Team - Sustainability Hub Norway

At S-HUB we strive to create an environment with trust, respect and inclusiveness. We value an entrepreneurial mindset, intellectual curiosity, positivity and ownership in all of our team members. As a team, we believe in "diversity in discussion, unity in decision", while striving to reach common goals, including personal sustainability and growth. This, to succeed at what truly matters and enable the change and impact we want to see; in ourselves and in the S-HUB community as a whole.

The S-HUB Team

Katrine Sundbye
Managing Director
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Andreas Friis
Founder & Executive Chair
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Dimitar Vlahov
Content Strategy
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Katrine Sundbye is our Managing Director in S-HUB.
She is an experienced leader, with a particular edge when it comes to building new, innovative service offerings and driving complex transformations.
Katrine believes the solutions the world needs are created in the intersections; through shared knowledge and collaboration across different stakeholders and disciplines in business, education, government, and research.

Katrine holds a masters degree in Media and Communication and has broad leadership experience from a wide range of businesses, spanning 9 years in various global roles in DNV and 15 years leading teams and transformation projects for clients as a consultant in Accenture, Bekk, and NoA.

In recent years, she has been Client Director and Executive Advisor at The North Alliance (NoA), the leading Nordic group of creative agencies, where she has focused particularly on how technology and
design driven innovation are enablers for sustainable business transformation.

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Andreas Friis (b.1982) is Founder and Executive Chair of Sustainability Hub Norway. He is the intellectual architect behind the concept and works on formulating the vision and direction as well as walking the talk with the team.

Our founder Andreas has moved into a role as Executive Chair where he will focus on long-term partnerships, innovation and content for S-HUB.

Andreas is passionate about value-based leadership and how purposeful businesses can help solve big problems. He has 10+ years of experience working with sustainable business models, social enterprise, hybrid companies and sustainability - including as a serial social entrepreneur himself.

Prior to building Sustainability Hub Norway, Andreas started and managed his own social enterprise & food company called Live Arctic. He has previously served as the Director of Strategy and Business Development at Me to We in Toronto, Canada (now We.org), where he helped build and create growth for a new sustainable social enterprise in Canada and the US. He is also the co-founder of Lederforum Grenland and football club FK Grenland.

Andreas has a B.Sc and M.Sc in Economics & Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He also holds a B.A in Comparative Politics from the University of Bergen.

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Dimitar is a senior sustainability expert, working with companies to chart their path to becoming truly sustainable and/or regenerative. He co-designed and led work on Sustainable Brands' Brand Transformation Roadmap, an orientation and navigation tool that guides brands with practical next steps and recommended resources at every stage of their sustainability journeys.

Silje Arnesen Siljehaug
Temporary Project Lead
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Katarina Haugersveen
Intern

Tora Lindheim
Project Lead S-CONNECT
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Aleksandra Stasiak
Communication Intern
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Silje have just finished her master studies in leadership at BI Norwegian business School, where she wrote her thesis on Green growth, and how BI`s master’s course "Green growth" has contributed to the transition to a more sustainable Norway.
In her thesis she`s been interviewing former students on how they make use of their sustainability knowledge, what changes they have made for their companies and what success criteria and obstacles they meet in their day-to-day life and working with sustainability.

Prior to studying Green Growth she worked as a research assistant at BI , where she made an assessment report on the sustainability and viability of production of ragworms cultivated on sludge waste from land-based aquaculture, under payment from The Norwegian Research Council,

Doing her master thesis, she found that what separates the companies and the people who really succeed with sustainability as a strategy, from those who don`t, is mainly their ability to link sustainability to strategies and finance, and to have an anchoring in the top management. This is by far not the case in practice for all companies, and that is why she would like to work to make this happen.

