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Tom Einar Jensen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Tom is Co-Founder and Partner at EDGE, a global advisory, investment and project development firm aiming to catalyze responsible solutions in the sustainability space. Previously, he held management positions at SYSTEMIQ, Joule Unlimited and Agrinos. Before that, he held various management positions in finance, strategy and business development at Norsk Hydro.

Jan Arve Haugan, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Jan Arve brings extensive international industry experience to the FREYR leadership team. His career includes two years as CEO of Aker Energy AS and eight years as CEO of Kvaerner ASA, an oil service company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Jan Arve has also held a number of leading positions over the course of 20 years at Norsk Hydro, including the role of CEO of Qatalum, one of the world’s largest primary aluminum plants built in one phase and located in Qatar. Jan Arve is currently engaged as an industry advisor to the CEO of Aker Horizons AS.

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Tove Nilsen Ljungquist, Executive Vice President Operations

She was previously Executive Vice President of the Moreld Group and before that the CEO of Agility Group / Agility Subsea Fabrication. Moreld and the Agility companies are all owned by the Norwegian PE company HitecVision. Ljungquist has overseen the restructuring of several Moreld Group companies and has previous experience from various management positions in the global industrial companies Hydro and Elkem.

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Einar Kilde, Executive Vice President Projects

Einar Kilde has more than 30 years of experience from leading large-scale development projects within the energy and transport sectors. Previously, he was EVP and development director at Bane NOR, Norway’s state-owned railway company. Before that, he held various management positions and technical roles at Sarawak Energy Berhad, REC, Statoil (now Equinor) and Norsk Hydro.

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Gery Bonduelle, Executive Vice President Sales

Bonduelle comes from a VP Sales for EMEA and APAC position at Enersys, which identifies itself as a global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications, where he has worked for 25 years. Gery has extensive engineering, product development and operational experience, which he combines with a commercial mindset to develop successful customer relations. He is a French citizen and has lived and worked in France, Mexico, US and Switzerland.

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Steffen Føreid, Chief Finance Officer

Before joining FREYR, Steffen Føreid was ten years with Höegh LNG, serving first as CFO of Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd (OSE:HLNG) and then as CEO/CFO of Höegh LNG Partners LP (NYSE:HMLP). Prior to that, he served as CFO of Grenland Group and held various management positions at the restructuring of Kværner and Aker Kværner. He has further worked within corporate lending and M&A at JPMorganChase.

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Hege Marie Norheim, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, ESG & Communications

Hege joins FREYR as EVP HR, Sustainability and Communications effective no later than April 2021. Previous experience includes 13 years with the Fortune Global 500 companies Norsk Hydro and Equinor, serving as Chief Sustainability Officer, as Head of Communications and Public Affairs and in various business development roles. Prior to that, she served as Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office in Norway as well as State Secretary to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Finance in 2000-2001. Hege joins FREYR from Spencer Stuart Executive Search and Advisory where she for the past five years has supported global clients in developing their leadership teams.

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Ryuta Kawaguchi, Chief Technology Officer

Ryuta Kawaguchi has over 15 years experience of battery engineering. Before joining FREYR, Kawaguchi was solution-owner at Dyson EV Battery. He has also held various senior manager roles at Nissan responsible for battery technology development for Nissan LEAF and other EV models.

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Are Brautaset, Chief Legal Officer

Are is an experienced industry lawyer with 20 years’ practice as in-house counsel in the energy sector. He has provided legal and compliance advise to major industry projects both upstream and downstream, in Norway and abroad. Are has held management positions as Head of Legal and Compliance in Statoil Tanzania (based in Dar es Salaam), as Vice President Legal in Equinor and as Chief Legal Officer in Aker Energy.

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Christian M. Tate, VP Global Corporate Development

Prior to Freyr Battery, Christian served as the VP of Corporate Development for the Hitachi Global Digital Business Group. At Hitachi, Christian built the digital industrial platform by coalescing a common strategy and crafting a collection of transformative transactions. In addition to the digital industrial growth, Christian has spent 20+ years building and expanding companies in the Enterprise communications, infrastructure, software, and cloud markets. Christian earned a Masters’ in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Tilo Hauke, EVP Supply Chain Management

Tilo Hauke has more than 20 years of experience in the carbon and graphite industry, especially in materials and components for the renewable energy sector. Previously, he was Senior Vice President responsible for SGL Carbon's Fuel Cell Components Business. He held various management positions including supply chain management, plant management and head of the central research and development department. Tilo holds a PhD in solid state physics from University of Halle-Wittenberg and an MBA from University of Augsburg/Pittsburgh.

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