Chair
Gisele Marchand (1958) was elected Chair of the Board in 2018 and has been a member of Gjensidige’s Board of Directors since 2010. She is Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Risk Committee.
Marchand holds an MBA from Copenhagen Business School.
Marchand is a board member and Chair of the Audit Committee in Norgesgruppen ASA and Chair of the Board of Norgesgruppen Finans Holding AS.
She is also member of the Board of Selvaag Bolig ASA, where she is a member of the Remuneration Committee. She is a board member of Eiendomsspar AS, Victoria Eiendom AS, Scatec Solar ASA and Chair of the Board of Boligbygg Oslo KF. She is a member of the Nomination committee of Entra Eiendom AS. She has also previously been a member of a number of other boards, including in Norske Skog ASA and Oslo Børs AS.
Marchand has previously been CEO of the law firm Haavind AS, Eksportfinans ASA, the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund, Bates Group and Executive Vice President at Den norske Bank, with responsibility for retail and commercial customers in Norway.
Marchand has considerable management experience from the finance industry, as well as good insurance competencies due to her serving at the board of Gjensidige for a number of years.
Gisele Marchand is independent of key employees, main business partners and the major shareholder.
Marchand is up for re-election to the Board in 2021.
The Board
The Board has 10 members, three of whom are employee representatives. Board members elected by the shareholders are elected for one year at a time by the Annual General Meeting, based on recommendations made by the nomination committee and in accordance with the Articles of Association's requirements to the composition of the board of directors related to expertise, gender and location. Employee representatives are elected for two years at a time by the employees.
The work of the Board follows a fixed annual plan and is conducted in accordance with established rules of procedure. The Board holds meetings regularly and they have agreed in advance on nine meetings each year. Additional meetings are held depending of the matters to be considered and the situation. These meetings may be held as telephone meetings.
The Board has established three working committees: a remuneration committee, an audit committee and a risk committee.
The Board has established instruction for the CEO, and it performs an annual self-evaluation.
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