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Tora (b. 1993) is the project manager of S-HUB's individual sustainability network, S-CONNECT. S-CONNECT is an arena where people curious about sustainable business can meet, discuss, share experiences and be inspired.
Tora is passionate about solutions with positive social, environmental and economic impacts. She believes that business can gain from aiming at positive spillover-effects beyond those of labour, a good and safe working environment, and mitigation of negative externalities.
Besides volunteering at S-CONNECT, Tora is pursuing a Master's in International Environmental Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Science. She also holds a double master's degree from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) with a specialization in Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment combined with International Management.

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Aleksandra holds a Master in Science and Civil Engineer in Chemical Technology. She also studied Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI, Oslo. She works as a Product Manager working with organic chemistry for pharmaceutical use. Motivated by finding solutions to the increasing global issue of plastic use in farming, she invented biodegradable mulches using industrial wastes as a resource for cultivating plants in a startup project. She is most passionate about Circular Economy, Sustainable Food, Biomaterials & Responsible Leadership. Aleksandra believes everyone has an impact and communication between different stakeholders is key in making responsible decisions.

The Executive Board

Marianne Condrup
Board Member and
Director of Finance

Erlend Aas Gulbrandsen
Board Member

Turi Pettersen
Board Member

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Turi Pettersen (b. 1992) is an executive board member at Sustainability Hub Norway.

Turi is a firm believer of both the need and opportunity for companies to create value beyond short term shareholder value. She sees structured work with sustainability as a prerequisite to be able to attract top talent, capital and customers in the future. In other words, sustainable value creation is a necessity to be able to thrive in an ecosystem of stakeholders that are increasing their expectations relating to both social and environmental impact of business activities.

Turi has defined her career mission as inspiring companies to solve world problems instead of causing them. She works as a Sustainability Strategy and Business Developer at the e-grocery company Oda, one of Europe's fastest growing companies. Before joining Oda she also worked 5 years as a sustainability consultant at Deloitte Norway, where was involved in various sustainability projects for many different industries in addition to both designing Deloittes sustainability services and the CFO Sustainability Network together with S-HUB.

Turi holds a double master degree from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) with a specialization in Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment in combination with International Management.

Co Founders

Cilia Holmes Indahl
Co-founder

Ingrid Helsingen Warner
Co-founder

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Cilia is Co-Founder of Sustainability Hub Norway and works on building our knowledge base on how to successfully integrate sustainability into business.

Cilia is on a quest to redesign society so that the sustainable options are not only available but more convenient than the alternative. She is a firm believer in business as a driving force for the change we need to see happen. As Youth Delegate to the Rio+20 Conference in 2012 and later trainee at the Norwegian Mission to the UN, Indahl got the opportunity to follow the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from inception to adoption in 2015.

Cilia is currently the CEO of EQT Foundation. She previously worked as the Sustainability Director for Aker BioMarine as well as a consultant through KPMG's department on Climate Change and Sustainability Services. Cilia holds a double masters degree in International Business and Sustainable Development from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and HEC Paris. For her thesis work she interviewed 20+ global leaders in sustainable business and analyzed 400+ sustainable business models. Dissecting business models is a keen hobby of hers, and her reflections on the topic can be found at here.

Cilia serves as board member of the Nordic Social Innovation Incubator, SoCentral and sits on the advisory board of EXP group, an impact investment firm.

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Ingrid is Co-Founder of Sustainability Hub Norway and works on building our community and creating the spaces for meaningful conversations.

Ingrid is committed to building the global village where voices are heard, people inspired and the right people know each other to handle the complex challenges that our world faces. A partner in Leidar Norway, she supports internationally-minded leaders and companies with their positioning and thought leadership activities. She profiles clients across traditional media through interviews with all levels of media and at global forums such as the World Economic Forum. Ingrid has started Minds of Oslo that gathers curious and passionate people for monthly dinners in Oslo, Council and Circles for conversations that matter.

Before joining Leidar, Ingrid was an account manager at Weber Shandwick in Switzerland and was seconded to Equinor where she served as the company’s regional communications manager for Africa and Latin America. Ingrid holds a BA in Politics and International Studies from The University of Warwick, UK and is the University’s alumni representative in Norway while learning Arabic.