OSLO, NORWAY: Benjamin Kristoffer Golding has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Arendals Fossekompani.
“We are very happy to welcome Golding to Arendals Fossekompani. With nice insights into technology and a solid all-round industrial and monetary background, Golding is well equipped to take Arendals Fossekompani to the subsequent level,” says Trond Westlie, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arendals Fossekompani.
Benjamin Golding (born 1980) is currently Group Executive Vice President of Products and Innovation on the Norwegian financial institution DNB. He brings expertise from industrial and industrial funding companies, such as Orkla, Aker Solutions and Akastor, in additions to years at McKinsey. Golding serves as chairman of the board of Bits AS and as a board member of Vipps AS and Bankid Bankaxept AS. He holds a master’s diploma in Technology inside Cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Partly raised in Arendal, Golding has spent most of his life in Trondheim and Oslo. In 2018 he returned to his hometown along with his spouse and two children.
“I am thrilled to join Arendals Fossekompani. Being an Arendal native, it’s an organization I have adopted with pride and admiration. I am humbled by the chance to lead the group and its portfolio companies in a brand new phase, along with an skilled and extremely competent team,” says Golding.
Benjamin Golding will assume his place at Arendals Fossekompani as quickly as his job in DNB involves an finish however no later than 1 August 2023.
Arendals Fossekompani (AFK) is a long-term funding firm that owns energy- and technology-related companies which allow the transition to energy safety and subsequent generation industrial technologies. AFK operates globally in a number of future-oriented industries, collectively with 3D printing, wi-fi charging, algo trading, satellite tv for pc services, battery- and photo voltaic technology, software, and digitization. Established in 1896, AFK has been a proud producer of renewable hydro energy for greater than 100 years. The firm is headquartered in Arendal, Norway and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.