The Nomination Committee of Telenor ASA has submitted its proposal to theCorporate Assembly ofTelenor ASA for the election of shareholder elected members to the Board of Directors ofTelenor ASA . The following members of the Board of Directors ofTelenor ASA are up for election by theCorporate Assembly in 2022: Board memberPieter Cornelis Knook was first elected by theCorporate Assembly on11 May 2020 for a period of up to two years and is up for election in 2022. The Nomination Committee proposes that theCorporate Assembly re-electsPieter Cornelis Knook as board member in the Board of Directors ofTelenor ASA for a period of up to two years. Board memberAstrid Simonsen Joos was first elected by theCorporate Assembly on11 May 2020 for a period of up to two years and is up for election in 2022. The Nomination Committee proposes that theCorporate Assembly re-electsAstrid Simonsen Joos as board member in the Board of Directors ofTelenor ASA for a period of up to two years. Furthermore, the Nomination Committee proposes for theCorporate Assembly to elect one new member of the Board of Directors ofTelenor ASA . The Nomination Committee proposes thatNina Bjørnstad is elected as member of the Board of Directors for a period of up to two years. Bjørnstad is nominated to replaceJacob Aqraou .Jacob Aqraou has decided to resign from his position in the Board ofTelenor ASA when his period ends. The Board of Directors ofTelenor ASA shall according to the Articles of Association Section 5 consist of a minimum of five and a maximum of thirteen members. Following this proposal, the Board of Directors will have ten members, including the three employee representatives. Pursuant toTelenor ASA's Articles of Association section 9,Telenor ASA shall have a Nomination Committee.The Nomination Committee of Telenor ASA is constituted byBjørn Erik Næss (Chair of the Nomination Committee),Jan Tore Føsund, Lars Tronsgaard and Heidi Algarheim. The Nomination Committee has over the period leading up to the election of the Board of Directors ofTelenor ASA evaluated the composition of the Board of Directors. The Nomination Committee has in its work with the nomination of candidates considered the interests of the company and the shareholders in general.Telenor is one ofNorway's leading companies and a significant international telecom provider, with a substantial part of its value linked to activities outside ofNorway in rapidly changing and emerging markets. The Nomination Committee has considered the total competency need of the Board of Directors from a sectoral, functional and governance perspective related to the company's position and strategy going forward. The Nomination Committee has mapped and considered skills benchmark and criteria for the composition of the Board of Directors. The Committee has in 2021 conducted a more extensive mapping of how the Board works and its competence and experience. In this the Committee has been supported by an external advisor which provided the Committee with a comprehensive report in September last year. The mapping includes relevant competence, diversity in expertise and background as a result of different work experience, education, gender, age, geographical affiliation and cultural background. Board members personal qualifications was also part of the mapping process. The Nomination Committee considers that Telenor Board of Directors functions well. Information about the candidates:Pieter Cornelis Knook Board member Term of office: Elected11 May 2020 for a period of up to two years. Committee: Member of theTransformation & Innovation Committee and member of theRisk and Audit Committee . Shares inTelenor ASA : 0 as of31 December 2021 Year of birth 1958, Dutch citizen and resident inLondon, United Kingdom . Experience:Pieter Knook has extensive international business experience in sales, marketing and product development from multinational technology companies, including several management positions in Microsoft from 1990 to 2008. Knook served as President for Microsoft Asia from 1997 to 2001 and SVP forMobile Communications from 2001 to 2008. Knook was Internet Services Director with Vodafone from 2008 to 2010 and was Visiting Professor of Innovation at theUniversity of Cambridge . Other directorships: Chair of the Board of Directors of Broad Horizon a PE backed IT services company that operates inNW Europe (Amsterdam, NL ), Chair of the Board of Directors of LINX - TheLondon Internet Exchange (London, UK ), Chair of the Board of Directors of Altitude Angel (Reading, UK ). Member of the Board of Directors of Alpha 10X (Paris, France ), Member of