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Executive management

Jaan Ivar Semlitsch

Chief executive officer

Jaan Ivar Semlitsch (born 1971) joined the group as chief executive officer (CEO) in February 2023.

Before joining Komplett Group, Semlitsch held the position of CEO at Orkla ASA from August 2019 to April 2022. Prior to his role at Orkla ASA, he operated his own consulting firm, Scilla AS. Earlier in his career, he served as the CEO of Elkjøp Nordic from 2013 to 2019. During this period, he was also the managing director of Dixons Carphone International Plc, managing all operations outside the UK.

Semlitsch also has extensive experience in grocery and consumer goods as the CEO of REMA Industrier AS and from various companies in Scandinavia and the UK during his six years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Semlitsch holds a master in business economics (Siviløkonom) from
the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Northwestern University.

Semlitsch and related parties held 180 000 shares and 500 000 options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Thomas Røkke

Chief financial officer

Thomas Røkke (born 1968) joined the group as chief financial officer (CFO) on 1 March 2023.

Since December 2018, Thomas Røkke held the position of group CFO of Saferoad Holding AS based in Oslo, Norway. He has previously held similar senior positions at FristadsKansas Group AB (formerly Kwintet), headquartered in Sweden, and the Danish diversified food business Løgismose Meyers A/S.

Røkke has broad international experience in both operational
management positions and strategy consulting.

He holds a master's degree in addition to a PhD in finance and accounting from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Røkke and related parties held no shares and 361 049 options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Andreas Westgaard

Commercial director

Andreas Westgaard (born 1974) joined the group as commercial director (CCO) in August 2023.

Before joining Komplett Group, Westgaard held various managerial positions at Elkjøp Nordic AS. His most recent role was as CCO, a position he undertook from 2019 after having served as category director consumer electronics and as buying director.

Westgaard also holds substantial industry expertise through his past
engagements as country manager and European account manager at LG Electronics Inc. and as sales manager Nordic at Sony Corp.

Westgaard is educated at the Officers’ Training School at the Norwegian Army and holds management training from BI Norwegian Business School.

Westgaard and related parties held 58 147 shares and 415 782 options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Josefin Dalum

Managing director NetOnNet

Josefin Dalum (born 1983) joined the group in August 2022 as CFO for
NetOnNet AB and was appointed managing director in December 2023.

Prior to NetOnNet, Dalum held positions in Moment Group AB (Publ.)
for ten years (2012-2021) as CFO and acting CEO, responsible for strategy, business operations, financial reporting and investment presentations. During Dalum’s time at Moment Group, the company issued corporate bonds, was listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, incorporated acquisitions and underwent several reorganisations.

Before joining NetOnNet, she acted as a consultant at Polestar Automotive AB, responsible for financial controlling team during the listing process at Nasdaq New York. Dalum has four years of experience as an auditor at EY.

She holds a master of business economics (Siviløkonom) from Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), with a  specialisation in business economics and accounting.

Dalum and related parties held no shares or options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Erlend Stefansson

Managing director Komplett Services

Erlend Stefansson (born 1968) joined the group in June 2022 as CEO for Ironstone and was appointed managing director Komplett Services AS in May 2023.

Prior to Komplett Group, Stefansson held the position of managing director of Arcus AS' spirits division for nine years, where he was responsible for product development, marketing and sales of the group's spirit brands globally, as well as being responsible for production for two years at Arcus’ facilities at Gjelleråsen, Norway. Erlend held the position of group director sales in Ringnes AS (part of Carlsberg Group) for four years.

He was the group CEO of Spits ASA from 2006 to 2008, and has held several senior management positions in sales, retail development, marketing and communication. He has three years of experience as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

He holds a master of business economics (Siviløkonom) from Norwegian School of Management/Handleshøyskolen BI, with a specialisation in finance.

