New Board members elected

 

Grete Faremo

 

(May 18, 2006) Hydro's Corporate Assembly on Thursday elected Lena Olving (49), chartered engineer and member of the corporate management of Volvo Personvagnar, and Grete Faremo (50), lawyer and director of legal affairs and public relations in Microsoft, region Western Europe, as new members of Hydro's Board of Directors.

Jan Reinås, Elisabeth Grieg, Håkan Mogren and Kurt Anker Nielsen were re-elected to the Board.

Lena Olving

 

Jan Reinås was re-elected chairperson and Elisabeth Grieg deputy chairperson in succession to Borger Lenth, who is stepping down on age-limitation grounds after 16 years on the Board, the past five as deputy chairperson. Ingvild Myhre is leaving Hydro’s Board after five years as member.

The Corporate Assembly has re-elected Svein Steen Thomassen and Siri Teigum as chairperson and deputy chairperson respectively.

The Corporate Assembly has set new rates of remuneration for the Board chairperson, deputy chairperson and members: NOK 480,000, 300,000 and 245,000 respectively.

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