Through the years Audun Freyr has been business/engineering consultant for number of private and public bodies in Iceland such as Norvik, Icelandic Alcohol/Tobacco, Reykjavik Energy and Kopavogur Community and has served at the board of companies in various businesses in Iceland and internationally. From 2013 till 2018 Audun Freyr was the CEO of Felagsbustadir, one of the largest housing companies of Iceland. From 2006 till 2009 Audun Freyr was VP of Norvik Timber Industries, a group of companies in timber related operations in Europe. Audun holds a master’s degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a master’s degree in business management from Stanford University.

Orri graduated in 1997 as an architect and urban planner from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. The same year he founded Zeppelin, his architectural studio taking on projects in all types and sizes; schools, offices, apartment buildings, hotels and industrial plants, etc. The studio has participated and has won several prices in architectural competitions. It also works on its own development projects and participates in projects with other parties. Orri is the author of several articles on urban planning that have been published in Icelandic.

A graduate from University of Iceland in computer science, he worked at Apple IMC in Iceland before finishing an MBA degree from IMD, Lausanne Switzerland. For several years, Jon held management positions at F Hoffman La Roche and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Switzerland. He is cofounder of Men&Mice (www.MenandMice.com) a developer of network infrastructure solutions for enterprises such as Microsoft, FedEx, ATT and Shell. In 1996 he co-founded InfoMentor, (www.infomentor.com) a software developer for the international education market. Jon holds a Swiss and Icelandic passport. His strengths lie in international business development, sales and marketing as well as innovation management.

Sinziana Dobrescu, a graduate of Amsterdam School of Business’ Master of International Finance, and of the University of Toronto, has helped built up Prime Capital’s infrastructure business in the last ten years, to reach almost 3 GW of renewable energy installed across Europe, with a focus on the Nordic countries. Prime Capital, an independent asset manager and financial services provider based in Frankfurt, employs a value-add strategy of optimising projects pre-construction, negotiating power purchase agreement, construction and procurement contracts and bringing in competitive financing. Sinziana contributes Prime’s long standing “commercialization” expertise to VETNIS Iceland, where Prime Capital is 35% shareholder through its Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund.

Árni Geir Pálsson, a University of Iceland graduate with an M.Sc. degree in international business from Copenhagen Business School, has extensive experience of business operations and has served on the boards of directors of various companies both in Iceland and abroad. He has worked in recent years as an independent business consultant. In 2014-2016 he was CEO of Icelandic Group, an international seafoods company operating eleven companies in eight countries, with around 1,600 employees. In 2006-2008 he was CEO of Median, a software company specializing in payment transaction services, and in 2005-2006 he was CEO of the entertainment company Lazytown. In 2000-2005 he served as head of business development at Icelandic Group (SH) and before that as head of development of the publishing company Frjáls Fjölmiðlun, owner of the advertising company Mátturinn og dýrðin, public relations manager at Samskip and securities broker at VÍB.

Stefania Bjarney Olafsdottir, CEO and Co-Founder of Avo, is a mathematician and philosopher, turned genetics researcher, turned data scientist, turned founder. She was the founding data scientist, Head of Data Science and Growth Lead at QuizUp, a mobile game with 100m users, where she built and led the data science division and culture – including pioneering company-wide ways to prioritize product innovation. She has since consulted companies in various industries with their product analytics culture. Today, she and her cofounder have built Avo to change the way teams ship product analytics code, so that they aren’t forced to throttle business growth by choosing between product delivery speed and reliable insights. Avo has been backed by world class investors such as Y Combinator, Heavybit and GGV Capital.

An active business developer and entrepreneur, Jon Helgi Gudmundsson managed the growth of BYKO to become a leading importing and distribution company of building materials in Iceland. As a major stakeholder and president of Norvik, he has been a key person in number of successful ventures and investments in Iceland and abroad. Jon Helgi is a member of the board at Bergs Timber, a listed company in Sweden, at Eyrir Invest, an Icelandic Investment company and at the subsidiary companies of Norvik. Jon Helgi studied economics at the University of Iceland and has taken on further coursework at University of Mannheim in Germany and State University of Penn in the United States.