Stefansson and related parties held 50 847 shares and 254 192 options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Trygve Hillesland

Managing director Webhallen

Trygve Hillesland (born 1980) joined Komplett Group in August 2023 as country manager for NetOnNet Norway and was appointed managing director of Webhallen Sverige AB in January 2024.

Hillesland has more than 20 years experience from the electronics retail industry.

Prior to joining NetOnNet, he was managing director Elkjøp Norway AS. Since joining Elkjøp Group in 2002, he has also served as manging director Gigantti Oy AB, property director Elkjøp Nordic, customer care center director Elkjøp Nordic, project director Elkjøp Nordic, and business support director Electro World Czech Republic.

Hillesland and related parties held no shares or options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

 

Kristin Hodal Torgersen

Chief HR officer

Kristin Hødal Torgersen (born 1961) joined Komplett Group in 2021 as
interim HR director, and has held the position as chief HR officer since March 2022.

Prior to this, Torgersen held various management positions with Danske Bank and the position as CEO at Huseby Kjøkken and CEO at Neas ASA.

She has experience from Vital Eiendom AS, and from various positions at Mars and as head of sales at Cinet AS.

Kristin Hødal Torgersen holds a master of science in economics and
business administration from Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

Torgersen and related parties held 11 835 shares and 189 458 options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Markus Solvik

Chief strategy officer

Markus Solvik (born 1986) joined the group as an executive advisor in
August 2022 and was appointed chief strategy officer in January 2023.

Prior to joining Komplett Group, he held various executive management roles at Løvenskiold Handel AS, a leading Norwegian home improvement retailer and wholesaler.

Solvik has extensive experience from retail and consumer goods in the Nordics from seven years as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group.

Solvik holds an MSc in financial economics (Siviløkonom) from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Cornell University.

Solvik and related parties held no shares and 193 864 options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Board of directors

Jo Olav Lunder

Chair since 2022, not independent

Jo Olav Lunder (born 1961) has more than 25 years of broad directorial and executive experience from multiple private and public companies within telecommunications, IT services, business solutions
and e-commerce.

Lunder has held positions such as COO of Telenor Mobile AS, CEO of Ementor ASA, President of Ferd Capital, CEO of Vimpelcom Ltd and
CEO of John Fredriksen Group.

He currently holds board positions in various companies, including but not limited to, chair of Canica Holding AG, Axxelerator Capital AS, Element Logic Holding AS, Oleter Group AB, Deepocean Group Holding AS, and is director of Stenshagen Invest AS. He also served as a board
director of Komplett ASA from 2018 until March 2022.

Lunder has an MBA from Henley Business School, and a bachelor’s degree from Oslo Business School.

Lunder attended 15 of 15 board meetings in 2023.

Jo Olav Lunder is not independent of the company’s main shareholder, Canica Invest AS.

Lunder and related parties held 391 777 shares in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Ingvild Næss

Director since 2023, independent

Ingvild Næss (born 1979) is Chief Information Officer at Schibsted
ASA and has been the Head of Schibsted Enterprise Technology AB since 2022/23.

Since 2016, Næss has also worked as chief privacy officer and
data trends officer as of 2019 in Schibsted. Before this, she was a lawyer at Advokatfirmaet Thommesen from 2006 to 2015, where she spent the last few years within the Department of Technology and Data Protection.

Næss graduated as cand. jur. from the University of Oslo in 2005.
She has taken courses in disruptive innovation from Harvard Business
School and the management program Stanford Executive Program (SEP) at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ingvild Næss is a board member of Neddy AS and heads the data group in the Media Companies National Association. Næss has also served as deputy chairman of the Norwegian Privacy Commission appointed by the government.

Næss attended nine of nine board meetings in 2023.

Næss and related parties held no shares in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Susanne Ehnbåge

Director since 2023, independent

Susanne Ehnbåge (born 1979) has been the CEO of Stockmann Group since 2023 and Lindex AB since 2018.

