Egil Hogna

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Egil Olav Hogna
Born (1971-03-12) 12 March 1971 (age 50)
Oslo, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
EducationMaster of Science degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, in Trondheim. MBA from INSEAD. AMP from Harvard Business School
Alma mater Norwegian University of Science and Technology
INSEAD
Harvard Business School
OccupationCEO, Norconsult
Spouse(s)Ann Karin Belsvik Hogna

Egil Olav Hogna (born 12 March 1971) is a Norwegian engineer and business executive. On 1 September 2015 he was appointed new CEO of Sapa Group, the world's largest aluminium processor with NOK 53 billion in turnover and 22,400 employees in 40 countries. Following Hydro's acquisition of Sapa in 2017, Sapa was integrated as Hydro's largest business area. Hogna led the Extruded Solutions business area from 2017 to 2020. On 1 December 2020, he took over as CEO of Norconsult. Hogna has a master's degree in Industrial Economics from NTNU in Trondheim. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a management education from Harvard Business School.

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Career

McKinsey & Company

From 1994 to 1999 Hogna was a consultant for McKinsey & Company, where he worked in the company's Oslo office together with Hugo Maurstad, Fredrik Halvorsen and Reynir Indahl among others.

Hydro

In 1999 he became the Corporate Controller of Norsk Hydro Agri. [1] [2] He worked closely with the then CEO Thorleif Enger in the project which was later named Agri Turnaround, the major turnaround operation between 1999 and 2001 which was the reason why Yara was spun off from Hydro and listed as a separate company on the Oslo Stock Exchange in March 2004. Starting January 2002 to September 2003 he was the Vice President at Hydro Aluminium Metal Products responsible for Supply Chain & Performance Management. [3]

Yara

From 2003 to 2006, Hogna was head of investor relations in connection with the listing of Yara (2004–2006). Hogna has later stated that he believes this experience was part of the reason why he got the position as CEO in Sapa. In January 2007, Hogna moved to Paris to become Business Unit Manager for Yara International in Southern Europe with responsibility for approximately 400 employees and USD 800 million in revenues. In the summer of 2008, he moved up to become CFO of the company before he became Executive Vice President of Downstream at Yara International in 2009, a position he held until April 2015, when he became Senior Vice President of Yara International. From 2009 to 2012, he sat on the board of Qatar Fertilizer Company (Qafco). [4] [5] [6]

Sapa

On August 26, 2015, it was announced that Svein Tore Holsether left Sapa to become CEO of the Norwegian fertilizer company Yara International ASA, at the same time Hogna became the new CEO of Sapa. [7] [8] [9] In April 2016 Egil Hogna opened Sapa's first North American automotive-focused R&D lab facility in Detroit, Michigan handling automotive customers like Jaguar Land Rover and Tesla. [10] Hogna is concerned with a flat organizational structure and made a point of spending the first 100 days visiting as many production sites as possible and meeting employees, including in Suzhou, west of Shanghai, Tønder in Denmark, the east and west coasts of the US and an R&D centre in Finspång Sweden.

Hydro

On 2 October 2017, Hydro took over Sapa, and Sapa was integrated as Hydro's largest business area with 22,500 employees in 40 countries. In his role as Executive Vice President for Extruded Solutions, Hogna continued with a strong focus on technology and innovation, customer proximity and sustainability aimed at important segments such as the automotive industry and the construction sector. He was vital in the launch of the recycled product Hydro CIRCAL to the construction sector, and a driving force in introducing the low-carbon metal Hydro REDUXA to a number of segments in Europe. During his time at Hydro, he also led the business area through two major crises; the cyber attack in 2019 and the handling of COVID-19 in 2020.

Norconsult

On 1 December 2020, Hogna took up the position of CEO of Norconsult, Norway's largest and one of the leading interdisciplinary consulting companies in the Nordic region, focusing on community planning, engineering and architecture.

The Tesla of the Seas

In an article in Dagens Næringsliv in March 2016, Hogna wrote that Norway could create "The Tesla of the Seas" with reference to the project Urban Water Shuttle from Fjellstrand (shipyard) and the business cluster Maritime Clean Tech West, an emission-free fast ferry built in aluminium with support from Sapa and Hydro.

Sustainability

Hogna has stated that recycling and environmental technology is key area and that Sapa is behind a new range of transformable, aluminium-framed furniture developed for IKEA [11] to be launched in 2018. [12]

Following US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Hogna tweeted "Sometimes politicians are not able to make the right choices. All the more reason for business to step up." [13]

Like Virginia's Richard Branson and CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman, Egil Hogna, under the auspices of the Oslo-based Business for Peace Foundation, has made a promise to lead Sapa so that the UN's sustainability goals can be achieved. The business leaders who have signed so far represent companies with a total turnover of more than NOK 5,700 billion and more than 2.2 million employees.

Private life

Hogna loves to run and came in with the time 3:18:16 as number 487 in his age group in the New York Marathon in 2013.

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  1. ↑ "Oslo Børs: Egil Hogna appointed new Yara CFO". Newsweb Oslo Børs.
  2. ↑ "Turnaround achievement". Yara.com.
  3. ↑ "Bloomberg Executive Profile". Bloomberg.
  4. ↑ "- Børsen Ingen ledestjerne". Dagens Næringsliv.
  5. ↑ "Hogna ny Yara-topp". Dagens Næringsliv.
  6. ↑ "Yara Financial Report 2012" (PDF). Yara.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-03-11. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  7. ↑ "Den nye Sapa-sjefen: – Vi ligger godt foran planen". E24.no.
  8. ↑ "Sapa names Yara's Hogna as new ceo". Metal Bulletin.
  9. ↑ "Strength in Sapa". Aluminium International Today, page 19-20.
  10. ↑ "Sapa Opens Automotive-Focused Research Lab in Detroit". Light Metal Age.
  11. ↑ "We have local production for local markets". Metal Bulletin.
  12. ↑ "Ikea's hackable 'open platform' furniture will go on sale early next year". The Verge.
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