Management and Key Employees
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Regin Jacobsen, Chief Executive Officer Mr. Jacobsen (born 1966) has been the CEO of Bakkafrost since 1989. Mr. Jacobsen is educated at Aarhus School of Business, Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and Accounting (HD-R). From 1982 to 1988, Mr. Jacobsen was accounting manager of the former P/f Bakkafrost, and from 1988 until 2006, he held the position of Managing Director of the former P/f Bakkafrost. |
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Teitur Samuelsen, Chief Financial Officer Mr. Samuelsen (born 1972) was appointed CFO of Bakkafrost in December 2009. He holds a BA in Business Economics and an MSc in Business Economics & Auditing from Copenhagen Business School. Mr. Samuelsen has previously worked for Dong Energy E&P A/S as licence controller, and he was CFO of Atlantic Petroleum from 2005 to 2009. |
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Leif av Reyni, Fresh Water Manager Leif av Reyni is Kandidat (BSc) in Aquaculture, Høgskolen i Sogndal, Norway (1999–2002) and MSc in Aquaculture, Stirling University, Scotland (2002–2003). From 2003–2004, he worked for Vestlax at two of their sea sites, in Vestmanna and Veðranes, farming salmon and trout. From 2004–2005, Mr. Leif av Reyni worked as project manager for the local Aquaculture Research Station in the Faroe Islands. Since 2005, he has been Production Manager at Vestlax and responsible for sea sites and hatcheries. Since 2006, he has been on the Board of the Faroese Aquaculture Research Station. |
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Jón Purkhús, Farming Manager |
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Kári E. Jacobsen, Manager, VAP production and processing Mr. Jacobsen (born 1963) has been Manager of VAP production and processing since 2008. He is educated at Statens Fagskole for Fiskeindustri Vardø (1982/1983). Kári Jacobsen was Production Manager for Tavan from 1984 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2008. Kári E. Jacobsen was Production Manager for Faroe Seafood from 1994 to 1998. |
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Andrias Petersen, Harvest Manager Mr. Andrias Petersen holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the technical university of Denmark (2001) and has since completed courses in general-, project- and quality management. From 2002–2008, he worked with the Faroese Food, Veterinary, and Environmental Agency in positions as official supervisor, quality manager and head of the department of fish health, where he obtained a good knowledge of the Faroese fish farming industry. Mr. Andrias Petersen has been Production Manager at Vestsalmon since 2008. |
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Frederik Hansen, Sales Manager Mr. Hansen (born 1973) has been Sales Manager of Bakkafrost since 2007. He was educated at Føroya Sjómannaskúla as Captain in 1997. From 1997–2000, he was a sailor as a navigator and Captain. From 2000 to 2006, he was department leader of Faroe Ship’s operations in various places, both in Faroes and abroad. From 2006, he was Sales Manager of Faroe Ship. |
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Anna Johansen, Quality Manager, farming and harvest Anna Johansen (born 1974) holds a cand.scient in biology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2002) and has since completed courses in project management, basic law and communication. From 2003-2007 she worked with the Faroese Food, Veterinary and Environmental Agency as an environmental supervisor and a project manager. Since 2007 Anna Johansen has been quality manager for P/f Vestlax and P/f Vestsalmon. |
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Sunrid Nielsen, Quality Manager, production and processing. |