From 2003 to 2018, she was employed at SIBA AB/NetOnNet/NetOnNet Group AB, whereby she was the CEO of SIBA and later on the CEO of NetOnNet Group between 2014-2018.

She has a master's degree in industrial and financial economics from the School of Economics and Commercial Law in Gothenburg and additional board work education from Ahrens.

Susanne Ehnbåge is also a board member of the Ahlsell Group. Previously, she has sat on the boards of Resurs Bank, HiQ International and Mio AB.

Ehnbåge attended nine of nine board meetings in 2023.

Ehnbåge and related parties held no shares in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Jan Ole Stangeland

Director since 2023, not independent

Jan Ole Stangeland (born 1967) has been the CEO of Canica AS since 2022 and was the CFO of the company since 2001.

Stangeland has a business administration degree from BI Business School. Jan Ole is a board member of Jernia AS and has experience from several board positions, both listed and other companies associated with the Canica Group.

Stangeland attended nine of nine board meetings in 2023.

Stangeland is not independent of the company's main shareholder, Canica Invest AS.

Stangeland owns 76 296 shares in Komplett ASA through Stangeland
Invest AS (owned 50/50 with related parties) at 1 March 2024.

Fabian Bengtsson

Director since 2022, not independent

Fabian Bengtsson (born 1972) has extensive experience in retail and
e-commerce as the former CEO of SIBA AB from 2001 to 2015 and with several positions and directorships within the SIBA Invest group from 1987.

He is the current chair of SIBA Invest AB and CEO of SIBA Fastigheter
AB, a real estate company. He is also member of the board of Axfood AB and chair of the Swedish Federation of Business Owners (Företagarna AB). Bengtsson has served as the former chair of NetOnNet from 2012 to 2015 and as a director of the board at NetOnNet, prior to the merger with Komplett.

He holds a bachelor of science in business and economics from
Lund University, Sweden.

Bengtsson attended 15 of 15 board meetings in 2023.

Fabian Bengtsson is not independent of the company’s large shareholder SIBA Invest AB.

Bengtsson and related parties indirectly held 55 581 404 shares in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024 through his ownership of approximately one third of the votes and shares in SIBA Invest.

Anna Fernmo

Worker director since 2023, employee

Anna Fernmo (born 1988) is an ecommerce sales specialist at NetOnNet, where she has been employed since 2021. Before NetOnNet, Fernmo founded and owned her own company.

Fernmo has a bachelor’s degree in behavioural science specialising in
sociology from Linköping University. She also has a higher vocational education in web communication and digital copywriting. She was also elected president of the union representatives at NetOnNet in the period 2022-2024.

Fernmo attended nine of nine board meetings in 2023.

Fernmo and related parties held no shares and held no options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Anders Odden

Worker director since 2019, employee

Anders Odden (born 1978) joined the group in 2007 as Nordic product manager for PC components. Odden currently holds the position as a sales director in Komplett Services, and he has also worked there as a sales manager.

Odden has experience as a sales manager and key account manager
in various companies within the electronics industry.

Odden holds a bachelor of science in management from the Norwegian Business School (BI).

Odden attended 15 of 15 board meetings in 2023.

Odden and related parties held 8 333 shares and 11 411 options in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Roland Vejdemo

Observer since 2022, not independent

Roland Vejdemo (born 1957) has served as the chair of NetOnNet since 2015, as well as the chair of the remuneration committee. Vejdemo has extensive experience from the IT industry, as the former CEO of Compaq Computer AB and Hewlett Packard AB from 2001 to 2010.

Vejdemo holds a master’s degree in business and economics from Stockholm University.

Vejdemo attended nine of ten board meetings in 2023.

Roland Vejdemo is not independent of the company’s second largest shareholder, SIBA Invest AB.

Vejdemo and related parties held no shares in Komplett ASA at 1 March 2024.

Nomination committee

Sverre Kjær, Chair
Nina Camilla Hagen Sørli, member
Martin Bengtsson, member