Ingunn Svala Leifsdóttir was appointed to Kvika’s BOD in September 2021. Ingunn was born in 1976. She graduated with a BS degree in Business from the University of Iceland in 1999, with a focus on accounting and finance, and with a Cand. Oecon business degree from the same University in 2001, with a focus on accounting and management. Ingunn Svala completed the Advanced Management program (AMP) from the IESE Business School in New York in 2018. Ingunn Svala currently works as a chief executive officer at Olís. Prior to that she worked as a COO for Dohop and as an executive director of operations at Reykjavík University. Ingunn Svala also has extensive experience from the financial sector. She worked for the Kaupthing’s Resolution Committee as Chief Financial Officer from 2009 to 2011 as well as working as a Global Business Controller in Investment Banking at Kaupþing bank in 2007 to 2009. Ingunn Svala also worked within the Actavis Group PTC consolidation in 2006 to 2007 as a CFO for four subsidiaries, namely Actavis hf., Medís ehf., Actavis Group hf. and Actavis Group PTC ehf.

Ingunn Svala has extensive experience of serving as a board member and has previously served on the boards of Ósar – lifeline of health hf. and of its subsidiary, Parlogis ehf., as well as Slippurinn Akureyri and Lífís, a subsidiary of VÍS. Ingunn Svala does not own shares in the Bank and does not have interest links with major clients, competitors, or big shareholders in the sense of the corporate governance guidelines and is also independent from the bank in sense of the guidelines.