Management

Trond Christensen has held the position as CEO since October 2023. He has served as CFO since November 2019. Christensen served as interim CEO in the period of July 2022-October 2022. Christensen has several years’ experience as a state authorized public accountant. Christensen also has more than 10 years of experience as CFO/CEO and has worked for companies such as Jotun, Komplett, Brubakken and Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner. Since 2014, he has worked with consulting and management for hire.

Christensen is a Siviløkonom (four-year program in economics and business administration) from Norwegian Business School BI, and holds a Master’s in Accounting from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Norway. Christensen is a Norwegian citizen based in Trondheim and Oslo, Norway. Christensen owns indirectly through T Christensen AS 45,000 shares in Q-Free ASA. Christensen/T Christensen AS has irrevocably accepted  the mandatory offer published October 26 2023 to sell the shares to Juniper Holdco AS.

Fredrik Nordh joined Q-Free as Senior Vice President Europe in September 2017. Nordh has held several leading positions within Tomra Group (2003-2017), most recently the position as SVP Head of Nordic Collection Solutions. Nordh has also been Nordic Business Controller at LG Electronics and held several finance, IT, and logistics positions at S.C. Johnson.

A native Swede, Nordh received a Master of Science degree in Business and Economics from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Nordh is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and owns 40,000 shares and holds 500,000 share options in Q-Free ASA. Nordh has irrevocably accepted  the mandatory offer published October 26 2023 to sell the shares to Juniper Holdco AS.

Daniel Skiffington has held the position as EVP Traffic Management since October 2022.

Skiffington has been a member of the senior traffic management team since 2019, most recently serving as EVP of Technology responsible for the development and dissemination of technology for customers, vendors, and clients to improve and increase business. He started with Open Roads Consulting in 2003, which was subsequently acquired by Q-Free to forge the cornerstone of the company’s interurban traffic offering in 2014.

With nearly 20 years’ experience in traffic management technology, Skiffington has extensive industry expertise spanning software development, product management, as well as project and program management.

Skiffington holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Virginia Tech (US). Skiffington is an American citizen and resides in Chesapeake, Virginia. Skiffington holds 500,000 share options in Q-Free ASA.

Hege Sand joined Q-Free as Executive Vice President in March 2023. Sand has extensive international experience and 20 years within Strategic HR. Sand comes from the Norwegian state enterprise Enova SF which works for Norway’s transition to a low-emission society. Sand has further held several leading positions within companies like Telenor, Skanska, IKEA, emgs and SINTEF. Sand holds a degree in Strategic HRM from University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and Human Resources (Personal- og arbeidslivsprogrammet) from University of Lund in Sweden.

Sand is a Norwegian citizen based in Trondheim, Norway. Sand holds 350,000 share options in Q-Free ASA.