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Gunnar joined Vow ASA as Chief Executive Officer in May 2025, bringing with him more than two decades of leadership experience from the maritime and industrial sectors.

Prior to joining Vow, he held several senior roles within the Kongsberg Group, where he worked since 2002. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President, Automation & Control at Kongsberg Maritime. His previous roles also include Executive Vice President, Technology at Kongsberg Maritime and Senior Vice President, Software and Services at Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies and Kongsberg Digital.

Cecilie brings extensive financial leadership experience from a range of industries. She joined Vow from Spir Group ASA, where she served as Group CFO & IR and was instrumental in advancing key strategic initiatives.

Prior to this, she spent seven years as CFO & IR at Self Storage Group ASA, where she was responsible for financial operations and corporate development. Earlier in her career, she held senior finance roles at Color Line AS and Posten Norge. Ms. Hekneby holds a degree as Siviløkonom from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Per has a more than 15 years research and development experience of thermal conversion process including combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, and torrefaction.

In the CTO role he oversees, coordinates, and approves the R&D activities in all Vow group of companies. Per holds a MSc in mechanical engineering and a PhD in energy engineering and has previously worked as researcher, senior business developer and research manager. He joined the Vow group in August 2021.

As Chief of staff, Malena is responsible for all HR, culture, and marketing related activities in the Vow Group. An additional focus of the role is to oversee group-wide strategic business initiatives from development to successful implementation.

Malena has a Master of Arts in Management and Entrepreneurship from Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. As Chief of staff, Malena is supporting the executive management by helping to maximize the efficiency of the EMB and the group management team. The main focus of the role is to oversee group-wide strategic business initiatives from development to successful implementation.

Ivar has extensive project management experience from the oil and gas, maritime and industrial sectors.

He spent 11 years at National Oilwell Varco in key project management roles before joining Vow in 2017. At Vow, he has served as VP Project Operations, leading a wide range of projects across the company’s maritime portfolio and, more recently, within the industrial segment.

Through these roles, he has gained solid experience in complex project execution, operational leadership and customer delivery across diverse markets. In 2025, he was appointed Interim COO, with responsibility for project execution and operational activities.