, management, teaching, research and executive development in the field of marketing, services and change management. Þóranna holds a Doctorate in the field Corporate Governance from Cranfield University in the UK, an MBA degree from IESE, Barcelona and Masters Degree in Pharmaceuticals from the University of Iceland. Þóranna is a chartered stock broker.

 

Audur‘s Audit committee chairman is Hallgrímur Snorrason. Other members are Guðbjörg Edda Eggertsdóttir and Gunnar Þór Pétursson.

audur_idno_hallg-3Hallgrímur Snorrason graduated in economics from the University of Edinburgh in 1969 and continued with post-graduate studies at the University of Lund, Sweden, where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in economics. Hallgrímur was appointed Director General of Statistics Iceland from 1985, a position he held until end 2007 when he retired to take up a carrier as independent consultant in official statistics. His previous positions include Deputy DG at the National Economic Institute 1980-1984, economist at that institute in 1972-1980 and lecturer in economics at the University of Lund in 1970-1971. Hallgrímur has served as a chair or member of numerous government commissions and been a member of the board of directors of private firms. He has been very active in international cooperation in economics and statistics, in particular under the umbrella of the UN and the European Statistical System. At the present time, Hallgrímur is working as consultant on the organization and capacity building of official statistics, mainly in developing countries.  

 

Gunnar

Gunnar Þór Pétursson has a law degree from the University of Iceland from 1997, LLM from the University of Lund in Sweden from 1998. He was admitted to the bar in Iceland in 2002. Gunnar worked for EFTA 1999-2004, with Logos legal services 2004-2005, with Actavis Group 2005-2008.

Gunnar has taught EC law at the legal department of the University of Reykjavik since 2005.

Gunnar is also a lecturer at the Panthéon-Assas  (Paris II) law department in Paris, France and at the legal department of the University in Lund, Sweden.

 

 

Audur's Corporate Governance Guidelines and Audur's Audit committee Guidelines can be found here.

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