Role: Independent1) board member since 2025. Current term expires 2027.
Born: 1960
Nationality: Norwegian
Number of shares in Norsk Hydro ASA: 40,000
Key experience:
Wahl is Chair of the privately owned investment company Strømstangen and Chair and one of the co-founders of the Voxtra Foundation. He co-founded the European Private Equity Company, IK Partners, previously Industri Kapital, in 1989 and was Deputy Chair and Partner for a period of 20 years. Prior to this, from 1987 to 1989, Wahl worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York and London within Corporate Finance.
Wahl has through his career gained in-depth experience within private equity, finance, business transformation, strategy, governance and people & compensation. Wahl has served on the board of directors in a number of European companies in various industries.
Current directorships:
- Chair Strømstangen
- Chair The Foundation Voxtra
- Deputy Chair of UPM-Kymmene Oyj, Finland (Board member 2012-2023)
- Board member of DNB Bank ASA, Norway (Deputy Chair 2019-2021)
- Board member of Civita AS, Norway
- Board member of the European Advisory board, Harvard Business School, USA
Education
- MBA, Harvard Business School, USA
- Bachelor Business Economics, University of San Diego, USA
- Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, o/ma III Bergen, Norway
1) See the Board of Directors' report in relation to the Norwegian Code of Practice for Corporate Governance in the latest annual report