Management and board
Jon Olav Ødegård
Chairman of the Board
Jon Olav Ødegård (b. 1973) has served as Chair of the Board since 2022. Ødegård is the CEO in Hofseth Biocare ASA which is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. He has held several executive positions in corporate banking and advisory services. Mr. Ødegård serves in several executive and board positions in biotech and the seafood industry. He holds a Msc in Economics from the Norwegian School of Management.
Jan Pettersson
Board Member
Jan Pettersson (b. 1957) has served on the board since 2015. He is a private investor who takes an active ownership role within several sectors, including the fish industry. Mr Petterson has studied law at the University of Stockholm.
David Huggins
Board Member
David Huggins holds the role of Head of Corporate Development for Hofseth Group since January 2023, and reports directly to Roger Hofseth, its Founder and CEO. David is involved in a broad range of duties across the business including M&A, corporate restructuring, corporate strategy, and financing. Also since January 2023 David holds the role of Head of E-Commerce for Hofseth Biocare and is responsible for its D2C and Amazon marketplace P&L.
As of April 2024 David was appointed as a Board Member of Hofseth North America, a wholly owned sales subsidiary with approximately $300m in revenues.
Prior to joining the Hofseth Group, David spent nine years at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. He began as a Graduate public equity analyst and by the end of his tenure had progressed to the role of Nutrition thematic fund manager, responsible for approximately $1.5bn in client assets.
Lena Aas Varming
Board Member
Lena Aas Varming is a board member with over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing. She is the CEO of Cosmed Beauty and an entrepreneur who has founded several companies. With her long-standing expertise in these fields, she brings good value to the organization.
Anita Lyseng
Board Member
Anita has more than 35 years of experience in the skin care industry. She started her skincare salon at 19 and was a teacher at Bjørgvin Upper Secondary School – Skincare line for five years.
Anita has worked in cosmetic skin care for four years and was employed at Wahwah Skin Trim Studio as a subject manager and as Chief of operations maintaining project manager for building the Wahwah Studios in Norway from 2004 to 2021. For the past three years, Anita has been employed as CEO at Skinteam Norway AS
Håvard Lindstrøm
CEO
Håvard Lindstrøm (b. 1969) has served as ABT’s CEO since 7th of July 2021. Before that he held the position as Head of Business Development since August 2020. Mr Lindstrøm has more than 24 years experience from sales and distribution, and holds a Master in marketing management degree from BI/NMH Norwegian Business School.