Egil Haugsdal President of Kongsberg Maritime
Egil Haugsdal follows Geir Håøy as president of Kongsberg Maritime. Haugsdal holds extensive leadership experience from KONGSBERG. He currently heads Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies and has previous experience from KONGSBERG as executive vice president of Business Development and as president of Kongsberg Protech Systems.
Egil Haugsdal will assume his new position after a short period of overlap with Geir Håøy. As previously announced, Geir Håøy will assume the position of CEO of KONGSBERG in June 2016.
Egil has had a key role in the restructuring of the Group’s oil and gas businesses. According to CEO of KONGSBERG, Walter Qvam, Egil knows KONGSBERG and its industries very well. He is confident that his more than 30 years of industrial experience, the last 20 in KONGSBERG, makes him the right person to lead Kongsberg Maritime going forward.