Scanbio can’t keep Kvame

The 52 year-old, who will start his new role by June 1st, is currently managing director of Scanbio AS, and knows the salmon farming industry very well after 17 years in different management positions in Marine Harvest and Hydro Seafood.

Kvame started in Marine Harvest as manager of the processing plant Ryfisk at Hjelmeland, and, from 2001, was a director in Marine Harvest Norway, with full responsibility for sales and processing, logistics and planning. Since 2003, he has had several positions in Marine Harvest Europe as director and has been responsible within the same areas up until 2013. He was member of the Marine Harvest Europe management team.

“We are particularly happy to welcome Andreas Kvame as our new CEO,” Per Grieg Jnr, chairman of the board in Grieg Seafood ASA, reflects. “He will in an excellent way complement the already strong leader team now in place in the company and will participate in developing our many potentials.”

“I look forward to joining and heading up one of the leading salmon producers globally,” Kvame adds. “The company has clear ambitions about participating actively in the strong growth that the salmon farming industry is facing during the next years, and for me it is exciting to contribute to this value creation.”

The board of directors thinks Kvame will contribute to better use of production capacity, increase cost efficiency and increase the production from today’s level of 70,000 tonnes of salmon annually.

Grieg Seafood has about 650 employees in Norway, Scotland and Canada, with total sales of 2.6 billion NOK in 2014. The company farms in 4 regions in Rogaland, Finnmark, Scotland and British Columbia. They own or rent over 100 licenses and sites for salmon production. The company was started in 1992 and listed on Oslo Stock exchange in 2007 (GSF). All sales are handled by Ocean Quality, one of Europe’s leading salmon distributors. Ocean Quality has about 35 employees and is owned with 60% by the company.