Speakers 2025
Inge Berg
Inge established his first salmon site in Vesterålen in 1989. Today, Nordlaks is one of the industry's most well-managed companies and a cornerstone business with over 800 employees. From its headquarters in Stokmarknes, it operates broodstock facilities, land-based smolt facilities, farming at traditional and exposed locations (Havfarmen), well boats, slaughter facilities, fillet production, sales and distribution.
Dag Sletmo
The common thread in Dag's professional career is fish & finance. He has been a senior advisor in the seafood department at DNB for many years. Before DNB, he worked at Cermaq and ABG Sundal Collier, also focusing on fish & finance.
Jan Olav Langeland
Jan Olav has studied marketing and economics at the School of Marketing in Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics. Since 2020, he has been a proactive CEO of Salmon Group, the network that brings together 38 small and medium-sized producers of salmon and trout in Norway.
Johann Martin Krüger
Johann Martin Krüger is fittingly a Lofoten native from Vesterålen and serves as an advisor for business policy and communication at Sjømatbedriftene. He is a trained lawyer from UiT, specializing in fisheries management, and is, until the election, the second alternate to the Norwegian Parliament from Nordland.
Jesse Trushenski
Jesse is the R&D Director for Nordly Holding and oversees a variety of research initiatives across the group’s interests in aquaculture. Internationally recognized for her work in fish nutrition, she dedicates much of her time to the growth and evolution of Polarfeed. Jesse has held numerous leadership roles addressing public and private aquaculture in the USA and continues to advise the American aquaculture group, Riverence, as its Chief Science Officer.
Jim-Roger Nordly
Jim-Roger started small as a feed agent and vaccinator in the late 1980s, but has gradually built up a number of aquaculture companies in nutrition, pharmaceuticals, R&D, and production. Among these are Polarfeed, ACD Pharma, and Paradigm Aquatic, in addition to STIM, in which he has retained a significant ownership stake after its sale to Summa Equity earlier this year.
Alf-Helge Aarskog
Alf-Helge is an experienced leader in the seafood industry, with previous roles as CEO of Mowi (2010–2019) and Lerøy Seafood Group (2009–2010), where he contributed to significant growth and innovation. He is now, among other things, a business developer at Eide Fjordbruk, where since January 2023 he has been working to develop the company and their sustainable technology project, Watermoon.
Ketil Rykhus
Ketil has been the public relations contact at Sinkaberg AS since 2020. After ten years at the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) in Brussels, where his work included fish health, food hygiene, and international trade, he returned to Norway in 2009. For the next ten years, he worked on fish health and welfare in his own company and at Sjømat Norge.
Asbjørn Dyrkorn Løland
Asbjørn is a trained fish health biologist from the University of Bergen (UiB) in 2010 and has experience from EWOS, PHARMAQ Analytiq, and Akvahub, where research and development have been a recurring focus. At Bue, he is the head of R&D and is responsible for generating, disseminating, and contributing to the implementation of knowledge within the company’s organization.
Stian Nylund
Stian has over 20 years of experience in molecular characterization of pathogens associated with disease in aquaculture, with a primary focus on characterizing disease agents in salmonids. He has also worked on optimizing technical solutions for biological performance in closed salmon production at sea and is currently engaged in fish health and research at STIM.
Ronja Athammer
Ronja is a civil engineer in aquaculture from the University of Bergen (UiB). In 2023, she completed her master's thesis in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Research, focusing on salmon capacity in simulated waves, which led to a summer internship and later a permanent position at the offshore aquaculture company Utror. She now works as a project engineer, primarily focusing on biological challenges in project development.
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Richard Torrissen
Richard's background spans the intersection of biology, biotechnology, and commercial aquaculture, with key expertise in CaSR stimulation, smolt transfer strategies, freshwater management, and fish welfare in RAS and hybrid systems. He has extensively worked on leveraging CaSR knowledge to improve mineral regulation and proactively reduce the risk of nephrocalcinosis in Atlantic salmon.
Mathias Andersen
Mathias has a background as a veterinarian at both Marin Helse and Åkerblå before joining STIM in the spring of 2021. At STIM he quickly took on responsibility for overseeing various projects and ongoing research, primarily focused on smoltification. Now, his work centers on bacteriophages, serving as Commercial Manager at ACD Pharma.
Björgolfur Hàvardsson
Björgolfur (aka Bøggi) holds a master's degree in aquaculture biology and has worked in the aquaculture industry for nearly 40 years, consistently focusing on innovation and implementing new solutions. He is now a business developer at AquaCloud, a company that collects vast amounts of data from over half of Norwegian production and makes these datasets available for analysis and faster insights.
Eduardo Hofmann
Eduardo Hofmann, a veterinarian by training, has served as the General Manager of STIM Chile since December 2019, bringing 15 years of experience within the company to lead its operations in Puerto Montt and Santiago. He oversees STIM’s efforts in providing innovative aquaculture solutions, and drives initiatives focused on reducing antibiotic use and promoting sustainable salmon farming.
Simon MacKenzie
Simon MacKenzie is a professor at Stirling University where he is the Head of the Institute of Aquaculture. Throughout his career to date his major academic interest has become to explore how immunity has evolved and recently how environmental conditions, particularly temperature, modulate the plasticity of the immune response.
Anders Milde Gjendemsjø
Anders is a partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and collaborates with a diverse array of clients worldwide in the maritime and marine industries, offering guidance on crucial strategic decisions. Anders is particularly renowned for his data-driven approach to addressing key strategic challenges and enhancing operational performance.
Felix Scholz
Felix has extensive experience as a histopathologist and veterinarian working in all aspects of fish health and welfare management in commercial aquaculture, aquatic research facilities, aquaria and wild fisheries in Ireland and abroad, with a wide range of freshwater and marine fish species and culture systems. He has worked as Head of clinical services for FishVet Group Ireland, then PHARMAQ Analytiq Ireland, before joining STIM in 2024, where he oversees the veterinary team in the UK and Ireland.
Fredrikke Nyberg Formo
Fredrikke holds a Master's degree in Biology and Aquaculture from Nord University and has worked for the past seven years at the analysis company Patogen, the last couple of years as a Senior Fish Health Advisor.
Stian Lernes
Stian Lernes was introduced to aquaculture from a young age, growing up in a family business, R. Lernes AS. He later served as an operations manager at both Måsøval Fish Farming and Lerøy. Prior to his current position as Regional Sales Manager at Patogen, Stian spent three years as a customer manager at STIM.