SoftOx Solutions AS strengthened its leadership team in SoftOx Defense Solutions AS (SDS), a subsidiary of SoftOx, with the appointment of Jørgen Berggrav as Senior Advisor and Johan Christian Harstad as the Project Director. The appointments will take effect, as of September 1, 2022. In addition, Chief Executive Officer of SoftOx Solutions AS, Geir Almås, will act as interim CEO of SDS, succeeding Rune Jomaas, until a suitable successor has been identified.

Jørgen Berggrav graduated from the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (Sjøkrigsskolen) and has served in the submarine force as a ship's officer, ship's commander and operations and training officer. Berggrav has held many diverse roles in the Armed Forces including as Director General in the Ministry of Defence, representative of Europe to the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and representative of the Chief of Defence at NATO's operational command, SHAPE, commander of the Landsdelskommando Nord-Norge, and staff training at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College (die Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr) in Germany, the Armed Forces Academy, and Defence Attaché in Finland. In addition, Berggrav has been Chief Principal for HM the King and was appointed rear admiral in 2003.

Following his retirement, Berggrav was the Secretary General of the Norwegian Reserve Officers' Federation for nearly eight years. Johan Christian Harstad is a former submarine commander, and his last position was as deputy leader in the Norwegian Special Operation Forces with the rank of Commodore. Harstad has international experience with the United States Special Operations Command in experimentation and restructuring of military capabilities.

He also studied security policy and foreign relations at the US Naval War College. Harstad has served in the Norwegian Armed Forces' central staff in Oslo and worked for four years in the Ministry of Defence. Berggrav and Harstad's focus will be to further develop the SoftOx applications to strengthen the military and civilian preparedness against future epidemics, chemical and biological warfare, complex wound infections and challenging conditions in the respiratory tract.