Board of directors

Terje Gunnulfsen served as Chairman of the board from 2009, but has been a board member since June 2001.He is now board member. Gunnulfsen holds a Master of Science in Business administration, and has extensive management background, including marketing manager at the finance company Nevi Finans, as well as sales director and distribution director at Christianssands Bryggeri. In the period 1998-2009, Gunnulfsen was part of the Group management team at the Nordic IT service Group InfoCare, first as Group CFO, and from 2005 as Group CEO. Recent years he has served as advisor and partner, from 2011 at Boyden Global Executive Search, and from 2018 at the m&a advisory firm, Able.

Hege Aarli Klem was elected to the board in May 2019. She har worked as a lawyer in several public agencies before joining Sørlandsadvokatene DA in 2010. Since 2012, Hege has run her own law practice. She is currently a partner in Sørlandsadvokatene DA.

Liv Anne Drangsland Holst was elected to the board in 2020. She has more than 20 years of management experience in sales, customer service, communications and marketing. Liv Anne has worked in various key roles in DHL and Bisnode among others. She is now Head of Marketing and Communications at Dun & Bradstreet in Norway.

Terje holds an engineering degree in wood technology and a master's degree in sustainable production from NTNU. 

He led Forestia from 2017 to May 2022. Prior to this, Terje worked at Kongsberg Automotive AS, where he has held various management positions for 19 years in logistics and production, of which the last 4 years as Factory Manager for the factory at Raufoss.

Torbjørn Østebø was elected to both the Byggma and Huntonite boards in May 2022. Østebø has an electrical education from Stavanger Offshore Technical School and the University of Stavanger. He also has a fire constable and commander training from the Norwegian Fire School. He was employed by the technical department at Huntonit in 2005 and has also held the roles of
chief security representative and fire protection manager since 2013. In addition to working for Huntonit, he has also worked as a fire constable since 2009 and is now an emergency manager in the Kristiansand region Fire and Rescue.

Dagfinn Eriksen is a trained ambulance worker in emergency medicine, and has worked with an ambulance for around 15 years in Lillesand. He has worked at sea with emergency medicine and safety for 10 years.

Dagfinn was employed at Uldal in June 2012. Here he has held positions both as Chief Safety Officer and Industrial Safety Manager. He has been an employed representative on the Uldal board since 2016. He was also an employee representative on the Byggma Board in the period 2020 - 2022.

In 2024, he will join again as an employed representative/board member of Byggma ASA.

Kenneth is working at Forestia, where he started in 2005. He is now in his fourth term on the Forestia board as employee representative. Was elected as an employed representative on the Byggma asa board in 2024.

In addition, Kenneth sits on the Industry/Tariff Council for the Construction Industry (Fellesforbundet), where he is in his fourth term.

Kenneth works in the furniture department at Forestia, mainly with Tak-Ess.