Linn Nærup Børke graduated with a degree in Economics from CBS (Copenhagen Business School) and SSE (Stockholm School of Economics) and started her career in J.P. Morgan in London and Nordic Capital in Scandinavia, before joining Askeladden & Co in 2018 where she is currently a partner. Together with their entrepreneurs they build adventures, which to date includes companies like Cutters, Dr.Dropin, Paint’n Sip, Squeeze, Verd Funeral and olio.

Trond Lund is an expert within agriculture and sustainable fertiliser production. He seeks to find solutions which are both good for the farmer and for the planet, and works worldwide as Head of Business Development for N2 Applied. He is a graduate (MSc Materials Technology) from NTH in Trondheim in 1994. He has more than 20 years of experience within industrial gases, oil and gas, telecom and food tech. He has held management positions in Yara Praxair, FORCE Technology, Telia and DNV GL Presafe.

Roland Pezzutto is a Principal and his primary responsibilities at Marlin include deal qualification, conducting due diligence, transaction execution and portfolio monitoring. Prior to joining Marlin, he worked at Investcorp where he focused on private equity investments, including carve-outs, leveraged buyouts, add-on acquisitions and exits across a broad range of sectors and geographies. Prior thereto, Mr. Pezzutto worked as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and public market transactions. He earned an M.Sc. in International Business from HEC School of Management in Paris, France and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Università Cattolica in Milan, Italy.

Ingjerd Røynås works mainly with mergers and acquisitions and in questions related to corporate law and contract law. Røynås has experience in assisting industrial and financial players, as well as private equity funds. A large part of her work is cross-border, focusing on international business transactions. Ingjerd Røynås is an experienced team leader and has broad experience in coordinating transactions. Her practice involves transactions in a variety of industries, including industry, technology, retail and oil services.

Rikke Eckhoff Høvding joined the Norwegian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (NVCA) as CEO in 2015. She has previously worked at Argentum Asset Management, at Burson-Marsteller and as a reporter and editor for the venture capital and private equity journal unquote. She is a board member of think tank Civita, newspaper Mediehuset Minerva AS, and the network “Kvinner i Frontfinans” which works to promote more women in front office positions in the financial industry. She holds an MSc Management with Finance from University of Bath, and a BA (Hons) Politics with International Studies from Warwick University.

Magnus Tornling is Partner, Head of Norway and Head of EQT's Global Industrial Tech Sector Team. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Magnus spent twelve years in the Corporate Finance department of ABG Sundal Collier in Oslo, lastly as the Co-Head of Investment Banking and Head of Equity Capital Markets. Magnus holds an M.Sc in finance from the Norwegian School of Management.

Pete Witte is an Associate Director in EY’s private equity group, leading EY’s research and analysis initiatives in the PE space. He manages a global team of industry analysts to produce insights and thought leadership designed to keep industry practitioners informed about topics and trends across a range of dimensions, including fundraising, structuring, acquisitions, value creation, and the emerging markets. Pete joined EY in 2008 from Morgan Stanley, where he was an equities trader in the firm’s Venture Capital Services Group, working with VC funds and their Limited Partners to provide liquidity management. Prior to that, he was an Associate at Deutsche Bank.