Jon Erik Reinhardsen
Chair of the Board and chair of the Compensation and Executive Development Committee.
Term of office: Chair of the Board of Equinor ASA since 1 September 2017 and chair of the Compensation and Executive Development Committee.
Year of birth: 1956
Independent: Yes
Other directorships: Member of the Board of Directors of Oceaneering International, Inc., Telenor ASA and Awilhelmsen AS.
Number of shares in Equinor ASA: 4,584 (as of December 31, 2019)
Loans from Equinor ASA: None
Experience: Reinhardsen was the Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) from 2008 – August 2017. PGS delivers global geophysical- and reservoir services. The company has its headquarters in Oslo and offices in 17 countries with approximately 1,800 employees. In the period 2005 – 2008 Reinhardsen was President Growth, Primary Products in the international aluminium company Alcoa Inc. with headquarters in the US, and he was in this period based in New York.
From 1983 to 2005, Reinhardsen held various positions in the Aker Kværner group, including Group Executive Vice President of Aker Kværner ASA, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Aker Kværner Oil & Gas AS in Houston and Executive Vice President in Aker Maritime ASA.
Education: Reinhardsen has a Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Geophysics from the University of Bergen. He has also attended the International Executive Program at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Family relations: No family relations to other members of the Board, members of the Corporate Executive Committee or the Corporate Assembly.
Other matters: Reinhardsen is a Norwegian citizen, and resident in Norway.