FREYR Battery announced the appointment to the senior management and Board of Directors, are as follows: Birger Steen, currently Board Chair of Nordic Semiconductor ASA and Pagero AB, has been appointed FREYR?s Chief Executive Officer effective as of August 21. Mr. Steen brings more than 30 years of technology sector senior leadership and Board of Director experience in roles at companies including Parallels Inc., Microsoft Corp., Schibsted ASA (OSE:) and McKinsey & Co. Prior to joining FREYR, Birger Steen was a Thematic Partner at Summa Equity.

He is currently Board Chair at Nordic Semiconductor ASA and Pagero Group AB (publ.), and serves on the boards of Nordea Bank Abp, where he chairs the Operations and Sustainability Committee, and Pragmatic Semiconductor LLC. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of Parallels Inc., WW Vice President of Distribution & SMB at Microsoft Corp, both in Seattle, VP & General Manager at Microsoft Russia and General Manager at Microsoft Norge AS (subsidiaries of Microsoft Corp.). Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Steen was Chief Executive Officer at Scandinavia Online AS (publ.), a VP at Schibsted ASA and a consultant at McKinsey & Co.

He holds an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as degrees from the Norwegian Defense School of Intelligence & Security and Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU).