Advania group
Management team
Chairman of the board
Gestur G. Gestsson
Group CEO
Mikael Noaksson
Deputy Group CEO
Hege Støre
Group CFO
Lilja Brynja Skúladóttir
Head of M&A
Henrik Foyn-Laukvik
CEO Advania Sweden
Tomas Wanselius
CEO Advania Norway
Espen Hartz
CEO Advania Iceland
Ægir Már Þórisson
CEO Advania Finland
Sami Grönberg
CEO Advania Denmark
Carsten Weis
Chairman of the board
Gestur G. Gestsson
Gestur G. Gestsson is the chairman of the board. He was the Group CEO of Advania from 2009 to 2019 and has extensive management and board experience in IT and telecommunications. Previously, he was the CMO and later CTO at Vodafone Iceland, CMO of the interactive gaming company Betware and CEO of the Icelandic pioneering ISP Margmiðlun. He has served as Chairman of the Board of top-level domain registry Internet in Iceland and had the same position at Vodafone in the Faroe Islands. Gestur holds a degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Iceland.
Group CEO
Mikael Noaksson
Mikael was previously CEO of Advania Sweden, Director of Advania Sourcing and BU Manager of Advania Consulting.
Deputy Group CEO
Hege Støre
Group CFO
Lilja Brynja Skúladóttir
Previously she worked at KPMG and Icelandic Group Ltd, which is listed on the Icelandic stock exchange.
Head of M&A
Henrik Foyn-Laukvik
CEO Advania Sweden
Tomas Wanselius
He was CEO and previously Sales & Marketing Director of Caperio and CEO of OBH Nordica AB and CEO of Portal AB.
CEO Advania Norway
Espen Hartz
He joined Advania as Director of Sales and Marketing from Bluegarden AS, where he held the same position. Previously he was a sales manager at Bluegarden and Key account Manager at Atea.
CEO Advania Iceland
Ægir Már Þórisson
Previously he was Director of human resources at the company and Managing Director of consulting at Capacent.
CEO Advania Finland
Sami Grönberg
Previously the CEO and Senior partner of Vintor Oy. Before joining Vintor he held various positions within Telecom Operator.
CEO Advania Denmark
Carsten Weis
He founded Kompetera in 2004 and served as the company's CEO for 16 years. Before that, he founded and directed Commitment Data A/S and served as a key account manager at Complet/Merkantil Data.
