Sigurður Hannesson

Sigurður Hannesson is the chairman of the BOD. He was appointed to Kvika’s BOD in March 2020. He was born in 1980 and is currently the Director General of the Federation of Icelandic Industries. From 2013-2017, Sigurdur worked as a managing director of Kvika’s (previously MP Bank’s) asset management division. In 2015, Sigurdur was the Vice-Chairman of the Government Task Force on lifting of capital controls and in 2013 the Chairman of the Expert Group on household debt relief. From 2010-2013, Sigurdur worked as CEO of Jupiter fund management company, now Kvika eignastýring, and in Capital Markets at Straumur Investment Bank from 2007-2010. Sigurdur holds a DPhil degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford, a BS degree in mathematics from the University of Iceland and is a certified securities broker.

Sigurður also sits on the boards of Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Grænvangur (Green by Iceland), Reykjavík University, Skólastræti and the Icelandic Cancer Society. Sigurður owns 8,550,107 shares in the Bank through shareholding in the private limited company BBL 39 ehf., but 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.