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Øyvind Eriksen is the President and CEO of Aker ASA and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cognite. He joined Norwegian law firm BAHR in 1990, where he became a partner in 1996 and a director and chairman in 2003. As a corporate attorney he has worked on strategic and operational development, mergers and acquisitions, and negotiations.

Eriksen has held several board positions in different industries, including shipping, finance, asset management, offshore drilling, fisheries, media, trade, and industry. Eriksen is currently chairman of the board in Aker BP ASA, Cognite AS, Aker Capital AS, Aker Holding AS, Aker Horizons AS, Aker Property Group AS, C4IR Ocean, and REV Ocean AS. He is a board member of several companies, including Aker BioMarine ASA, Aker Energy AS, Aker Carbon Capture AS, The Resource Group TRG AS, TRG Holding AS, and the Norwegian Cancer Society.

Eriksen is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution global network advisory board. He has been elected for the period 2021-2023. Eriksen has a law degree from the University of Oslo.

Kjell Inge Røkke, Aker ASA’s main owner, has been a driving force in the development of Aker since the 1990s. Røkke launched his business career with the purchase of a 69-foot trawler in the United States in 1982, and gradually built a leading worldwide fisheries business. In 1996, the Røkke-controlled company RGI purchased enough Aker shares to become Aker’s largest shareholder. RGI later merged with Aker.

Røkke is currently the Chairman of Aker ASA, The Resource Group TRG AS, and TRG Holding AS, and Director of several companies, including Aker BP ASA, Aker Solutions ASA, Ocean Yield ASA, Aker BioMarine ASA, Aker Property Group AS, Aker Energy AS, Aker Horizons AS, Aker Offshore Wind AS, Aize Holding, Aker Clean Hydrogen AS, Cognite AS, Seetee Topco AS, REV Ocean AS, and Rec Silicon ASA.

Matt Weigand is a partner at the American venture capital firm Accel, focusing on enterprise software, consumer internet, and security businesses. He represents Accel on the Board of Snyk and is actively involved with Accel’s investments in Cognite, Cornershop, G2Crowd, MessageBird, Xero, and GoFundMe. Prior to joining Accel, Weigand worked with William Blair’s technology investment banking group. He has a degree from Miami University of Ohio.

Jake Reynolds is a general partner at TCV, one of the world’s largest growth equity firms. He joined TCV in 1997 and has been a technology investor for over 30 years. During that time, his primary investment focus has been in enterprise software and SaaS. He has been actively involved with over 40 private company software investments in his career spanning both minority and majority transactioi

Prior to joining TCV, Jake was an Associate with General Atlantic Partners, a private equity firm focused on late-stage software and service businesses. Before joining General Atlantic, Jake was a member of the M&A group at Lazard Freres & Co.

He is currently on the board of directors of Avetta, Clio, Cognite, Kipu, OneSource Virtual, Rave Mobile Safety, Trulioo, and Watermark. Jake received an A.B. in Geography from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where he earned Beta Gamma Sigma honors.

Sofie Svartdal Berge is a Senior Director of Product Management, Lead Product Manager for End User Experience in Cognite. Throughout her time at Cognite, Sofie has embraced various roles, and is serving her third year as member of the Cognite Board of Directors.

With a master’s degree in petroleum engineering (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and extensive experience in digital transformation and industrial SaaS product management, Sofie has been fortunate to be part of Cognite’s incredible journey from well below 100 employees to 600 in just over 5 years.

Paulo Botura is the VP of Customer Success Account Management, leading the team responsible for managing Cognite's EMEA customers. 

Paulo started in Cognite in December  2018 as one of the early Customer Success team members and has been working on delivering business value by adopting Cognite technologies since then. Paulo is a Control and Automation Engineer with a Master's in Business Administration. Paulo worked for 10 years in the O&G industry before joining Cognite. While in Cognite, Paulo worked with customers spamming on all industry verticals and was exposed to an extensive breadth and depth of  Cognite's technology and products. 

Arthur Sund joined Cognite in 2018 and is currently Solution Architect Lead in Global Service Offerings. He is also leading the Cognite chapter of Tekna - The Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals.

Prior to joining Cognite, Sund gathered 10 years of experience building and managing solutions for data and analytics. He built an award-winning team and solutions as Head of Business Intelligence for the music streaming service TIDAL before moving on to Microsoft. His latest role before Cognite was as Chief Data Officer for a loyalty program Software-as-a-Service vendor.