the Board of Directors ofBio-Key (New Jersey, USA ). Previous directorships include Member of the Board of Directors ofTDC from 2013 -May 2018 . Education: Knook holds an MA in Electrical Sciences from theUniversity of Cambridge . Nominated for re-election Knook attended 14 of 14 Board of Directors meetings in 2021. In 2022, until the date of this recommendation, he attended three out of three ordinary Board of Directors meetings and one out of two extraordinary Board of Directors meetings. Average attendance at the ordinary Board of Directors meetings over this period was for Knook 100 per cent. The average attendance for the Board members in this period was 95 per cent.Pieter Knook is a member of theTransformation and Innovation Committee . In 2021 the committee held five meetings with an attendance rate of 100 per cent. He is also a member of theRisk and Audit Committee , and in 2021 the committee held nine meetings with an attendance rate of 100 per cent.Astrid Simonsen Joos Board member Term of office: Elected11 May 2020 for a period of up to two years. Committee: Member of the People andGovernance Committee andSustainability and Compliance Committee . Shares inTelenor ASA : 0 as of31 December 2021 Year of birth 1973, Norwegian citizen and resident inDenmark . Experience:Simonsen Joos will start as Group CEO inGlamox on1 August 2022 . She has significant experience within digital, sales/marketing, business development and people management from her 20 years within the software industry and digital business development.Simonsen Joos served as GlobalChief Digital Officer and Head of Transformation of Signify (formerly known asPhilips Lighting ) in 2019, after serving five years as CEO of Signify in the Nordics. She has held numerous management positions at Microsoft and also served as CEO for Creuna Denmark, a digital agency. Other directorships: Member of the Board of Directors of Nordea Invest (Copenhagen, Denmark ). Former Board Member INWIDO (OMX Stockholm) and DI Digital. Education:Simonsen Joos holds anM.Sc in Business and Economics fromBI Norwegian Business School , and Master of Management Program focusing on eMarketing fromBI Norwegian Business School . Nominated for re-electionSimonsen Joos attended 14 of 14 Board of Directors meetings in 2021. In 2022 until the date of this recommendation, she attended three out of three ordinary Board of Directors meetings and one out of two extraordinary Board of Directors meetings. Average attendance at the Board of Directors meetings forSimonsen Joos was 100 per cent. The average attendance for the Board members in this period was 95 per cent.Simonsen Joos is member of the People andGovernance Committee and the committee held six meetings in 2021. Average with attendance rate was 100 per cent. She is also a member of theSustainability and Compliance Committee and the committee held five meetings in 2021 with an attendance rate of 100 per cent.Nina Bjørnstad Shares inTelenor ASA : 0 as of31 December 2021 Year of birth 1977, Residence: Born inCalifornia . Dual citizen American and Norwegian, resident in Lillehammer Norway since 2017. Experience: Bjørnstad is currently the Managing Partner of a technology focused, private capital investment fund, based inEurope . She has over 20 years' experience working for the pioneers in technology. This includes significant experience from digital transformation and technology development. Bjørnstad was employed by Google in 2014 as the Country Manager for Google Cloud for theUK &Ireland where she led Digital Transformation in companies of all sizes. She went on to be part of the founding team, setting upGoogle Cloud Consulting forNorthern Europe . She has previously worked at Microsoft for 10 years across a variety of roles, from Finance to Corporate Strategy, M&A, Marketing and General Management. Her career started in the US withDell and Amazon, building web-based businesses, architecting for rapid technical expansion and providing disruptive market entry. Other directorships:Scandinavian Airlines (SAS AB ), Starship, an autonomous driving robotics delivery company andPwC UK Advisory Board Director. Education: Bjørnstad holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Finance and Minor in Economics fromUniversity of Colorado and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) fromUniversity of Washington Seattle, WA. Contact:Bjørn Erik Næss , Chair of the Corporate assembly and Chair of the Nomination committee ofTelenor ASA , bjorn-erik.naess@telenor.com Investor relations: Øystein Myrvold +47 99230460
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