Bente Rathe
Deputy chairperson, director since 2007
Bente Rathe (1954), Trondheim, has been deputy chairperson since October 2009. She is an independent businesswoman.
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She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Denver. Rathe started her career with E.A.Smith A/S of Trondheim, where she advanced to become deputy chief executive officer and director of finance. During the period from 1989 to 2002 she was part of of the corporate management of Forenede Forsikring – the Gjensidige group and Gjensidige NOR, most recently as deputy CEO. She has held a number of board appointments in Norwegian industrial and financial enterprises, among them chair of the board of Petoro and member of the boards of Veritas and Statoil. She is currently a board member of Powel AS, Choice Hotel Scandinavia AS, Home Invest, and Svenska Handelsbanken AB, Innovasjon Norge and chair for Ecohz AS and Cenium AS. She is member of Etikkrådet for Statens pensjonsfond utland.
